dammit

Just wait and see if you get a call from OH&S asking all about your job and where the exposure is coming from.

Others have a point that there are other points for contamination such as dealing with dirty brass and or shooting indoors, etc.
 
Lead pipes in your area? Lived in a house for years that had lead pipes. I am sure my lead levels are high as well.

* going to go cast some bullets*

Snider shooter said:
Tumbling cases indoors can spread lead dust in house. I know a fellow who had high lead count and his family also. They traced it to his reloading room. The dust in area tested very high. I will not clean cases inside for this reason.
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Wet tumbling. There is no dust. Just try not to drink the water
 
buckbrush said:
indoor shooting or smoking while shooting or loading can cause it.
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I imagine smoking while re-loading has potentially more immediate and dire consequences:p

But hey, I know what you're saying. Hand to mouth. I smoke and have been handling a lot of lead lately. I'm going to ask to be tested next doctors visit.

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That's nothing, mine was at .52 umol/L, I'm down to .37umol/L now but i haven't been doing alot of shooting or casting. but regardless of either number it's still low all things considered. I'm going to get regular blood tests but I'm not going to stop casting or shooting.

I'm very confident my lead levels came from shooting indoors with no mask, i still shoot indoors but with a proper lead mask. I just can't wear the mask shooting rifles though, well not without modifying it.
 
My test just over a year ago was near toxic levels. I switched to lead free pistol primers and don't shoot indoors. I gave away all my large primer .45 Auto cases and bought small primer cases, because I couldn't get large lead free primers. This past September, my lead had dropped to half of what it was. In the spring and summer, I had cast about six thousand bullets, in a garage near the open door, so casting wasn't the big problem. The lead styphnate in the primers is the real baddie.
A club members who is a professor at the local medical faculty did a lot of digging into the lead issue and confirms this.
 
slug said:
My test just over a year ago was near toxic levels. I switched to lead free pistol primers and don't shoot indoors. I gave away all my large primer .45 Auto cases and bought small primer cases, because I couldn't get large lead free primers. This past September, my lead had dropped to half of what it was. In the spring and summer, I had cast about six thousand bullets, in a garage near the open door, so casting wasn't the big problem. The lead styphnate in the primers is the real baddie.
A club members who is a professor at the local medical faculty did a lot of digging into the lead issue and confirms this.
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I started wearing latex gloves now, especially when depriming, and placing the bullet on the case. Hopefully its better than doing nothing.
 
My grand father ( when I was kid ) always told me a clean plate will put lead in yar pencil ! Something kinda like that happen to me , mine was green mold ? The doctor had it carved out and Biopsied it was copper and lead , he couldn't figure out what or where it was from ( I dummied up !) It was an old Ricochet wound from when I was a kid, jacked 22 splash . I had total forgotten about it other than the small bump it made on my lower shoulder . I kinda think I remember how it happened but am not total shure ,it could have happened many ways , I was prone to trying / Experimentations ! Idle Hands And access to tools and materials can and many times led to some Spectacular failures . Mother would patch me up when she got wind of something not right, then father would give me a what for ( after mothers prodding) he many times just shook his head and would tell me not to do stuff like that !! Cause it upset MOTHER !
 
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