DRT Terminal shock results on game

[Jfjfrye]

 

[Macintosh]

I see people mentioning meat around the wound channel discolored from tungsten powder. The main reason Ive been shooting monos is to minimize meat damage. Are you eating this discolored meat, or trimming it? Is there an off flavor or texture? Compare to meat loss with a fragmenting lead bullet?

 

[Jfjfrye]

I see people mentioning meat around the wound channel discolored from tungsten powder. The main reason Ive been shooting monos is to minimize meat damage. Are you eating this discolored meat, or trimming it? Is there an off flavor or texture? Compare to meat loss with a fragmenting lead bullet?

Anything that’s affected by the bullet is usually non edible and it’s trimmed out no matter what type of bullet.

 

[WI-Carcosa]

I see people mentioning meat around the wound channel discolored from tungsten powder. The main reason Ive been shooting monos is to minimize meat damage. Are you eating this discolored meat, or trimming it? Is there an off flavor or texture? Compare to meat loss with a fragmenting lead bullet?

I am trimming the discolored meat but thus far it is less to trim than when I shot deer with lead frangible and I am less concerned with a piece of tungsten in the grind than some lead if I did miss something small. I need more data points, but so far these perform like a lead frangible, perhaps not quite as destructive as an eldm/tmk/sst. I should have a few more at the very least data points to post after this upcoming weekend

 

[hibernation]

I see people mentioning meat around the wound channel discolored from tungsten powder. The main reason Ive been shooting monos is to minimize meat damage. Are you eating this discolored meat, or trimming it? Is there an off flavor or texture? Compare to meat loss with a fragmenting lead bullet?

Anyone have any data on tungsten and human health? Or wildlife? I realize that lead in meat is a controversial topic, but that's a consideration for a lot of people currently using monos. I'm a little hesitant to jump on some other heavy metal without much research to point to.

 

[cubdriver84d]

Anyone have any data on tungsten and human health? Or wildlife? I realize that lead in meat is a controversial topic, but that's a consideration for a lot of people currently using monos. I'm a little hesitant to jump on some other heavy metal without much research to point to.

Tungsten shot has been considered nontoxic for a while (along with steel, bismuth, etc). Here's the gist of what perplexity gave me when I asked for a comparison to lead:

 

[hibernation]

Tungsten shot has been considered nontoxic for a while (along with steel, bismuth, etc). Here's the gist of what perplexity gave me when I asked for a comparison to lead:View attachment 969502

Good point. The difference in surface area could matter here for absorption, distinct pellets vs sintered powder. The rarity of tungsten poisoning is kind of what interests me, is that mostly because we don't have much exposure?