Champlain Islander

I think what they claim is that the bullets often break up into small pieces and can be eaten when we eat the meat. Sounds a little bogus to me and I don't plan on stopping eating deer anytime soon.

huntnma

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/lead/index.htm


this is what i saw on it....it's rather intresting but it won't stop me from eating deer or anything else that i shoot.

vabyrd

WOW! Im totally amazed. I guess I'll have to take back my smart a$$ remarks. Everyone should watch that presentation. I can't say I will stop eating venison, but I may reconsider what gets ground into burger. Maybe slower(bullet) is better?

formula1

I watched the presentation. This borders on the level of ridiculous IMHO. Been eating this stuff for 40 years and amazingly no side effects.

I'm going home for venison tonight!

tickman1961

Biased BS.........only the ignorant or naive would believe such a crazy claim.

Generations of people have never experienced any problems with eating wild game after it was killed by lead..........[:@]

PETA/HSUS propaganda [:@][:'(]

okcaveman

ok i didn read the replies. seen this to many times. pregnant women been eating game killed with lead bullets for o say 250 years. any noticable problems? nope. me an my family been eating game killed by lead bullet our entire lives, same as my parents and grandparents and so on. any problems? nope. same with everybody else i know. now sure excessive lead is bad for you, but im sry but there is no way that a bullet that leaves a few tiny lead fragments that you ingest is gona harm you. the human body is an amazing thing. stop freakin out about what hasnt been an issue. this is just somebody wanting some attention for a "big find" prolly to justify the research money spent on this. if you want to see some serious side effects from food, look at the hormones that go into store bought meats, or the cocktaail of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides that are sprayed on you vegetables. ever heard of GMO? genetically modified organisms. they are taking and splicing a pesticide into cerrtain plants at the genetic level. thats something to worry about, not the lead in venison

Centauri

The DNR of states never cease to amaze me with their stupid antics. People have been eating game shot with lead bullets ever since guns were invented, and there have been 0 noticable incidents.

vabyrd

Well, I'll put it this way. It is recommended for pregnant women and children under 6. My wife is 3 mos from delivering #2, and #1 is four years old. Do you think the extra bucks spent on all copper bullets really makes two chits of a difference to me? Odds are there is probably not much to worry about, might be nothing at all. But I know I've found copper jacket in meat before, and where there is copper, there is lead. Maybe it is a bunch of hogwash, but I spent the day zeroing my '06 with Federal 165's w/Barnes Triple-Shocks. Regardless of the "study", those are some sweet rounds. Hell, I was thanking my wife for making me buy them....

Remnard

CDC Study Shows No Health Risk
Associated with Traditional Ammunition
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study on human lead levels of hunters in North Dakota has confirmed what hunters throughout the world have known for hundreds of years, that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition poses absolutely no health risk to people, including children, and that the call to ban lead ammunition was and remains a scare tactic being pushed by anti-hunting groups to forward their political agenda.
Today, additional information became available about the CDC study, originally released yesterday, that is important to disseminate to hunters, their families and the general public about the total and complete lack of any evidence of a human health risk from consuming game harvested using traditional ammunition. For instance, in the study the average lead level of the hunters tested was lower than that of the average American.
In the CDC's study, children's lead levels had a mean of just 0.88 micrograms per deciliter, which is less than half the national average for children and an infinitesimally small fraction of the level that the CDC considers to be of concern for children (10 micrograms per deciliter). Yet, despite the total and complete lack of any evidence from this study of the existence of a human health risk, the Department of Health nevertheless urges that children under 6 and pregnant women not eat venison harvested using traditional ammunition. The North Dakota Department of Health's recommendation is based on a "zero tolerance" approach to the issue of blood lead levels that is not supported by science or the CDC's guidelines.
To further put in perspective the claims concerning the safety of game harvested using traditional ammunition, consider this statement from the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) -- a state agency that has conducted an extensive panel of blood-lead testing for more than 15 years: "IDPH maintains that if lead in venison were a serious health risk, it would likely have surfaced within extensive blood-lead testing since 1992 with 500,000 youth under 6 and 25,000 adults having been screened." It has not.
Read the NSSF press release. National Shooting Sports Foundation | 11 Mile Hill Rd | Newtown | CT | 06470
See related articles

ND pantries to accept only archery-killed deer http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_re_us/lead_venison_1
Deer hunters stay loyal to lead bullets despite fragment risk
http://www.grandforksherald.com/arti...s.cfm?id=91774
To see results of the DNR’s bullet fragmentation study, including an animated video that shows how the fragments dispersed with various types of ammo, check out the DNR Web site at www.dnr.state.mn.us.

BowtechHunting

You kiddin' me! I grew up chewin' on cribs that were covered in lead based paint, ate dirt, god knows what else....
Everything can give you some form of sickness these days. EVERYTHING!

Disregard sources where there is no proof.