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Aspirin was safe then too
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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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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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