I know, most of us started out with a 22 and lead bullets for squirrel and other pests. That's not considered an issue anywhere as the typical 22long or long rifle creates muzzle energy, and 50 yard impact energy probably in the range of 70* the body weight of your typical red squirrel.
What im wondering is the thought processes you went through when you decided to switch to lead bullets from those nifty "efficient" expanding jacketed copper deer slayers in your rifle.
Its just that my monolithic rifle ammo and my fmj make my rifles feel very very enjoyable and "proven" and make them carrying them in the field very reassuring, but just sitting at the bench holding a dummy round of a 170 grain cast bullet in my .308 it makes me feel very naked.
Like the time I was tracking a deer and had 10 coyotes watching me from the shadows and all I had was flashlight and knife.
But yet 8x57 dummy round with a big 2-214 grain flat point just feels like im throwing baseball bats down range. Any explanation other then good advertising on the part of ammunition companies?