Pellets???
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:33 am
After the post about cooking pheasants, I was pondering eating meat with lead pellets. How about the lead pellets?
I prefer to use #6 so that most go through but there are bound to be some that stay and I cannot seem to find.
I got a javelina last year (bow hunt) and it was full of pellets. Apparently, it had been raiding the rancher's garbage or whatever. They are tough little boogers. I did the best I could to eliminate the pellets but it had a lot around the backbone. Wife made it into burrito meat involving long time stewing in rather acidic broth, so I was apprehensive about using it. FIRST BITE: GOT A PELLET! It got pitched.
Now, you sure don't have to cook pheasant (or any upland birds) nearly as long as javelina so I don't think the risk is nearly as much, except for dental hazards. The pellets, I think will pass through but I was not sure about dissolution. I have enough cognitive losses at my age -- just don't need any more.
What, What, What Would You Do? (If you are old enough to get that jingle, you too should be concerned about cognitive losses! )
I prefer to use #6 so that most go through but there are bound to be some that stay and I cannot seem to find.
I got a javelina last year (bow hunt) and it was full of pellets. Apparently, it had been raiding the rancher's garbage or whatever. They are tough little boogers. I did the best I could to eliminate the pellets but it had a lot around the backbone. Wife made it into burrito meat involving long time stewing in rather acidic broth, so I was apprehensive about using it. FIRST BITE: GOT A PELLET! It got pitched.
Now, you sure don't have to cook pheasant (or any upland birds) nearly as long as javelina so I don't think the risk is nearly as much, except for dental hazards. The pellets, I think will pass through but I was not sure about dissolution. I have enough cognitive losses at my age -- just don't need any more.
What, What, What Would You Do? (If you are old enough to get that jingle, you too should be concerned about cognitive losses! )