Anyone wear surgical gloves while reloading?

Hitzy said:
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....
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I agree ! I can taste the gun powder in my nose & mouth really strong after shooting indoors. My wife can smell it on my clothes when I come home. I can also smell it on the steering wheel in my truck a day later. Not Kidding ! Even my keys smelled like range brass.

I will never shoot indoor anymore.


You cant smoke cigarettes indoors anymore because of the carcinogenics.......yet a person shoots indoors which is way more toxic. LOL


If you where standing in a garage with a motor running on leaded gasoline......do you really think that little exhaust fan is going to keep your air clean & safe ?
 
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I simply wash my hands after reloading.

Oil from hands tarnishing brass? I really don't know what to say.........
 
You’d be surprised the chemicals absorbed into the body through the skin. I work with mechanics who break out upon contact with petrochemicals after years of not wearing gloves, now they have to wear them.

Is reloading going to expose you to the same levels of contact? Of course not, but who know how much is really safe.

The last thing I’d ever be worried about would be chemicals from my hand damaging the cases
 
As a mechanic, I used to get little bubbles of clear fluid under my skin on my hands from not wearing gloves. Did I learn from that? No!
I never wear gloves, never have never will. It ain't kilt me yet!
Reloading, even with lead bullets I never wear 'em.
I do have some soap called D'Lead in the house. Must use that up some day.
 
I do not wear gloves while reloading however I wash my hands frequently with soap in the utility sink and I use IMR Enduron powders that apparently are environmentally safe (I assume by environment that includes the reloader .... lol) I do not touch primers at all with my hands. I use tweezers to grab them and put them into the primer. Not a big deal for me since my volume of hunting rifle reloads is small and I have very steady hands. As far as case lubrication I use RCBS case lube which is non-toxic (and I am assuming that means no heavy metals and toluenes or any other benzene derivative). Like I said before ... I wash hands frequently and wipe my cases down with fresh cotton rags. Oh yeah ... like my mom said ... don't put your finger in your mouth ... lol.

Bottom line is ... it depends on your reloading hygiene and what chemicals/products you use.
 
I guess it also depends what type of bullets one handles ... mine are all gilding metal jacketed. Back in the day when I was a kid I helped my Dad clean motor parts with leaded gas! :O oh well .... what did I know as a kid ... lol ... just did what Dad told me.
 
I use graphite lubricant from Redding in a powder form dispersed through a reusable application media (tiny plastic beads) to help with bullet insertion and to help reduce neck brass and jacketed bullet friction variances. Sometimes when the brass cases are too clean they "grip" the bullet and increase rifle chamber pressures. As far as I know graphite powder is inert and is 100% carbon 12 ... which is more or less what living organisms are made of ...
 
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