Lead filling in tooth 🦷

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Cooked up some homemade venison breakfast sausage this morning and felt something stick in my back tooth. Turned out to be a small piece of lead from the 6CM Eldm that I used on the deer. Though I'm not a person against lead bullets, I don't like it stuck in my tooth or swallowing it. I've pretty much exclusively gone to Hammers for all my hunting rounds. This Springfield Waypoint 6CM was picked up as a quick and easy button shooter. I bought factory ammo to get the brass and break in.

Hammers or not, in my opinion, this is another reason to run mono's.
 

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Cooked up some homemade venison breakfast sausage this morning and felt something stick in my back tooth. Turned out to be a small piece of lead from the 6CM Eldm that I used on the deer. Though I'm not a person against lead bullets, I don't like it stuck in my tooth or swallowing it. I've pretty much exclusively gone to Hammers for all my hunting rounds. This Springfield Waypoint 6CM was picked up as a quick and easy button shooter. I bought factory ammo to get the brass and break in.

Hammers or not, in my opinion, this is another reason to run mono's.

I use monos and jacketed lead but ........ when it comes down to biting into a piece of projectile; I'd rather bite a soft piece of lead than a sharp piece of copper. Sheared off petals can end up anywhere. I've bitten a lot of lead pellets when I was an avid pheasant hunter. Never hurt a tooth.
 
I use monos and jacketed lead but ........ when it comes down to biting into a piece of projectile; I'd rather bite a soft piece of lead than a sharp piece of copper. Sheared off petals can end up anywhere. I've bitten a lot of lead pellets when I was an avid pheasant hunter. Never hurt a tooth.
I agree. The lead pieces tend to be way smaller and most you probably don't even realize they are there. I bit into the shank of a 70 grain HH a couple years ago. Thought it was a piece of bone. It was in a shoulder roast and was small enough to undetected!
 
I have only bitten down on lead and steel in wild game. I will take lead any day to bite on in my hunting food than steel. Funny thing for me was I had to take lead tests for my job for 27yrs. Lots of lead semi wadcutters, 22LR, and constantly getting face full of smoke on training days. Never wore a respirator, and only one year of the non-lead primers. Nope never had an increase in my count. I think lead is dangerous but no more so than the smog that hangs over most cities and I don't see cities being bashed left and right by hippies on an agenda.
 
Cooked up some homemade venison breakfast sausage this morning and felt something stick in my back tooth. Turned out to be a small piece of lead from the 6CM Eldm that I used on the deer. Though I'm not a person against lead bullets, I don't like it stuck in my tooth or swallowing it. I've pretty much exclusively gone to Hammers for all my hunting rounds. This Springfield Waypoint 6CM was picked up as a quick and easy button shooter. I bought factory ammo to get the brass and break in.

Hammers or not, in my opinion, this is another reason to run mono's.

I have no aversion to consuming small amounts of lead, provided they don't have sharp edges……and I swallow them!

Lead consumption through body perforation 🙀 does however, offend the heck out of me! 😉😂 memtb
 
I agree. The lead pieces tend to be way smaller and most you probably don't even realize they are there. I bit into the shank of a 70 grain HH a couple years ago. Thought it was a piece of bone. It was in a shoulder roast and was small enough to undetected!

Another reason that I prefer exits on my game! 😉 memtb
 
I use monos and jacketed lead but ........ when it comes down to biting into a piece of projectile; I'd rather bite a soft piece of lead than a sharp piece of copper. Sheared off petals can end up anywhere. I've bitten a lot of lead pellets when I was an avid pheasant hunter. Never hurt a tooth.
You would love Flint water. Lol
 
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