450 lbs of Lead and Still Looking

[fredj338]

450# is a good start. The way lead is disappearing. get all you can find, it doesn't go bad.

[Charlie Two Tracks]

I have about 600# of WW and 50# of Lino and 5# of Tin. That should do me. I just gave my WW source to a guy who is getting into casting. I though about keeping it all to myself but............ya gotta help the new, younger caster at times.

[canyon-ghost]

I'm somewhere over 1000 pounds, and I don't care how much over!! More, more, more!

[Jailer]

I've got about 3,300 lbs in ingots and another 10-5 gallon pails to melt down yet. Yes the obsession has me too.

Get out there and get it while you can. I've only been collecting for a little over a year now so it can be done, you just have to be motivated to do it.

[Powellcole5490]

I'm somewhere over 1000 pounds, and I don't care how much over!! More, more, more!

Canyon ghost,

Well I guess you live in Canyon. I'm station in Aurora, CO but I grew up in Amarillo. Man I miss Texas....

[fallout4x4]

If i goto the range once a month and blow off 200 rounds of 45acp thats 200*230gr=46000grs/7000=6.57lbs per month times 240 months (if i live 20 more years which is quite doable) so 6.57*240=1577 lbs for a lifetime of shooting my pistol. And thats only ONE pistol. I dont have enough lead.....

[Springfield]

You need more than you think. My kids are 8 and 10. I figure in the next few years they will start cowboy shooting with me. So figure if we all 3 shoot twice a month for 10 years( they will be going to college then, I hope, and I'll be 67), average weight of bullets to be 200 grains, a box of pistol and a box of rifle each, that will be 17 lbs a month, 205 lbs a year, 2050 lbs for a ten year total. That doesn't count for when my wife shoots with us, nor practice, nor if I ever get my shotmaker done. So I figure 4000 lbs is the minimum stockpile I need.

[Bob Krack]

There is empirical scientific evidence that suggests that hoarders get a rush of endorphins when they add to their collection. Becoming addicted to the endorphins is a very real addiction, similar to the high brought about by heroin. This is one reason why pornography (which also releases endorphins into your brain) is so pervasive and destructive, it is momentary, and leaves you searching for the next high. And your brain needs more and more of it for it to be satisfied. For some its food, some alcohol, drugs, sex, yoga, running, etc. It seems harmless, and we live in a society of over indulgence, therefore most of us can identify with compulsive behavior and actually view it as being normal!

If you want to sell your lead please give me a PM. I don't have enough lead yet! (que spooky laugh)

How true (it seems) Chris,

Good seeing ya still having a healthy sense of humor. EVEN if it is 100% true!

Ya just can't have too much (unless you are running or swimming).

Bob

[Canuck Bob]

I got 100# of Lawerence Mag shot cheap and am accumulating 200# of soft lead and 4# tin to alloy up 300# of roughly equivalent WW/PB 50-50 with tin. Good for my 32-20 and heat treatable for the rest.

My heaviest bullet is 270 gr thats 7700 bullets. Considering my bullet weight range and actual gun usage I estimate that I can mold better than 10,000 bullets. I figured I was done with lead. Sounded like lots.

Now you guys got me thinking! A few hundred bullets for each of 4 rifles per year, my usage, a guy could burn up 1200 to 1500 bullets a year! Now I understand why pistol shooters measure their needs in tons!

As far as addiction, it ain't addiction until it graduates to threats of divorce or stealing lead! Until then it is a harmless hobby!