I switched a few years ago for a couple different reasons. First, I had terrible results with ELDX bullets separating and going wild places inside an animal, often ruining meat. When I started handloading, I looked around for monos and landed on Hammers because they got good reviews, were unbelievable easy to dial in, and are a local company. I've since shot a couple dozen animals with them at ranges between 10 and 650 yards, loaded them for friends, and shot out to 1000 on steel. I won't shoot them at game past 650-700 because of the low BCs, but I don't really need to either where I hunt. Have yet to see a bullet not perform perfectly.
The second reason is that I was also in the habit of putting game cams on gut piles and carcasses to monitor lions and wolves on our family ranch. I got far more footage of golden eagles than any other species except for magpies, of course. There's a wealth of data coming out of Western MT in particular on lead toxicity for eagles and other raptors, and I don't mind doing my part to prevent that if there's no impact to my lethality on game. I still shoot lead on pheasants and grouse, but I'm not leaving any part of them in the field to be ingested. Just .02 from a libtard PETA lover...