ggood
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Been tumbling with corn cob for35 years and tons of shooting nowadays more in indoor ranges. Blood lead levels came as 66 in Feb. Stopped all lead bullet shooting,indoor range and tumbling and wear half face lead rated respirator and nitrile gloves and use lead wipes on my hands and lead removal detergent on my workbench all the time. Also always wash my clothes and change shoes etc. after a while you get used to it and it doesnt take that long. Lead level is now 21. I had a lab come to house and check lead levels and the worst was where I did my media seperation. I set up for wet tumbling but cant do the volume that you can in dry.Wet also has other problems.I think one has to look at the whole picture and not just tumbling. BY the way my wife tested at 3. In my case I think it is mainly from the indoor range. Also somewhere along the line you have to deprime and that lead styp will be a problem. Looked up forensics and when the police do a gunshot residue test they find arsenic and all kinds of nasty stuff. anyway enough said.I'm going to keep shooting and reloading but only take much more precautions need it or not.