Anyone wear surgical gloves while reloading?

scout_289 said:
If no gloves make sure you scrub your hands before heading to the airport. I asked security and they told me that the swipe might pick up traces of nitro compounds.
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I've been found to test positive for explosives on more than one occasion at the airport. Its amazing how calm the testers are when they tell you "you have tested positive for high explosives". Last time was in the US and they just pat you down a bit because everyone knows that explosives are big and bulky and would be easily found under clothing...
 
Brutus said:
Just buy a Level 3 HAZMAT suit and be done with it already.
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Matter of fact I have worked in them. With a stupid response that you posted, you obviously have no idea the damage caused by elevated blood lead levels, both physically, mentally and it affects both work and marriage. I really hope you can maintain your level of ignorance than go through some of the problems caused by high volume reloading with cast lead that I did.
 
jethunter said:
That's odd. I've cast and sized literally tens of thousands of cast lead bullets with bare hands and loaded thousands of them every year, too. I just wash my hands when I'm done - and I've never had any sign of elevated lead levels although I get checked yearly.

I also shoot outdoors 99% of the time. The only people I have met that had elevated lead levels were people who did a lot of indoor shooting. I don't believe handling cast bullets are nearly as much to blame for lead ingestion as poorply ventilated indoor shooting ranges. I talked to a gentleman from Edmonton Police Services who had been a firearms instructor and saw his levels spike - likely due to a large amount of time exposed to indoor ranges and mostly factory loaded jacketed bullets.
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At the time I was shooting in a brand new CF indoor range (read as state of the art), I was shooting once a week indoors, twice a week outdoor and reloading and handling cast lead multiple days of the week on a single stage.
 
Confessions ...confessions. A little bathroom humour early in the morning is hard on the keyboard when coffee is in hand.

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Bob
 
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Even at the RA Center indoor range here, 2 hours of shooting and you would be blowing black #### out of your nose for a day....
 
Canuck44 said:
If that is the case I would not shoot there..simple. The primers are the major culprit if the range has a jacketed only policy. If it doesn't then you have a little more to be concerned about. It is the lead particles in the smoke cloud that gets you.

Bob
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I remember a fellow on here was cleaning his primer pockets with a dremel and brush attachment, completely oblivious to the lead and mercury. I'd be willing to wager he'd ingested some heavy metals doing that. One of the biggest reasons I wet tumble, no dust!
 
So nowadays you are just shooting dust???

Folks on this thread seems intent on over sharing personal issues :)
UR2X3M4ME said:
The only latex I wore was when I was much younger and it was not my hands...

I only wear nitrile gloves when handling dirty brass.
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Eagleye said:
Nope, and probably never will. Do not like wearing any gloves when I am doing "fiddley" things. Dave.
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Couldn't agree more. Im more the type to wash my hands 3x in exchange for feeling everything I'm doing rather than wear any type of glove. I have fairly beat up hands thanks to years of this, but old habits die hard. Later on they die harder, and then a few years later they die hard with a vengeance.
 
TargetAcquired said:
Couldn't agree more. Im more the type to wash my hands 3x in exchange for feeling everything I'm doing rather than wear any type of glove. I have fairly beat up hands thanks to years of this, but old habits die hard. Later on they die harder, and then a few years later they die hard with a vengeance.
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You guys had zero care about safety back then. I started plumbing in 2008, I've worn gloves since and my hands are fairly smooth still even after 3 years of humping pipe. You'd be stupid NOT to wear gloves now-a-days, I've given my guys #### for not wearing gloves and getting injured. It's really too bad that people get preventable injuries, when all they needed to do was wait 30 seconds to put on gloves or googles. Yet they didn't and now have to get stitches or crap pulled from their eyes and have lost time and worksafe up your butt.
 
Anyone ever taken a WHMIS course? If you have you would know that there are 3 ways for toxins to enter your bloodstream, ingest them by mouth, breathe them in, and absorb them through the skin.

If the media does "gets somewhat toxic" we should wear gloves, but to the OP, are you sure it does? From what, burnt powder and primer residue? The vast majority of that would have gone down the barrel.

I worked in OSH enforcement and have seen some weird things happen. Workers get asthma from working in a crab processing facility is one. Yes, from the odor of the crabs.
 
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