Hunters, What do you do about lead fragmentation?

Yeah finding a piece of shot does wreck the meal. SO then sir, the simple solution is a head shot right ? No problem, seems simple enough. Waiting......................... Oh, come on LOL

Sometimes you do miss a piece of shot. But, in the case of a bullet, most don't fragment to any degree. When cleaning and preparing the meat to pack don't you remove the bruised damaged stuff ? Fragments will leave a " track ". I at least cut along the track, generally I remove the damaged meat.

A good job of cleaning and cutting should leave only the rare piece you miss. I always remind folks, this is not farm raised, so please chew carefully, just in case.

I use a bullet that generally doesn't fragment. When it does, I deal with it by rethinking that particular projectile in whatever rifle I happen to be using it, trying to figure out why it did that, and then choosing a bullet that generally doesn't fragment.

Most times, the bullet stays intact, which you can verify by weighing the recovered slug. Other than that, I'm not really sure what you mean by "deal with"?

i handload my own ammunition and i know that lead fragmentation means that either you screwed up big time or you intentionally cause it for non-sporting purposes.

I intentionally made lead fragmentation to combat overpenetration problems of full power defensive ammunition. it's pretty simple how it works. you shoot a pistol jhp (lead/copper) at such velocity and spin that it fragments like a frangible inside a soft target.

this ammunition cannot be used for hunting due to what it does. not only is it probably illegal and unethical, you also won't get any meat.

properly designed hunting ammunition do not heave lead fragmentation problems.

I do my own butchering of large and small game. I use lead bullets for both.

It is relatively easy to follow the bullet track. I don't worry about lead fragments.

Me and millions before me used lead bullets to down fresh meat.

Better eating game with the once in a while gamble of lead frags then store bought pink slime with all those hormones and chemicals

I bite on it spit it and simply continue on with the meal

Only time I trashed meat was when I found some nasty green pus on a deer leg turned out to be a bad infection cut it out and then burned it after talking to DWL

Lead shot in birds and small game has occasionally been interesting to "find" in food. Bullets in larger game just aren't a problem. First, it's unlikely to be missed in the butchering. More importantly, while ongoing ingestion of lead compounds has been associated with toxicity, that isn't true of the metallic lead in shot or bullets. Even the ban on lead shot in waterfowling was based on poor science (the authors suggested further study, not legal action), and California's limitation on lead projectiles is completely unscientific. We're talking lead here, not plutonium.

I assure you that lead in shot or bullet frags are not a hazard except maybe to the teeth.

There is just not much change of lead poisoning from this type of lead.

You deal with fragments by trimming liberally around the wound channel. It doesn't require any high-tech bullet or much thought really.

i only had a problem with 1 kill using federal power shok cartridge. it made a mess. i've never used it again. an don't recommend others to use it either. i've never had a problem prior or since using hornady, fusion, remington an my handloads. as for shot placement either headshot or lungs. as for those that beleive that lead in meat isn't toxic. you are miss informed, low level toxicity until cooked then the heat amplifies toxic levels.

Lead fragmentation is not a problem unless you are a liberal making up crap to try to ban hunting.