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It's hard to say what made YepYep's fingers blackened after shooting. If it was from the pellets, then I suspect they are graphite lubed (probably with a oil carrier as well). lead alloy pellets shouldn't leave any black on your fingers unless they are coated/lubed. From what I remember air exposed lead forms a whitish oxide. I have some old lead bars kicking around from the 80's when I worked in the lead smelter. There is apparently some controversy over this graphite coating issue, I dug up an old post topic43012.html

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Iacio ergo sum

Nope nope nope... I think you thought my finger got black coloured and couldn't be washed away?! Nah~ that's not the case... I meaned it's like very similar before when I used the Crosman pellets.

Anyway, I have my 'Lead Off' wipes I bought years ago and still a good wipes to clean my finger tips~


Edit..... And Duke~ you use this pellet too~ didn't you see your 'dirty' fingers?!

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~Plinkers~
FX-M3-22 Compact#PP700-Carbine#Diana48-177#XS28M-25@26fpe#HW45 Beast#AW-Custom Z-Killer DE
~Competitors~
FWB300SU#Tau-7#IZH-46M#FWB-65#CP88-C
~Target~
HW 30s/35e/97k/40+Extender/P3+Scope/70#CZ200s Laminated@10fpe#AA ProSport-177@12fpe

NopeNope, I lick my fingers between loading pellets, makes for good lube and easy loading!
When I worked in lead smelter, there was a bunch of guys belonged to a trade called "leadburners", they make all sorts of tings out of lead, sort of like welders do with steel. Anyhow all of them were totally bald, and I bet none lived to over 55. I got deep litter from a couple of them when I designed a fiberglass duct to replace a 100 yr old lead duct. I was into modern material (and of course 10x less weight), but they wanted me to use the company product. I prevailed, but it was a 54" diameter duct and it hung off the top of a tower, and it was pink.. you can guess what they called it. So, I actually take care of handling pellets, and I didn't notice any residue from these Sig Venom, but I only shot a few groups and weighed a bunch of them, and not all in one setting.

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Yes, lead oxide is usually white and quite poisonous, apparently. As for baldness from lead fumes, etc, I was going bald long before I started casting bullets - in 1973.
The swimming instructor in basic training called me "baldy". I was 22 yrs. old. This is not to say working with lead won't cause that affliction.

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Daryl

I think of one possibility... I actually didn't notice that before just like you, but last time I mainly using the Pro Sport which I already found I needed to push hard to seat the pellet into the PS breech... Maybe that's the reason because I used more effort with my thumb, so I 'wiped' off more residence and transferred it onto my thumb.....

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~Plinkers~
FX-M3-22 Compact#PP700-Carbine#Diana48-177#XS28M-25@26fpe#HW45 Beast#AW-Custom Z-Killer DE
~Competitors~
FWB300SU#Tau-7#IZH-46M#FWB-65#CP88-C
~Target~
HW 30s/35e/97k/40+Extender/P3+Scope/70#CZ200s Laminated@10fpe#AA ProSport-177@12fpe