Radioactive Oryx

nontypical234

New Member
Messages
3
I hope to be hunting about 20 miles from the Trinity Site at White Sands Missle Range for Oryx next fall and have heard that Oryx make excellent table fare. But being at the end of the food chain, I'm not real sure about how many x-rays I'll eat per steak. Has anybody ever heard any stats or had a concern about this?
 
I haven't heard of any problems, but it does make you wonder. They have the site fenced in, but 60 year later, no vegetaion grows inside that fence. :)
 
Uranium, Plutonium, Neptunium, and other actinides are present in the soil and plants around us from above-ground testing of nuclear weapons long ago. With half-lives of millions of years, they will always be there. Unfortunate fact of life.

Based on a population study of 100,000 people there MAY be 2 to 4 additional fatalities from each isotope due to cancer from these various contaminations. With statistics showing that in the same lifetime period, almost 1 in 4 (25,000!) people will develope another type of cancer (lung, breast, bone, etc.) I wouldn't worry too much about eating your oryx.

You would be better off to worry about tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, lightning, heart disease, or drunk drivers on the way to WSMR.
 
I'm with Kilbuc! We're only thinking about your safety and well being! Either of us would gladly take your tag. Think about your family, man!LOL!
 
Thanks for the physics lesson Blank - good information to know so I will now enjoy grilling. As far as the other guys, I still have to get the tag!
 
I've actually been to the site, ground zero so to speak, and there is vegatation inside the fence. I can't remember the exact figures, but the radiation still present is about equivalent to flying in an airliner - not much really. nmtaxi is correct - the area is fenced, but open to visitors twice a year.
Avery
 
Yeah, that's the problem with being a supervisor here at 2 nuclear fuel facilities. You get to learn all this scientific stuff, and then find out that the sunshine at the beach is really worse than your job. Now I always wear a hat, SPF30 sunscreen, and Polaroid glasses to prevent those cataracts. I shot my 2 gemsbok in Africa, but wouldn't hesitat to shoot another in NM, if I could get drawn!
 

Click-a-Pic ... Details & Bigger Photos
Back
Top Bottom