Thread: Lead contaminated meat

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Originally Posted by 2post

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A cut & paste from the above thread, since my views have not changed:

I think the possible ingestion of lead by myself, friends, and family, from eating venison I have harvested is a very real concern.
A quick online search on lead poisoning from eating game meat will have alarm bells ringing, particularly since there is no safe level of exposure to lead.
From personal preference I continue to use conventional lead-cored bullets over monolithic copper bullets.
My advice would be... shoot your deer low and forward and leave the entire front end of the animal.

I would add to this that the possibility of health effects beyond the neurotoxic should not be discounted. It is only due to very good fortune and modern medicine that I am still here to write this after a health incident some years back, and my confirmed elevated lead levels were possibly to blame.