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How much does a bullet damage the surrounding flesh of an animal? How many bullets does it take to make that meat inedible?
Would ingesting bullet residue be harmful to humans? What about gunpowder? Doesn't it dissolve in the flesh of the animal you kill? How do you avoid eating it?
Eat Pheasant killed with a shot gun and you can break a tooth on the shot......if it's been shot with lead pellets you could end up ingesting them......
Meat for eating is normally bleed out before the blood congiles and ruins the meat...
Clearly I'm not a gun person D. Some folks are so fussy bussy about what they eat. I wonder if they kill and eat animals and how fussy they are about that?. When you say "bleed out" does that blood remove all gunpowder residue or is it still tainted by some? Thank you for your reply! :)
Modern bullets don't use gunpowder ......if they left any volatile chemicals on the round once fired they would be deemed harmful to health and be banned from use .....most likly the round gets red hot from the heat of the explosion and friction from the barrel
All slaughter houses stun animals with electricity before cutting their throats and saving the blood while letting the animal bleed out with their hearts still pumping ......Maybe only out in the wild would you not bleed out a animal you shot to eat....
Rosie, here's a few basic facts and terminology. Gunshot residue (GSR), also known as cartridge discharge residue (CDR), "gunfire residue" (GFR), or firearm discharge residue (FDR), is residue deposited on the hands and clothes of someone who discharges a firearm.
Bullet Wipe The lubricant and debris on a bullet’s surface which is wiped off the bullet and onto the wound edge as a bullet passes through the tissue surface.
Gunpowder actually takes two different forms. Black powder has been in use for a very long time - much longer than the period in history when guns existed. Smokeless powder has been around for about a century. Both of these chemicals are designed to be propellants rather than explosives. They are primarily used to propel a bullet or other projectile down the barrel of a gun.
Dynamite is an explosive rather than a propellant. Rather than being used to propel bullets it is used to generate a shock that can break up rocks or other solid objects.
I (not me personally) never slit the throat it bleeds enough when field dressed and angled properly, plus that only works when the heart is still beating to pump out the blood.
Nice Jugs 