If so, you may want to have your doctor test your blood for lead, form breathing all that lead dust. You Might be surprised.
Read this article?
http://www.utexas.edu/safety/ehs/msds/lead.html
http://www.mass.gov/dos/leaddocs/lead_firing.htm
http://www.outdoors.net/site/features/feature.aspx+Forum+Firearms+ArticleCode+129+V+N+SearchTerm++curpage+129
2007-11-10 15:42:35 · 12 answers · asked by WOMBAT, Manliness Expert 7 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
There have been many studies done in regards to the hazards of long term breathing of airborne lead dust and particles. This has always been a concern especially to the operators of indoor ranges and the people that utilize them.What the studies don't say is that the EPA has already established government standards for restricting parts per million levels of lead in these facilities. The Federal and State government are responsible for enforcing these standards, in order to be given a permit or license to operate ANY indoor range facility in the U.S. Outdoor ranges have never been an issue or a problem.These lead levels must be checked twice a year under law. Even lead handling procedures in these indoor facilities have been updated and changed to minimize the exposure to lead dust while recycling the lead bullets in the bullet "traps" in these establishments. The technology has advanced right along with health concerns these days. The chances of a person being physically damaged or suffer injury from breathing lead dust are less than those of a child contracting lead poisoning from eating lead based paint. I am not saying that this should be ignored, but there is no need to panic either....
2007-11-10 16:30:16 · answer #1 · answered by JD 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lead inhalation from shooting is very unlikely.I've handled lead for many years and have been checked for it often.If you are handling lead, make sure you use gloves and , if you can , wet the lead.Lead that has changed to lead oxide, a white dusty coating on old lead, can be inhaled.Be sure you wet any old lead before handling it with waterproof gloves.You can absorb some lead fumes while melting or pouring lead but you would probably burn the crap out of your nose as it only occurrs very close to the surface of the lead.Most lead is absorbed thru food, as in fish.Some is absorbed by plants then eaten by people.If you are registering high lead absorbtion, see you doctor and figure out whats up.
2007-11-11 00:23:23 · answer #2 · answered by Tip Anring 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Old news, and misleading, (no pun intended).
Indoor ranges have had unidirectional air flow
and filters to prevent lead dust poisoning since
long before I was a teenager in the sixties.
the amounts of lead you are exposed to on an
outdoor range are miniscule even by the standards
cited in your documents.
I am surprised... that you fell for this stuff.
2007-11-11 01:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by Irv S 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is not BS. This is one reason I like shooting outdoors. If I am at an indoor range and I don't feel the fans I ask them to turn them on. I lived by a shooting range so you know I was shooting everyother day. I got my blood checked I was fine. If I am shooting often I take calcium to reduce absorption of lead.
It is no big deal to get you blood checked and if you shoot indoors often you probably should.
2007-11-11 00:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by uncle frosty 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All the time, rabbit, fox,deer, squirrell,rats,game birds and vermin, I also do very well in competition on indoor and out door ranges. Had a blood test 2mths ago and everythings normal, Ive shot for thirty years.
2007-11-11 02:13:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is BS! i know 6 guys that i go to the range with every weekend and their all at least 60 and retired. i just showed up one day and these guys were shooting in a gravel pit. they have been shooting and hunting REGULARLY since they were 10. now to my math thats at least 50 years and the only one that has a problem with his health is the guy who got in a really bad car crash a couple of years ago.
2007-11-11 00:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by spooky 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's why I wear gloves and wash my hands when I shoot and clean my guns. I haven't heard about lead dust, just exposure to lead through touching it by handling certain types of ammo and cleaning solvents.
2007-11-11 00:13:10 · answer #7 · answered by super682003 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lead being a poison you have to inject for it to harm you. I'm not sure, but if it was going to kill me, I would be dead from working to hard.
Think about all of the men and women that hunt for years and don't have a problem, why is it they don't have lead poisoning?
2007-11-10 23:48:58 · answer #8 · answered by John M 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes i do at least once a year...
i have never thought of the lead contact but thanks... may just get checked out
2007-11-10 23:53:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's funny, I didn't know all gun owners killed animals..I own 10 guns, and I love animals
2007-11-10 23:49:00 · answer #10 · answered by The Almighty BLUE!!! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋