If ever a choice, lead or steel, always pick lead.

Steel, quite frankly, sucks. It's a scam to get hunters to pay more money. There's nothing environmental about it, or safe. Just a ploy to bring in more money.

Lead has more knockdown power.

Steel also ricochets off trees, lead doesn't do it as much. Lead is safer, in wooded areas.

#6 steel is almost too light to use on ducks. WAY too light to use on turkeys.