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Lead poisoning from eating game shot with lead core bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity" data-source="post: 1937858" data-attributes="member: 112048"><p>I grew up in a country household with seven brothers and sisters. We had three freezers, and each winter we butchered and packaged about 800 pounds of venison as rump roasts, steaks, filets and mixed with pork to make sausage. All the whitetail deer were killed with jacketed lead bullets made by Winchester, Western, Peters and Remington. We leavened our diet with turkey, dove and an occasional varmint killed with lead shot. We melted lead from car batteries on our kitchen stove to make sinkers for trot lines and usually gathered together in the kitchen to drink coffee and talk while we did it, lead fumes and all. I worked for Texas Nuclear as a welder for three years making source heads for radioisotopes and operated a lead smelter to fill the heads. I've used more lead solder in my shop than I could guess. My father was the wisest man I ever knew, and died at 98. My older siblings all made it into their 70s and 80s. I will be 77 in a few months, I teach engineering and physics, and am physically active. My point is that I suspect I have had more exposure to lead than 99.9% of the population. While not scientific, the family group sample including my mother and father extended over 50 years, and is significant. None of us are/were cognitively impaired, or showed any disabilities atypical of normal aging. For what it is worth.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity, post: 1937858, member: 112048"] I grew up in a country household with seven brothers and sisters. We had three freezers, and each winter we butchered and packaged about 800 pounds of venison as rump roasts, steaks, filets and mixed with pork to make sausage. All the whitetail deer were killed with jacketed lead bullets made by Winchester, Western, Peters and Remington. We leavened our diet with turkey, dove and an occasional varmint killed with lead shot. We melted lead from car batteries on our kitchen stove to make sinkers for trot lines and usually gathered together in the kitchen to drink coffee and talk while we did it, lead fumes and all. I worked for Texas Nuclear as a welder for three years making source heads for radioisotopes and operated a lead smelter to fill the heads. I've used more lead solder in my shop than I could guess. My father was the wisest man I ever knew, and died at 98. My older siblings all made it into their 70s and 80s. I will be 77 in a few months, I teach engineering and physics, and am physically active. My point is that I suspect I have had more exposure to lead than 99.9% of the population. While not scientific, the family group sample including my mother and father extended over 50 years, and is significant. None of us are/were cognitively impaired, or showed any disabilities atypical of normal aging. For what it is worth..... [/QUOTE]
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