B Frech,
If you REALLY want to know look in the libaries. It's all there.

Dosages (# pellets etc needed to kill a mallard or an eagle are documented and you can find them for yourself. Along the way you will learn a lot more than simple LD 50s and the like. The report that Al posted will give you an opening into the literature, but in the age of the internet, there is no reason you can't research the what is known about any issue on your own.

As for your years of loading and casting - congratulations. You have good hygene, and you probably tend not to eat the stuff. I load, cast, and swage myself. So, I am not too worried about lead poisoning either as I practice a few simple precautions as I imagine you do.

But even if you did eat the occasional bullet, or two, your risk of lead poisoning is quite a bit less than a bird. What you and I lack that birds do not is a crop. And that, makes all the difference in the world.

Brent

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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