BTW You Reloaders & Competition Shooters

Isn't that the truth. If you look around the firing line at our matches, "macho" is the second to last thing to come to mind, "sexy" being the very last thing...

In fact, we are considering installation of small jib cranes at each prone shooting station. We need something to help us get some of these guys back upright again after they have finished their prone shot strings... We're hoping if they wear a heavy duty belt we can just put the cable hook through the back of the belt and winch them vertical again...

When I started to read this thread I thought it maybe was going to be about the hazard of lead dust and vapors that get into the air due to shooting. Years ago I worked at a law enforcement headquarters, and part of my duties was to clean out all of the debris from bullets in the bullet trap of the indoor shooting range. There was concern about the health hazards of disturbing all of the bits of lead, ranging from almost complete bullets to dust, and I had to wear gloves, goggles, coveralls, and a respirator with the proper cartridges. The indoor range was shut down at one point so they could verify that the ventilation and exhaust from the area was adequate to prevent the shooters from inhaling too much lead.

I am talking about a half a dozen people firing hundreds of rounds in an hour or so in an enclosed indoor shooting range in the basement of a building.

Shooting outdoors doesn't have the same problem due to the much better ventilation.<G> Outdoors the biggest hazard is probably noise, which of course is worse inside, too.

You know, I've wondered about this before.

My oldest son is a skeet shooter, made Nationals two years in a row. Lots of practice, some of it over our pond. Some friends practice there just for fun.

I've told him and whoever was out there with him that I hope they don't give the fish lead poisoning. It could happen, couldn't it?

We like to fish in that pond.
SBJ

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Agreed...I still say he writes just like Stickywitch. He's just using possibly his work computer instead of home to keep from being recognized.

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NW Squeeky-I served in Vietnam myself as an artillery officer in the Army. I enjoyed shooting and hunting before I went, shooting artillery while I was there, and shooting and hunting after I returned home. I reload all of my centerfire hunting ammo and do a lot of safe shooting and hunting. So I am on your macho idiot list.

I have seen the tone and gist of some of your posts before without replying. You would have been better served to have stayed home during the war instead of flying a 'fighter jet' polluting the environment with munitions(assuming you fired some) and jet exhaust. Your opinion(in your opinion) seems to be the only right, proper, or correct one and everyone else is a stupid, uneducated, macho, redneck idiot. I dislike your elitist snobbery. Did you vote for Kerry? TnTnTn

NW Squeeky-I served in Vietnam myself as an artillery officer in the Army. I enjoyed shooting and hunting before I went, shooting artillery while I was there, and shooting and hunting after I returned home. I reload all of my centerfire hunting ammo and do a lot of safe shooting and hunting. So I am on your macho idiot list.

I have seen the tone and gist of some of your posts before without replying. You would have been better served to have stayed home during the war(protesting, smoking, etc.) instead of flying a 'fighter jet' polluting the environment with munitions(assuming you fired some) and jet exhaust. Your opinion(in your opinion) seems to be the only right, proper, or correct one and everyone else is a stupid, uneducated, macho, redneck idiot. I dislike your elitist snobbery. Did you vote for Kerry? TnTnTn