A lead sinker from his tackle box. I guess he didn't know it was poisonous, and it got me to thinking that in an earlier century guns fired poisonous bullets. How awful is that!
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romans boiled wine in it and used it almost exclusively for water lines. lead is still the preferred component for most firearm projectiles., unless its wetland duck shot.
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@stound I saw that modern bullets still use a lead core.
@SW-User unless it's for ducks near a wetland, sometimes {often?) those require a bismuth or steel based load. It's hard to beat the utility of fairly soft lead in a round.
