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I’m Convinced. No Lead Bullets for Game

Do mono bullets have their place? Absolutely they do! In fact my last mule deer was taken with a 270 WSM 110 gr Barnes TSX Tipped bullet. It was the bullet that gave me the best accuracy in that rifle! However -- we just need to make sure shooting mono bullets is a choice and not a mandate! That requires the right people in office -- not the wrong people in office! Other than that -- Happy New Year to you all -- and good shooting and good hunting!
 
Everyone processes metals differently. A close friend's wife had to undergo chelation therapy for the metals accumulating in her body.
I grew up eating fish from rivers and lakes where we were warned to not eat the fish because of mercury levels. As a kid, i swept the shop floors of an industrial furnace company that used asbestos to insulate. In grade school, we chewed our pencils that were painted yellow with a paint derived from lead tetrachloride. When I was in high school, they discovered that PCB was in our milk
I guess I'm lucky that none of this stuff has killed me yet.
  • Shoot monos if you're worried about lead.
  • Shoot whatever you want if you're not.
  • Don't hunt if you don't want to hurt an animal.
 
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I have zero issue with lead fragments in game, I've consumed many lead shotgun pellets and will continue to use lead/lead alloy in shotshells or cast bullet applications.
But, for high performance rifle applications on big game……monos are pretty difficult to beat! memtb
I hate eating lead! I've done same as you. In fact, I'm pretty sure I have a 8 shot pellet under the skin on my left shin. Dove hunting inflicted about 45 years ago. Still, I do all I can to mitigate my oral lead consumption… 🤣
 
I see your point in the "off switch". However I would prefer to minimize the meat loss - for example, the scapula has really good meat (to make osso bucco, smoke, etc.), plus the risk of creating a fractured bone mess at the end of the back loin and neck muscles
;) But everyone shoots 6mm Creedmoor with perfect placement and no bone strike to to causes blood shotting ;)

So many take so much so seriously with so little compromise. ;)
 
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