This year I shot a nice eating spike at 10yrds. Pass-through with the ancient $0.17, 70g Speer, from a 16" AR topped with a green-dot Romeo, liquified the boiler room with zero meat damage, but left no blood trail in the 30 feet it ran...
Nice new fad. Just remember the great lead hoax. In California you may not use lead. Death by a thousand cuts. Anti-gun Democrats love copper bullets...for now.
My point is political not scientific. I have shot all the alternatives and will continue with some. I can afford 10ga guns and tungsten shot but I do not need them.
While the left put another nail in your gun rights coffin you can feel better knowing you can still use more expensive alternatives. Of course many cannot, and that is the point and their objective.
Don't feed the beast.
100yd deer with a scatter gun.
Nope.