Off the charts with this claim.
Posted on 03/31/2008 12:42:01 PM PDT by neverdem
I think you are partly right. Most hunting ammo is jacketed and not solid lead and does not come apart like that. I’m thinking the particals are more likely bone...
Let them eat cake!
I didn’t think of that! If you twiddle the CT knobs, bone could be made to saturate like that and appear to be very dense, you are right!
Somebody needs to challenge this guy on fact and technique.
“Hunters have alternatives to lead, he said. “I’m a big hunter. I’ve already purchased four boxes of copper bullets to next year,” Cornatzer said. “
No, you haven’t. You may have purchased copper jacketed or copper encapsulated bullets, though. Neither of which will guarantee that you won’t have lead in the wound area of the deer.
Send it to me.
oh no - the line forms here LOL.....chicken fried with gravy
No bird shot in the meat.
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They are making solid copper bullets now but mostly for pistols in indoor ranges. They do have copper rifle ammo, mostly for the same application. The solid lead pistol bullets were leaving vaporized lead in the air of the indoor ranges.
I don’t think it would be very good for hunting though... too light for a good balistic cooeffecent in long range shooting...
The amount of lead showing up in those venison packages would lead me to believe the poor deer was shot with a gatling gun and no one bothered to remove the slugs. I find it far fetched to believe that a deer felled with a single clean shot is riddled with lead fragments particularly if the wound area was excised.
Well....why don’t they start ‘clubbing’ the deer to death like they do to seals?
Oooppps.....silly me....forgot deer can run.
pinger
No lead in my venison, just 3 or 4 surgically sharp blades which are removed to be used again. (I recycle my game harvest equipment.)
Off the charts with this claim.
Liberals sure like using junk science to promote their radical agendas. The meat around the bullet entrance/exit wound is discarded.
I switched from guns to bows a years back ( it just wasn’t a challenge ) and thus am lead free. Hooray!
Bite the bullet: lead poisoning after ingestion of 206 lead bullets.
McNutt TK, Chambers-Emerson J, Dethlefsen M, Shah R.
Florida Poison Information Center, Tampa General Hospital, 33601, USA.
Vet Hum Toxicol. 2001 Oct;43(5):288-9.
A 45-y-o male with a history of schizophrenia was admitted to a local VA psychiatric unit. Five days later, endoscopy due to abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding and blood hemoglobin of 5.6 g/dL revealed bullets in the stomach. On subsequent radiograph, > 50 bullets were visualized in the stomach and intestines. Poison Center recommendations included whole bowel irrigation and a blood lead level. After poor results with gastrointestinal decontamination and a repeat radiograph showing > 100 cartridges, surgical intervention was considered but not performed due to perceived risk of bullet detonation from electrocautery. The blood lead was reported as 391 mcg/dL. Calcium EDTA therapy was initiated, followed by aggressive gastrointestinal decontamination. Four days of whole bowel irrigation facilitated passage of 206 cartridges over the next 10 days. The patient was discharged on a 14-day course of 600 mg Succimer tid to treat the bone lead deposits and blood lead level of 49 mcg/dl. An outpatient visit 6 w later showed the blood lead level had dropped to 24 mcg/dl. Aggressive gastrointestinal decontamination and calcium EDTA and Succimer administration successfully treated an ingestion lead bullets and the resulting lead poisoning.
I think the problem would be with children consuming it.
This guy is apparently unfamiliar with the concept of bioavailability of metals.
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