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!
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Air Guns and Cancer up date
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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 
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.
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. Upvote 0
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.
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I fill the magazines and speed loaders with rubber gloves. still wash my hands afterwards. it just isn't worth the potential risk.
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Beating Cancer is the greatest victory there is.
Live every day as if it were your last! Please keep sharing your story where ever and whenever you can. Beating stage 4 is an inspiration to others.
Thanks for including us in your journey and enjoy.
Live every day as if it were your last! Please keep sharing your story where ever and whenever you can. Beating stage 4 is an inspiration to others.
Thanks for including us in your journey and enjoy.
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When I bring the PCP guns out to play away from home I'll throw some gloves in my range bag, seems like it gets more stuff all the time anywho.
Easy to wash up at home, not so much otherwise. PB ammo is rarely handling raw lead, even the .22's are waxed or greased.
Easy to wash up at home, not so much otherwise. PB ammo is rarely handling raw lead, even the .22's are waxed or greased.
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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.
If you don't measure something then you don't really know what you're dealing with.
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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.
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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.
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