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Originally posted by muffett.2008 muffett.2008 wrote:

 My mum used to get cranky about picking all the shotgun pellets out before throwing it in the pot.
 Marvelous how we never worried about lead poisoning back then, I'm sure there were the odd pellet or two still in that tucker.
 
Aspirin was safe then tooWink
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i recall being cautioned to chew daintilly so as not to crunch a tooth on that lead shot , i always shot #4s so as to have fewer to remove and easier to find , i was a far better shot back then - good eyes and reflexes are assets of the young
 
i remember having great fun with mercury as well , society has become wimpy
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Mum never picked out the shot, we just used to spit it out as we ate. We never died from it and we probably swallowed as much as we spat out.

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We probably ingested much more lead from leaded gasoline fumes than what we ingested from game meat. Remember leaded gas? Lead was put into the mixture to lubricate the exhaust valve seats so the exhaust valves wouldn't wear out too fast.
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Originally posted by Canuck Canuck wrote:

We probably ingested much more lead from leaded gasoline fumes than what we ingested from game meat. Remember leaded gas? Lead was put into the mixture to lubricate the exhaust valve seats so the exhaust valves wouldn't wear out too fast.
It was added as an anti-knock and it happened to lubricate the other bits at the same time.  Correct me if I'm wrong but I have an idea this quality was only realized when they started moving to unleaded fuels.  No?  But the ingestion bit sounds about right.  Funny thing though, apparently we did not breath it in so much as pick it up from dust once it settled onto the ground.
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You are correct, lead was used as an anti-knock agent but back then gasoline also had a higher octane rating than it does now which also helped get rid of knocking.
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In my parts one hears of hunters finding dead deer - gutshot.  We had an incident this past roar in which two hunters in the bush we roaring each other.  One was wearing a high viz orange cap.  He got shot in the head.  In another incident the same weekend (Easter), these two mates split up to round a hill from two directions to corner the deer.  One shot the other.

Our only 'training' is in the acquisition of the firearm licence itself.  It should be enough but people do silly things and there sometimes seems to be an attitude problem or perhaps lack of practice and schooling.

I know of someone who brags about his head shot prowess using a 223 on deer.  It's a shot that appears to be very successful.  One either drops it or misses.  A miss refers only to missing the brain - not the head which is relatively large but they don't seem to realize that.  I cringe when people talk of head shots.  Another fellow used to take head shots and I always tried talking him out of it.  One day it happened and now he doesn't do head shots anymore.  Fortunately he was able to finish off the deer he wounded in the head.
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