For some perspective:
I've been shooting hard cast lead bullets for the past 30 years. I've been casting lead bullets for at least 20 years. I've smelted about a ton of lead wheel weights and another six or seven hundred pounds of linotype. I've been handling pure lead airgun pellets for over 40 years and have been shooting firearms for at least that long. I exercise basic personal hygiene and respiratory precautions - by respiratory precautions, I mean standing upwind from a smelting pot or placing a fan by my casting pot to blow the smoke and fumes away from my face.
Maybe my lead levels are a little elevated - I wouldn't know because I experience none of the symptoms of lead poisoning and thus have no interest in being tested.
I've known a LOT of shooters over the years and never have I heard anyone complain about lead poisoning. Not once.
We owe it to ourselves to be conscientious about our health but, honestly, I think people react a little hysterically when it comes to lead.
Yep. This. I've never heard of a case of lead poisoning by exposure...by direct entry into flesh, absolutely...in my life. This involves a lot of folks that handle a lotta lead over a lifetime. Much ado about nothing, but that's only my opinion. If lead dust or pellets or whatever bothers you, by all means, glove up, mask up, it's certainly the accepted fashion these days!