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Lead vs lead free - what did you use last?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2365144" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Great feedback and stories so far. I too am surprised at how prevalent lead free is at this point…I'm pretty sure most of us on this thread aren't from California haha, we're using them because they evidently work, not because we have to. </p><p></p><p>I will say, while I've never heard of anyone actually getting heavy metal toxicity from eating game hunted with lead bullets and do not worry about it, I do also figure to myself that lead is proven to be very bad for the nervous system. I couldn't care less about it's effect on scavengers eating gut piles, and that's not from a place of indifference or any anti-environmental sentiment: those critters probably don't live longer than a decade in nature tops! A few lead fragments in their food is almost certainly the least of their problems! But in creatures like us that can push a century if we're especially lucky, accumulated heavy metal can be a real concern…and again, not worried about it, but also seems wise to not risk ingesting it for no good reason. I couldn't have cared less a few years ago but now I've got 4 little kids and Lord willing they're gonna like venison! I feel good about them eating food that doesn't have any lead in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2365144, member: 109862"] Great feedback and stories so far. I too am surprised at how prevalent lead free is at this point…I’m pretty sure most of us on this thread aren’t from California haha, we’re using them because they evidently work, not because we have to. I will say, while I’ve never heard of anyone actually getting heavy metal toxicity from eating game hunted with lead bullets and do not worry about it, I do also figure to myself that lead is proven to be very bad for the nervous system. I couldn’t care less about it’s effect on scavengers eating gut piles, and that’s not from a place of indifference or any anti-environmental sentiment: those critters probably don’t live longer than a decade in nature tops! A few lead fragments in their food is almost certainly the least of their problems! But in creatures like us that can push a century if we’re especially lucky, accumulated heavy metal can be a real concern…and again, not worried about it, but also seems wise to not risk ingesting it for no good reason. I couldn’t have cared less a few years ago but now I’ve got 4 little kids and Lord willing they’re gonna like venison! I feel good about them eating food that doesn’t have any lead in it. [/QUOTE]
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