Air Guns and Cancer up date

Morning all, I posted a few years back about my diagnoses of stage four pancreatic cancer in August of 2021 during the pandemic. Dr. gave me less then six months to live. Well after over ninety rounds of chemo and the hardest battel I ever fought as of the last scan Dr. say I'm am for now CANCER FREE. I have a few side effects from all the chemo, bad neuropathy in both hands and feet and Im now on a feeding tube, both a small price for the gift of life. I've been an air gunner for over fifty years and had collected a lot of air guns but when I thought I was a goner I went on a tear and bought every air gun I ever lusted after. Well I now have a lot of guns, scopes and stuff I can post about. I thought about selling some and I might but they all helped me get through a lot. I have a 20 yard range in my back yard and would shoot on my good days but there where days when I couldn't even get out of bed. Well now that I feal among the living Im having a ball shooting all these guns. I'm mostly a spring gun guy but now have lots of PCP and for air supply my son works for a company that supply's breathable air so I have an unlimited supply, life is good. I can hope that my post well give some of you who are fighting your own battle to have hope and never give up. Well enough for now POTPIE out.
Wow!!! That is a one in a million victory over cancer. Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is about as dire a diagnosis as you can get. Congratulations!
 
Wow thanks for all the kind words, everyone. To answer some questions, between the cancer and chemo just about every part of my body was affected in some way. I know that there is always a possibility of the cancer coming back, I had the most aggressive kind of cancer there is. So try to live every day as my last. I know that love kindness and compassion from family friends and my Dr. and nurses help get me through it. I cant thank them enough. OK back to air guns. I love HW spring guns and have just about the whole line of them, but right now my Favret one is a HW 50, 125 anniversary in the red lament stock in .177. Yesterday I tuned it with a ARH plinkers kit, shot it twice to make sure it all worked. This morning I cocked it and let it set for a hour then uncocked it. Still dark out so cant shoot it yet but will chrony it today. It was shooting the new HN Barracudas 8 there 8.44gr. with a 4.51 head size shooting a average of 635.3 fps for 7.5 ft-lb will see what they do today. Ill post picks and chrono numbers next post. Potpie out.

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Holy Goly,you are a very tough and focused guy; I am so glad to hear this news; you went through hell, but your tenacity (y)has given you a new lease on life.I am also a cancer survivor; I had my pistol "engraved" read "Beat Cancer" I remember seeing a license plate that read" **** CANCER" IF California lets you use that license plate ,maybe we all should give out a shout and say the same thing. (y)
 
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Morning all, I posted a few years back about my diagnoses of stage four pancreatic cancer in August of 2021 during the pandemic. Dr. gave me less then six months to live. Well after over ninety rounds of chemo and the hardest battel I ever fought as of the last scan Dr. say I'm am for now CANCER FREE. I have a few side effects from all the chemo, bad neuropathy in both hands and feet and Im now on a feeding tube, both a small price for the gift of life. I've been an air gunner for over fifty years and had collected a lot of air guns but when I thought I was a goner I went on a tear and bought every air gun I ever lusted after. Well I now have a lot of guns, scopes and stuff I can post about. I thought about selling some and I might but they all helped me get through a lot. I have a 20 yard range in my back yard and would shoot on my good days but there where days when I couldn't even get out of bed. Well now that I feal among the living Im having a ball shooting all these guns. I'm mostly a spring gun guy but now have lots of PCP and for air supply my son works for a company that supply's breathable air so I have a unlimited supply, life is good. I can hope that my post well give some of you who are fighting your own battle to have hope and never give up. Well enough for now POTPIE out.
Today I was lubing and testing some pellets for an awesome little CO2 rifle the Artemis Cp2 when it dawn on me that I spent the whole afternoon handling lead. "I think that for all of us is a stupid thing to do, lead is poisonous". Our neurology health is much more important. I am into hunting. With a background in firearms since a teenager, Army and some competitions. I have been researching to buy a high end PCP, but I think that the reasonable thing to do is to start asking for Polymer and copper coated pellets, slugs, etc. The science and technology is out there to please a market demand.
 
Today I was lubing and testing some pellets for an awesome little CO2 rifle the Artemis Cp2 when it dawn on me that I spent the whole afternoon handling lead. "I think that for all of us is a stupid thing to do, lead is poisonous". Our neurology health is much more important. I am into hunting. With a background in firearms since a teenager, Army and some competitions. I have been researching to buy a high end PCP, but I think that the reasonable thing to do is to start asking for Polymer and copper coated pellets, slugs, etc. The science and technology is out there to please a market demand.
I fill the magazines and speed loaders with rubber gloves. still wash my hands afterwards. it just isn't worth the potential risk.
 
I've made it a habit to wash my hands regularly after shooting. I think the real solution here though would be for some of us to start requesting lead exposure tests when we get our blood work done and report the results here. You can get lead exposure from more than just handling lead, especially if you shoot indoors.

If you don't measure something then you don't really know what you're dealing with.
 
Morning all, I posted a few years back about my diagnoses of stage four pancreatic cancer in August of 2021 during the pandemic. Dr. gave me less then six months to live. Well after over ninety rounds of chemo and the hardest battel I ever fought as of the last scan Dr. say I'm am for now CANCER FREE. I have a few side effects from all the chemo, bad neuropathy in both hands and feet and Im now on a feeding tube, both a small price for the gift of life. I've been an air gunner for over fifty years and had collected a lot of air guns but when I thought I was a goner I went on a tear and bought every air gun I ever lusted after. Well I now have a lot of guns, scopes and stuff I can post about. I thought about selling some and I might but they all helped me get through a lot. I have a 20 yard range in my back yard and would shoot on my good days but there where days when I couldn't even get out of bed. Well now that I feal among the living Im having a ball shooting all these guns. I'm mostly a spring gun guy but now have lots of PCP and for air supply my son works for a company that supply's breathable air so I have a unlimited supply, life is good. I can hope that my post well give some of you who are fighting your own battle to have hope and never give up. Well enough for now POTPIE out.
A ray of hope, my Mother-in-law had Stage four metastasized breast cancer, diagnosed in 1998, she just passed at 93 a few weeks back. Keep on shooting my friend.
 
Today I was lubing and testing some pellets for an awesome little CO2 rifle the Artemis Cp2 when it dawn on me that I spent the whole afternoon handling lead. "I think that for all of us is a stupid thing to do, lead is poisonous". Our neurology health is much more important. I am into hunting. With a background in firearms since a teenager, Army and some competitions. I have been researching to buy a high end PCP, but I think that the reasonable thing to do is to start asking for Polymer and copper coated pellets, slugs, etc. The science and technology is out there to please a market demand.
Nah, this was extensively studied among auto, heavy equipment and aircraft mechanics for more than 10 years in the 90's and early '00. As you know these mechs constantly have many chemicals mixing on their skin all day on their hands and forearms and even faces in the presence of open cuts and scrapes that stayed open to the plentitude of chemicals.. Basically their extensive additional exposure to heavy metals from through the skin was not measurable.

If it makes YOU feel better then YOU wear gloves and wear a mask and don't eat the pellets. I am not doing anything because that is pointless.

There isn't even any study that shows burnt cordite inhaled from automatic or suppressed weapons. There IS a lot of motivation to find a link to this so that that they can take environmental action against shooters. They can't even find links to surface water, let a lone ground water contamination from shooting range burms, nor significantly raised pollution in the breathable in shooting ranges near cities and even indoor ranges in cities versus the cities themselves. Trust me the bad guys use ANY angle to chip any enjoyment out of anything they can. I could run a python model showing how much lead, cordite and other chemicals make it into the air or into the blood stream, as I know that other data scientists and think tanks have done and there is no angle here. That said, there are people that wear grounding wires so that electro-magnetic fields from their television and microwave don't cause them cancer so do you, boo boo, but don't try to do anyone else.
 
Morning all, I posted a few years back about my diagnoses of stage four pancreatic cancer in August of 2021 during the pandemic. Dr. gave me less then six months to live. Well after over ninety rounds of chemo and the hardest battel I ever fought as of the last scan Dr. say I'm am for now CANCER FREE. I have a few side effects from all the chemo, bad neuropathy in both hands and feet and Im now on a feeding tube, both a small price for the gift of life. I've been an air gunner for over fifty years and had collected a lot of air guns but when I thought I was a goner I went on a tear and bought every air gun I ever lusted after. Well I now have a lot of guns, scopes and stuff I can post about. I thought about selling some and I might but they all helped me get through a lot. I have a 20 yard range in my back yard and would shoot on my good days but there where days when I couldn't even get out of bed. Well now that I feal among the living Im having a ball shooting all these guns. I'm mostly a spring gun guy but now have lots of PCP and for air supply my son works for a company that supply's breathable air so I have a unlimited supply, life is good. I can hope that my post well give some of you who are fighting your own battle to have hope and never give up. Well enough for now POTPIE out.
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