New study on lead fragments from shot in game birds

[Duckman]

This is very timely if somewhat off topic. Tonight we were eating an elk roast from one I killed during the 2008 season. Trying to rotate our freezer contents you know. Low and behold I bit down on something that clearly wasn't bone and pulled the following out of my mouth.
Yes, it's a 140 grain Nosler accubond. Notice the great weight retention! I was trying to remember the exit wound and couldn't. No wonder.
Second picture is the beast.

[Bill Murphy]

I didn't even bother to read the ridiculous implication that we, who don't grind our food in gizzards, are harmed by lead from game. Peter, thanks for giving this left wing attempt to end hunting as we know it a good example of "ridiculous". Whenever I bite down on a 140 grain Nosler, I, like you, generally spit it out.

[Duckman]

We've probably overworked this one, but I think I was in more danger from cutting myself on the remainder of the copper jacket on that Nosler than from swallowing the lead. I think, even at age 60, my innards still function well enough to expel the lead! I am also still nimble enough of tongue to find just about anything size 8 or larger before I swallow it. Can't say about #9 as I haven't used them for awhile.
In AZ they require copper bullets around the Grand Canyon to save the introduced California condos from lead poisoning. I guess I'd be more concerned about their starving to death considering they evolved dining on ground sloths and mammoths, not puny mule deer.