05-02-2012, 08:52 PM
mongoosesnipe Wrote:when lead or other foreign debris are introduced into the body by one form or another your body will usually seal off the foreign material in fat and scar tissue to isolate it from the rest of your body and so long as said object does not introduce an infection into the body it can be inside you for a basically unlimited amount of time with no ill effects so long as it is left undisturbed...
I am honestly ok with nontoxic bullets for hunting now that the legislation has started there are many more non toxic bullets on the market than there used to be and the price has come down significantly mind you the bullets need not be solid copper to fit into the bill of non toxic and honestly how many bullets does one typically shoot at animals in a given year outside of varmint serous varmint hunters most people only fire a few rounds at game and when you compare guiding metal bullets to premium bonded core bullets the price difference is minimal .09 per bullet comparing hornady non toxic to bonded core and there a few varmint offering which are non toxic and only cost a few cents more per bullet even using barnes as the example 50 bullets for 6.5 cost 34 bucks and i know i probably wont shoot at big game more than 50 times in the next 10 years and to be perfectly honest i use barnes for my hunting loads any way so as to not risk introducing lead in to the diets of my family and friends as well as my own
on the topic of using non toxic at ranges i feel it is mostly bs as ranges are built with retrieving the lead in mind and are mined for lead every few years so that lead is not staying in the environment that in addition to the fact that lead oxidizes very quickly and does not react further once oxidized basically if people or animals are not eating the bullets your shooting the need not be non toxic
Nice response.