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It has been said for half a century not to use battery lead, because they use cadmium in battery alloy, and that
"cadmium in the alloy will ruin the lead for casting." Sorry I can't give you a citation.
Let me repeat the warnings that cadmium is going to mess you up physically to the point of leaving you paralyzed or dead if you use it long enough.
last but not least, if anyone finds out that you have deliberately loaded cadmium into lead and scattered it around the landscape, you may be facing federal prosecution for spreading toxic heavy metal compounds. The owners of the range may sue you for having put federally regulated toxic metals into the soil.
The entire town of picher, oklahoma, was bought out by the EPA, and torn down because of lead and zinc contamination of the soil, and cadmium in the aquifer. Tar creek is so toxic that people have died just by peeing into the water.
Seriously. If you are found by the feds to have created ammo and fired that ammo, releasing cadmium into the atmosphere and land, you WILL be in deep crap. you don't have the necessary papers to do so. You will maybe pay fines, go to federal prison, and have to pay for remediation of contaminated lands. This is what happens in cases like that.
Many people have gone through this exact thing for dumping asbestos building materials.
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