Pets and Pellets, beware!
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My younger sister is a vet who helped me. Thanks for the ideas on pellet traps, really like the silent ones.
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I packed my .22 rimfire trap full of rubber mulch. Couple of layers of cardboard taped over the front keeps it in. Tape up the front as you shoot it out and replace as necessary. Works great. No splatter and so much quieter.
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Damn ! I knew lead was poisonous ... but the posts here make it clear the toxins we are spreading around our natural shooting ranges are even more serious and long lasting than I thought.
How many tins of lead is the average airgunner spreading around per year ... All either picked up by animals or seeping into the soil and the ground water. Not sure what's worse ... Although the untimely passing of your beloved at our airgunner hands clearly leaves a deeply disturbing impression.
Her martyrdom will be a reminder for me to contain these pellets and pick them up instead of soiling our own nests.
How many tins of lead is the average airgunner spreading around per year ... All either picked up by animals or seeping into the soil and the ground water. Not sure what's worse ... Although the untimely passing of your beloved at our airgunner hands clearly leaves a deeply disturbing impression.
Her martyrdom will be a reminder for me to contain these pellets and pick them up instead of soiling our own nests.
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We have a couple of dogs and a fenced in back yard. I shoot in the back yard frequently when sighting in / testing different ammo's, playing with different tunes on guns, etc . . . I'm good out to 50 yards or so out there. It occurred to me a couple of years ago re: lead all over the place and the dogs potentially picking it up. 
I started filling 1 gallon plastic milk jugs with sand and just using sharpie markers on them to draw circles (targets) - or just use plastic adhesive targets. In any case - NOTHING gets through those things. The sand in them stops anything that I have anyway dead in its tracks. The hardest hitter I have is a .25 cal RTI Prophet slinging 36.2g NSA's - those sand filled milk jugs stop 'em dead.
I started filling 1 gallon plastic milk jugs with sand and just using sharpie markers on them to draw circles (targets) - or just use plastic adhesive targets. In any case - NOTHING gets through those things. The sand in them stops anything that I have anyway dead in its tracks. The hardest hitter I have is a .25 cal RTI Prophet slinging 36.2g NSA's - those sand filled milk jugs stop 'em dead.Upvote 0
Hi All,
Thanks OP. Lead management cannot be overlooked. We should be more careful at home. I for one will be building some new traps on Sunday. I like the rubber mulch idea but I'm not sure how to get the lead out of the mulch in the end.
I'll figure that out later. Non-trapped pellets will be the tin ones now.
Thanks again,
Nugria
Thanks OP. Lead management cannot be overlooked. We should be more careful at home. I for one will be building some new traps on Sunday. I like the rubber mulch idea but I'm not sure how to get the lead out of the mulch in the end.
I'll figure that out later. Non-trapped pellets will be the tin ones now.
Thanks again,
Nugria
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Quick two minute read about lead and waterfowl. 1 pellet can cause anemia, 5 will cause paralysis and heart attack. https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-350-79136_79608_85016-26676--,00.html
I never thought about pets, songbirds, and wildlife consuming lead pellets. Sorry for your loss and thanks for opening our eyes.
On the environmental front this study from Va Techhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041104005801.htm says lead from shooting ranges doesn’t leach into the water supply. I also found out that over 500 tons of lead is released into air each year from avation gas for piston engine aircraft.
I never thought about pets, songbirds, and wildlife consuming lead pellets. Sorry for your loss and thanks for opening our eyes.
On the environmental front this study from Va Techhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041104005801.htm says lead from shooting ranges doesn’t leach into the water supply. I also found out that over 500 tons of lead is released into air each year from avation gas for piston engine aircraft.
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earth, however usually it’s burrows deep away from YOUR water and normally it’s never even remotely close to the level of concentration. Usually lead is measured parts per million, or far smaller than our eyes can possibly see, however even a trace amount that you cannot see will cause very long neurological damage.
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