I am age 68. I grew up with "Lead paint" "Lead water pipes" "Mercury tooth fillings" "Lead shot shells" where you spit out pellets on pheasants and ducks during dinner. Still alive and kicking by the Grace of God and not Man.
I'm EPA certified as a lead abatement contractor. According to the EPA training course and books, ingesting lead only really effects kids under 6. The lead that is ingested has to be under 2 microns in size. The corona virus is 3 microns. To get lead ground that fine, it has to go thru very concerted grinding done in an industrial machine that is used to make paint pigments. Any lead that fragments that small on gunshot meat would be too small of an amount for poisoning and would not travel outside of the direct wound cavity (there is no momentum). So if you cut out the meat in the customary 3'' radius around the bullet hole, there is really zero chance of you ingesting lead that is capable of poisoning you. That said, even if you eat it and you are over the age of 6, your body will not absorb enough lead into your bones to cause lead poisoning unless you have some ultra, super rare, freak health condition. Not to mention, it takes quite a bit. People need to understand how lead poisoning works. The body can mistake lead for calcium and absorb it into the bone marrow. This only happens in anywhere near sufficient quantities in children under the age of 6 because their growing bodies are just sucking up as much calcium as they can get. Anyhow, beyond that, there has never been one iota of evidence presented to the public of a condor, a goose, or a duck that has died from lead poisoning that was from lead shot. Not once. It is scientifically extremely unlikely that it has ever happened. What we do have evidence of is some ironic photos of condors dining on peeling lead paint chips in the vicinity of where condors had been found dead with lead poisoning. The buildings in the photos are abondoned federal government buildings that are still owned by the federal government. Eating any lead over 2 microns just passes harmlessly thru your system. There is an enormous amount of native lead in the ground as galena or in quartz deposits throughout the world and in the US, and is in areas where all the drinking water is coming from springs, and in many instances is tested as the safest, and cleanest drinking water in the US. Lead is something the UN latched onto in the seventies as way to ban civilian small arms ammunition and they have been pushing this bs since then. Blanket lead ammunition bans have been shut down in the federal courts a handful of times because they can offer no proof. So they ban it for hunting instead, which is ridiculous and any fish and game dept that does that should have everyone in it that is responsible for that kind of politcal corruption, fired. I am so sick of fighting this. Every shooter needs to get informed on this.
Doesn't hurt anything people have been shooting game with lead since they invented the first firearm saying that the meat isn't safe is just ridiculous
@@30-06john I'm a newcomer to your channel I believe the first video I saw was the one on what the oldtimers used for a bear rifle and I enjoy your content and I'm sure that you'll agree with me that most of the oldtimers basically had one rifle and they used it for everything any high power rifle is better than none when it comes to a disagreement with old Ephraim is there calibers I'd rather have for such a encounter absolutely but if All I happen to have at the time is a ought six or even the venerable old wimpy 30 wcf I'll take it as you well know it's shot placement both of those cartridges have had to do the job before and I for one wouldn't feel under gunned with the ought six its my go to caliber for my hunting pronghorn,deer and elk always felt it was very adequate don't know that I would prefer it for the big bears but like I said if that's what I had I'd be damned glad of that verses nothing
@@30-06john I see and accept your point. We did our best to cut away bird shot shot up areas, found a few pellets over the years at the dinner table. The last deer I shot in the brain, happy little deer along the river bank never knew what happened. I take prions seriously, CWD is now in Minnesota. There was a prion generating site "insert" in the the ..... and consequently in the ....... ..... .
Well, some states require lead free ammo for hunting since some condors eat the animal remains and digest lead. Shooting ranges usually have some type of lead recovery work that they recover the lead every several years. But just a few shots missing game is not a problem. Thanks for watching!
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I am age 68. I grew up with "Lead paint" "Lead water pipes" "Mercury tooth fillings" "Lead shot shells" where you spit out pellets on pheasants and ducks during dinner. Still alive and kicking by the Grace of God and not Man.
Yep, they are pushing this just to restrict hunting and guns! Thanks for watching!
I'm EPA certified as a lead abatement contractor. According to the EPA training course and books, ingesting lead only really effects kids under 6. The lead that is ingested has to be under 2 microns in size. The corona virus is 3 microns. To get lead ground that fine, it has to go thru very concerted grinding done in an industrial machine that is used to make paint pigments. Any lead that fragments that small on gunshot meat would be too small of an amount for poisoning and would not travel outside of the direct wound cavity (there is no momentum). So if you cut out the meat in the customary 3'' radius around the bullet hole, there is really zero chance of you ingesting lead that is capable of poisoning you. That said, even if you eat it and you are over the age of 6, your body will not absorb enough lead into your bones to cause lead poisoning unless you have some ultra, super rare, freak health condition. Not to mention, it takes quite a bit. People need to understand how lead poisoning works. The body can mistake lead for calcium and absorb it into the bone marrow. This only happens in anywhere near sufficient quantities in children under the age of 6 because their growing bodies are just sucking up as much calcium as they can get. Anyhow, beyond that, there has never been one iota of evidence presented to the public of a condor, a goose, or a duck that has died from lead poisoning that was from lead shot. Not once. It is scientifically extremely unlikely that it has ever happened. What we do have evidence of is some ironic photos of condors dining on peeling lead paint chips in the vicinity of where condors had been found dead with lead poisoning. The buildings in the photos are abondoned federal government buildings that are still owned by the federal government. Eating any lead over 2 microns just passes harmlessly thru your system. There is an enormous amount of native lead in the ground as galena or in quartz deposits throughout the world and in the US, and is in areas where all the drinking water is coming from springs, and in many instances is tested as the safest, and cleanest drinking water in the US.
Lead is something the UN latched onto in the seventies as way to ban civilian small arms ammunition and they have been pushing this bs since then. Blanket lead ammunition bans have been shut down in the federal courts a handful of times because they can offer no proof. So they ban it for hunting instead, which is ridiculous and any fish and game dept that does that should have everyone in it that is responsible for that kind of politcal corruption, fired. I am so sick of fighting this. Every shooter needs to get informed on this.
Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching!
Good stuff sir
Glad you found it useful, and thanks for watching!
Doesn't hurt anything people have been shooting game with lead since they invented the first firearm saying that the meat isn't safe is just ridiculous
Yep, these groups pushing for this are just antihunting and antigun! Thanks for watching!
@@30-06john I'm a newcomer to your channel I believe the first video I saw was the one on what the oldtimers used for a bear rifle and I enjoy your content and I'm sure that you'll agree with me that most of the oldtimers basically had one rifle and they used it for everything any high power rifle is better than none when it comes to a disagreement with old Ephraim is there calibers I'd rather have for such a encounter absolutely but if All I happen to have at the time is a ought six or even the venerable old wimpy 30 wcf I'll take it as you well know it's shot placement both of those cartridges have had to do the job before and I for one wouldn't feel under gunned with the ought six its my go to caliber for my hunting pronghorn,deer and elk always felt it was very adequate don't know that I would prefer it for the big bears but like I said if that's what I had I'd be damned glad of that verses nothing
Most people can't chew lead shot they spit it out at least I always do
Yep, added I added that part in to show that some people are eating lead from shotgun shot animals with no problems. Thanks for watching!
Lead is the least of deer hunters problems. CWD will probably kill deer hunting.
A very legitimate concern. I wonder now and again what is really in meat sold in the supermarket.
These groups are using this drummed up lead issue to restrict hunting and guns, health has nothing to do about it! Thanks for watching!
@@30-06john I see and accept your point. We did our best to cut away bird shot shot up areas, found a few pellets over the years at the dinner table. The last deer I shot in the brain, happy little deer along the river bank never knew what happened. I take prions seriously, CWD is now in Minnesota. There was a prion generating site "insert" in the the ..... and consequently in the ....... ..... .
Luckily, we do not have CWD in Alaska.
What about the shots i have missed. Wouldn't the lost ammunition harm our ecosystem?
Well, some states require lead free ammo for hunting since some condors eat the animal remains and digest lead. Shooting ranges usually have some type of lead recovery work that they recover the lead every several years. But just a few shots missing game is not a problem. Thanks for watching!