PELLETS NO TOXIC - USA
Title 50 → Chapter I → Subchapter B → Part 20 - December 19, 2014
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(j)(1) While possessing loose shot for muzzle loading or shotshells containing other than the following approved shot types.
Approved shot type* - Percent composition by weight - Field testing device**
Bismuth - tin 97 bismuth, and 3 tin - Hot Shot®***
Iron (steel) - iron and carbon - Magnet or Hot Shot®.
Iron-tungsten - any proportion of tungsten, and ≥1 iron - Magnet or Hot Shot®.
Iron-tungsten-nickel - ≥1 iron, any proportion of tungsten, and up to 40 nickel - Magnet or Hot Shot®.
Copper-clad iron - 84 to 56.59 iron core, with copper cladding up to 44.1 of the shot mass - Magnet or Hot Shot®
Tungsten-bronze - 51.1 tungsten, 44.4 copper, 3.9 tin, and 0.6 iron, or 60 tungsten, 35.1 copper, 3.9 tin, and 1 iron - Rare Earth Magnet.
Tungsten-iron-copper-nickel - 40-76 tungsten, 10-37 iron, 9-16 copper, and 5-7 nickel - Hot Shot® or Rare Earth Magnet.
Tungsten-matrix - 95.9 tungsten, 4.1 polymer - Hot Shot®.
Tungsten-polymer - 95.5 tungsten, 4.5 Nylon 6 or 11 - Hot Shot®.
Tungsten-tin-iron - any proportions of tungsten and tin, and ≥1 iron - Magnet or Hot Shot®.
Tungsten-tin-bismuth - any proportions of tungsten, tin, and bismuth - Rare Earth Magnet.
Tungsten-tin-iron-nickel - 65 tungsten, 21.8 tin, 10.4 iron, and 2.8 nickel - Magnet.
Tungsten-iron-polymer - 41.5-95.2 tungsten, 1.5-52.0 iron, and 3.5-8.0 fluoropolymer - Rare Earth Magnet or Hot Shot®.
* Coatings of copper, nickel, tin, zinc, zinc chloride, zinc chrome, and fluoropolymers on approved nontoxic shot types also are approved.
** The information in the “Field Testing Device” column is strictly informational, not regulatory.
*** The “HOT*SHOT” field testing device is from Stream Systems of Concord, CA.
(2) Each approved shot type must contain less than 1 percent residual lead (see §20.134).
(3) This shot type restriction applies to the taking of ducks, geese (including brant), swans, coots (Fulica americana), and any other species that make up aggregate bag limits with these migratory game birds during concurrent seasons in areas described in §20.108 as nontoxic shot zones.
[38 FR 22021, Aug. 15, 1973, as amended at 38 FR 22896, Aug. 27, 1973; 44 FR 2599, Jan. 12, 1979; 45 FR 70275, Oct. 23, 1980; 49 FR 4079, Feb. 2, 1984; 52 FR 27364, July 21, 1987; 53 FR 24290, June 28, 1988; 60 FR 64, Jan. 3, 1995; 60 FR 43316, Aug. 18, 1995; 61 FR 42494, Aug. 15, 1996; 62 FR 43447, Aug. 13, 1997; 64 FR 29804, June 3, 1999; 64 FR 32780, June 17, 1999; 64 FR 45405, Aug. 19, 1999; 64 FR 71237, Dec. 20, 1999; 65 FR 53940, Sept. 6, 2000; 66 FR 742, Jan. 4, 2001; 66 FR 32265, June 14, 2001; 68 FR 1392, Jan. 10, 2003; 69 FR 48165, Aug. 9, 2004; 70 FR 49196, Aug. 23, 2005; 71 FR 4297, Jan. 26, 2006; 71 FR 45986, Aug. 10, 2006; 72 FR 46407, Aug. 20, 2007; 73 FR 65277, Nov. 3, 2008; 73 FR 70914, Nov. 24, 2008; 74 FR 53671, Oct. 20, 2009; 74 FR 57615, Nov. 9, 2009; 78 FR 65575, Nov. 1, 2013]