Thread: Monolithic Projectiles

Originally Posted by shooternz

Most lead contamination is from shooting at indoor ranges with out ventilation there is lead in the priming compound and lead dust from impact
melting lead does not put lead in the air only if it is vaporised with a gas flame at high temperature,
Lead particles in shot animals is from using bullets that fragment instead of mushrooming, so those of you that like shooting animals with hand grenade bullets good luck.

From that I take it you don't stuff a bit of ffg into your hollow point boolits... then again I guess it might also defeat the purpose of subsonics and suppressors.

Someone somewhere made a point about lead fragments - if you use a very fragmenting bullet and just opt to leave the destroyed parts of the kill behind... another animal will ingest the lead fragments in the course of tidying up after you. Another good reason to use less frangible bullets.