Zinc wheel weight manufacturer links

[MarkK]

FYI: The site below looks like it should be useful for IDing the zinc containing weights. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!


http://www.leadfreewheels.org/zinc.shtml

[44man]

It looks like our free or cheap lead supply might be coming to an end.

[imashooter2]

If these get popular, range scrap may be a no go too:

http://nationalbullet.com/index.php?name=Z_Bullets

Now's the time to put away whatever you think you're going to need for the future.

[John Boy]

... based on my stock pile of WW ingots, at 300gr per drop - I've got 32,667 bullets to go [smilie=1:

[Bass Ackward]

New T-Shirt slogan:

Conserve lead resourses. Shoot smaller calibers. :grin:

[Tracy]

... based on my stock pile of WW ingots, at 300gr per drop - I've got 32,667 bullets to go [smilie=1:

Hope you're at least 80, if you expect that to last you!

I remember several years ago when surplus powder was cheap; a fellow I knew on a gunsmith forum bought a 55 gallon drum of IMR4895 from Jeff Bartlett, with the expectation that he would be set for life. In 3 years he was scraping the bottom!
Actually, that's not as many rounds as it would seem. A gallon holds about 8 lbs so 55 gallons would be 440 lbs x 7000= a little over 3 million grains or about 67,000 shots of full-power .30/06. I'll take a drum each of 4895, RL7, 2400 and Red Dot (although the RD would weigh substantially less).

I'm not too worried about lead; if it gets too bad I'll just go to SE Missouri and do some prospecting!

[ron brooks]

Two things:

(1) This is why you can't have enough lead stock piled.

(2) I wonder what they will find is awful and horrible about zinc in 5 or 10 years?

Ron