Mr.RevolverGuy
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Gentlemen,
Due to an incident I was wondering what would you all consider a safe amount of time to spend shooting at a indoor range?
So a friend of mine that I shoot with often at the same indoor range called me today with a range of emotions (depressed, mad, skeptical) etc etc due to the fact he got his blood results back and he had high lead levels. The Doctor said 1-19 were the acceptable levels and he is like at 22. He called to alert me to get tested because we usually shoot at the same indoor range. I am a little worried but I will wait to see what the blood results come back with. Neither of us smoke and he even takes more of a precaution than I do, in the fact that he usually brings along what he calls his shooting overalls and changes into them before shooting then takes them off and puts them in a garbage bag when leaving. I never change my clothing until I get home then I will shower after cleaning my guns and wash my clothing separate from anything else. We both never leave the range without washing our hands and face, we both even carry soap in our range bags just in case the range doesn't have any. We both where nitryle gloves when cleaning our weapons as well.
Neither of us do any casting of our own bullets, but we both reload and for the past 2 years we have only shot berry's or Rainier plated bullets. My reloading is done in an open garage during the summer and a heated garage during the winter, my buddy has his setup is in his basement.
The range we visit had NRA help in constructing it and supposedly has adequate ventilation. I can tell you they have a vent behind each shooting station that sucks in air from the outside and blows your smoke down range away from you. Then the air gets sucked out at the end of the range and filtered before going back to the open air outside. We have actually showed up at the range a couple of times and it was shutdown for routine maintenance where they had some ventilation folks changing the filters. Now I do not know if they were just blowing smoke (mo pun intended) but they say it is done every 6 months and it is painful because it cost about $4500.00 to change the filters out and have the system cleaned. I just figured well at least we know it is being done which gave me some piece of mind.
As I stated previously before I worry to much I will let my blood test results come back.
The reason I ask this question is because the Doctor told him no matter what sort of ventilation is being used, spending that much time on an indoor range was not good. He told the doctor depending on the month we could spend from 1 to 4 hours a month at the range. He said the doctor got very excited and said that was way to much. The doctor said look if you have to shoot do it at an outdoor range stay away from the indoor. This sucks because it is like 14 degree's here today. Basically we spend about an hour on the weekends at the range, I would say an average per year we visit the range about twice a month.
Due to an incident I was wondering what would you all consider a safe amount of time to spend shooting at a indoor range?
So a friend of mine that I shoot with often at the same indoor range called me today with a range of emotions (depressed, mad, skeptical) etc etc due to the fact he got his blood results back and he had high lead levels. The Doctor said 1-19 were the acceptable levels and he is like at 22. He called to alert me to get tested because we usually shoot at the same indoor range. I am a little worried but I will wait to see what the blood results come back with. Neither of us smoke and he even takes more of a precaution than I do, in the fact that he usually brings along what he calls his shooting overalls and changes into them before shooting then takes them off and puts them in a garbage bag when leaving. I never change my clothing until I get home then I will shower after cleaning my guns and wash my clothing separate from anything else. We both never leave the range without washing our hands and face, we both even carry soap in our range bags just in case the range doesn't have any. We both where nitryle gloves when cleaning our weapons as well.
Neither of us do any casting of our own bullets, but we both reload and for the past 2 years we have only shot berry's or Rainier plated bullets. My reloading is done in an open garage during the summer and a heated garage during the winter, my buddy has his setup is in his basement.
The range we visit had NRA help in constructing it and supposedly has adequate ventilation. I can tell you they have a vent behind each shooting station that sucks in air from the outside and blows your smoke down range away from you. Then the air gets sucked out at the end of the range and filtered before going back to the open air outside. We have actually showed up at the range a couple of times and it was shutdown for routine maintenance where they had some ventilation folks changing the filters. Now I do not know if they were just blowing smoke (mo pun intended) but they say it is done every 6 months and it is painful because it cost about $4500.00 to change the filters out and have the system cleaned. I just figured well at least we know it is being done which gave me some piece of mind.
As I stated previously before I worry to much I will let my blood test results come back.
The reason I ask this question is because the Doctor told him no matter what sort of ventilation is being used, spending that much time on an indoor range was not good. He told the doctor depending on the month we could spend from 1 to 4 hours a month at the range. He said the doctor got very excited and said that was way to much. The doctor said look if you have to shoot do it at an outdoor range stay away from the indoor. This sucks because it is like 14 degree's here today. Basically we spend about an hour on the weekends at the range, I would say an average per year we visit the range about twice a month.
(you would figure though, levying a fine on violators would be a nice source of extra income for these cities, but who ever said the government operates intelligently?)
) and his was 9. Sometimes the first floor can have about half the level the basement has - still wasn't acceptable. Don't know how many years it's been that way. The solution was to install a pipe/vent that went from below the foundation all the way out the roof with a fan always on. Around 1000 bucks. Or you could just get the pipe from the basement up without drilling through the foundation.