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lead exposure

joesjoes Member Posts: 484 ✭✭✭
edited December 2008 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
I handle around 200,000 rounds a year of once fired (almost all copper jacket bullets) brass cases. Do I have to be concerned with lead exposure? Or do you think I am overthinking things? Joe.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    That depends on a lot of things. If handling outdoors or indoors with good ventilation and you wash your hands well, probably nothing to worry about.

    But best be safe. Get your lead level checked. If low, don't worry about it. If higher, then you know that yes, there might be something to worry about.
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  • DENWADENWA Member Posts: 390 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wash your hands, wear latex gloves, but most of all keep you hands away from your face.

    Reloading safely is great but shooting in an unventilated area (indoor ranges) has largest effect.

    So shoot outside and you'll be fine.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have had many lead tests over the past 30 plus years. To say my precautions handling lead were, and too some extent still are, very poor is an understatement. I have never had any lead level recorded that was not normal. Over the years I have quit smoking, don't eat dinner at the lead pot anymore and keep drinks away from the table too. My casting is done mostly in the fall and winter in a drafty shed on a clean work bench. I hand lube and size each bullet and don't wear gloves.

    It would probably be wise to take more precautions than I have but as a LOT of things are these days, the dangers are far overrated. My suggestion is to take precautions that make sense to you and realize that sooner or later something is going to kill each of us and there ain't squat you can do about it, so die happy.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    + 1 on bpost I too have been around casting / lubeing / loading / shooting / and cleaning cases for over 35 Years I also shot some indoor ranges some better air movement then others and tons of outdoor matches and practice. I did not get tested until I was 60 and at that time had a reading of 19 This would be a cause for alarm in say a one year old child but not some one my age. I do suggesr you do not eat drink or smoke while loading or casting and only Cast outside and when you separate clean cases from polish medium.
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  • jtmarine0831jtmarine0831 Member Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My cigarettes, wife , or the Government will kill me before Lead will![:p]
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