Thread: X-ray of shot deer

Originally Posted by woods223

Don't know about Average-Lad but due to a potential heart problem I'm currently experiencing I've had blood tests carried out testing for all sorts of things including heavy metals, the result of which was negative. In fact everything they tested for was o.k. apart from slightly high HDL Cholesterol result. So as previously stated, as someone who regularly eats game (60+ years) shot with projectiles containing lead I have no qualms about possible lead ingestion due to my diet. Two meat samples I contributed to a study mentioned previously both tested negative for lead. I'm reasonably careful to avoid obvious shot damaged meat, game-birds hard to avoid lead. Last meat ( 30 kgs ) I donated to food-bank I got x-rayed by local friendly vet, no lead showed up. So until I'm asked to or it becomes mandatory to use copper bullets I'll continue using lead jacketed bullets in all probability. And before anyone gets uppity about it the food bank knows the source of meat and informs their clients the same, personal choice of recipient whether to consume meat or not.

This is the result I would expect. Very little lead ends up in the blood stream from ingesting it. Vapours when casting with poor ventilation especially doing it regularly would be another matter.