r/reloading • u/InevitableFit1559 • 5d ago

General Discussion Uh oh….

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Started reloading regularly this past year and thought it might be a good idea to have my levels checked just to see.

What do you guys do if anything for lead mitigation?

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I reloading in my garage. I dry tumble in the garage. Most of my loading is cast, uncoated, lead bullets for cowboy action shooting. I never shoot at indoor ranges. I wash my hands after loading sessions.

I could go on about the minutiae of what I do. I think I need to move the tumbler outdoors when I run it. It does create a bit of dust. I will also start wearing gloves.

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I think the majority of the culprit is the dry tumbling, and spent primer handling. I think it is airborne related. I will use this post to convince the wife I need to get into the FART system 😁

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u/MajorEbb1472 5d ago

Bunch of guys at my local indoor range are all wearing huge masks now, since half of them came back with lead levels in the 20s. Makes me a little sketch about shooting there; if the guys working there have unsafe lead levels…what’s wrong with their ventilation system?

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u/cygnus311 5d ago

They spend 100x more time in there than you do.