Thread: Lead bullets and their risk to human health

Jeez, that has me convinced. I was already pretty paranoid about lead. I generally don’t take front legs of deer Ive shoulder shot, just not worth it for me when it gets fed to the kids and other family members. I really want a clear conscience when giving meat away. Yeah micro particles of lead travelling 30cm all around the wound channel is pretty scary. Even back straps might not be entirely safe. Have bought some copper projos to try at the range, but haven’t got around to it. Good motivation to get onto it. Im not too concerned about killing power, most of my hunting is within 100m a good copper bullet going full tit should get the job done fine but will see how I go. .223 is the new deer hunting cal apparently so a “big” cal in copper should do just fine.