S&W Forum - Lead Bullet Reloading Safety

[Freischütz]

If you're interested check out the discussion.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/reloading/174946-health-safety-when-reloading-lead-bullets.html

[alamogunr]

More common sense than I expected. Not a single post that hewed to the political/bureaucratic line. I think we need to realize that, even though the health hazards are overblown, if we don't take the political hazards seriously, we may be an endangered species.

John
W.TN

[steg]

About 10 years ago my Doctor and I were talking about shooting, yeah he was a shooter also, and I was telling him about casting boolets and reloading them. He got a concerned look on his face and said "dont you do alot of soldering on your electronics job", and I answered that I'm usually handling solder most of the day. he asked if I wanted him to check me out for lead in my system, I said ok and he did bloodwork, a few days later he called me with the results and they were completly normal, no problems at all. Now this was just my results, and I haven't any idea how lead would affect anyone else, but it is easy to check it out............steg

[Recluse]

Glad to see good thinking, level heads and intelligence on the S&W forum. I'm a huge S&W fan and would hate to end up cussing their forum. . . :)

My doc's husband is a big-time shooter and reloader, so she likes to check me out for lead levels whenever she catches me in her office--usually cowering underneath the examination table.

Only once have I ever had high lead levels--and we attributed that to a stretch where I did a LOT of shooting indoors, LOTS of reloading and more to the point, brass tumbling, and I didn't bother washing the hands nearly as much as I should have during all of that.

So I put a new bucket of hand-cleaner in the shop by the sink, bought a half-dozen boxes of one-time-use vinyl gloves for handling the brass when sorting it for tumbling in the Thumler's, and stayed away from the indoor range for six months.

During that same period, I doubled my intake of vitamin C, drank more water, and continued to cast as normal.

Six months later, my lead levels were at the LOWEST they'd ever been.

I attribute the levels more to indoor shooting and handling the fired brass than I do casting boolits.

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