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Lead levels cause indoor range to close

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ECS686

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While most should know If you frequent or work around indoor ranges take precautions. Get your lead levels checked at least annually.

Mine became elevated when I was working at an indoor ranges but and it had a good ventilation system but 70 is one of the highest I have heard of.


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Avon gun range closes amid state investigation into reports of high lead levels

13 Investigates has confirmed the state is investigating an Avon gun range after a former employee said he developed lead poisoning on the job.
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Wow! This is the first I’ve heard of this. That range is just under five miles from me, and I’ve never been there. It’s looking like I won’t be going.

A friend used to work at a competitor down the road from them. He’s told about changing the filters at that place, and that sounded pretty nasty. It made me glad I belong to a club with an outdoor range.
 
about 3-4 years ago, i asked my doctor to send me out for a lead test..

i used to buy reloaded ammo that had lead bullets. so contact with the lead, it gets into our skin and then from there, our blood..i also in the beginning, of my reloading back then, reloaded with lead bullets, so again, lots MORE contact.

i go to my club and an indoor range, no outdoor range close to me, so of course i don't get to one.

my first lead level test was at about 34 if i recall.

my last level test, if i recall, i am down to 9

no medications to take for that, just extra care in washing after a range visit, no mask either........i go to each place at least once each week. so...2 visits to an indoor range, weekly.
 
ECS686 said:
While most should know If you frequent or work around indoor ranges take precautions. Get your lead levels checked at least annually.

Mine became elevated when I was working at an indoor ranges but and it had a good ventilation system but 70 is one of the highest I have heard of.


www.wthr.com

Avon gun range closes amid state investigation into reports of high lead levels

13 Investigates has confirmed the state is investigating an Avon gun range after a former employee said he developed lead poisoning on the job.
www.wthr.com www.wthr.com
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BarryinIN said:
Wow! This is the first I’ve heard of this. That range is just under five miles from me, and I’ve never been there. It’s looking like I won’t be going.

A friend used to work at a competitor down the road from them. He’s told about changing the filters at that place, and that sounded pretty nasty. It made me glad I belong to a club with an outdoor range.
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this may be the reason why most ranges hire a lead abatement company...my club hired them to remove all the bullets from the trap well(??) at the end of the range.....i think they wash the floor each time as well, and why my club for sometime now, forbids us to walk on the range, or sweep up, other than where we stand to shoot.

size, as in square footage, dictates the costs of a lead company going in and cleaning

well worth it, over a shutdown, jobs lost, customers searching for another place to shoot.
 
belladonna said:
Unfortunately when one lives in a colder climate, indoor ranges are the way to go. We just have to remember the lead thing and monitor ourselves accordingly.
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that's the most important thing we can do, monitor things for ourselves.

washing our hands with lead removal soaps at the ranges or clubs, and not sweeping up the range, only our own shell casings, for those of us like me, that reload.

at least once per year get the blood testing for lead level(s).

i think think any of us want to give up our sport/hobby due to extreme high levels of lead.
 
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