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Indoor range lead exposure risk

spclarkspclark Member Posts: 408 ✭
edited November 2001 in General Discussion
I prefer outdoor ranges - let me get that straight first up - but the one's open to me now are 45 minutes to an hour's drive away.Closest indoor range is about fifteen minutes.I shoot maybe two, three hours a week there, often amongst many others, & the overall ventilation is decent but I still wonder:Sometimes, when I'm finished & washed up, I have a sense of a sweetish taste in the back of my throat; I've heard small children eat lead-based paint 'cause it tastes sweet.Should I be wearing a respirator fitted with lead-vapor-absorbing cartridges to reduce my exposure to lead fumes, from the primer exhaust from all these discharges?
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    The range I shoot at has both indoor and outdoor areas. I always enjoyed the indoor part because of the targets that you could retrieve with the flip of a switch.They have now restricted use of the indoor range to only completely metal-encased bullets. This because of lead exposure. I didn't even know there was such a bullet available until the rangemaster showed some to me. Completely copper-clad. Don't have 'em? Shoot outside.What a drag.
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  • travelortravelor Member Posts: 442 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let me say this, I am a sign painter...sign paint contains lead, and supposedly one of the worst ways to contract lead poisoning is to absorb it through the cuticals. I get wet paint on my fingers with every sign I paint, and have so far experienced no symptoms. Lead poisoning mostly affects young children, five or younger, the most. Though lead bilds up in your body over long time exposure, it takes a lot of exposure to effect an adult. And beside that, did you know that lead poisoning causes madness? wouldn't that be good for targeting?
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why worry about it - ya can't live forever so why try? Enjoy life and quit worrying about what some dimwit says. I was pumping gas at the age of 13 and it was leaded. Breathed lots of those fumes. No problems 50 years later. Chicken little is everywhere.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SPCLARK: If you are worried about lead exposure an old trick is to eat some Rolaids. Supposedly the calcium in the Rolaids will absorb the lead. I used to work in metal structure restorations and the lead levels in my blood and other guys who ate Rolaids (do to stomach distress, stress, etc.) were always below normal for the amount of exposure we were in. During an environmental safety certification course, the instructor recommended Rolaids to be given to the crew to reduce lead levels.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    We sometimes send rookies to a nearby police academy with an indoor range. The range has no scrubbers, so the only ammo allowed is lead free. The rangemaster specified Win-Clean, so I laid in a supply.
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