Do You Have a Lifetime Supply?

[btroj]

My goal is to have a stash large enough to be on the show about hoarders!

Please don't tell my wife I said that, divorce is expensive!

[MGySgt]

My goal is to have a stash large enough to be on the show about hoarders!

Please don't tell my wife I said that, divorce is expensive!

Yea - she may take half of your stash in lead!

[no34570]

I got over 200kgs of Linotype lead,150 kgs of Wheel weights,then about 100 of pure lead,this should do me awhile I reckon........my precious!

[OverMax]

guidogoose: I paid 60 cents a pound for it. They were so happy to get rid of it they even helped me load it and "thanked me

When I bought my linotype I paid 0.15 cents a lb. But had to buy 2000 lbs as a requirement. Sold half off to a friend. Kept the balance. Best deal I have ever ran into by word of mouth.

[crashguy]

I know how much lead I have, but, not how much time. That was a very deep poll.

[bowfin]

I know how much lead I have, but, not how much time. That was a very deep poll.

Time is indeed the unknown quantity...except we know that our "stash" of time can only goes down, never be replenished. So I don't want to waste my steadily diminishing stock of time accruing stuff I will probably never use. That's why I decided I am done with scrounging lead. I need to spend more time shooting it, and THEN if I get to the end of the stash, I'll have made good work of what I have now, and can start over.

Now, if you can do the math and see you will need more, than it is only prudent to keep acquiring. If you aren't really sure, and you are 20 years old, then keep acquiring. If someone says, "I have a hundred pounds of lead I'm going to throw in the dumpster unless you want it for free.", that's a no brainer to take it. But right now, every hour spent on the back end of the boolit making process takes it away from the front end, which is taking my sons shooting the .38 S&W that Montana Charlie sold me last winter.

[imashooter2]

Time is indeed the unknown quantity...except we know that our "stash" of time can only goes down, never be replenished. So I don't want to waste my steadily diminishing stock of time accruing stuff I will probably never use. That's why I decided I am done with scrounging lead. I need to spend more time shooting it, and THEN if I get to the end of the stash, I'll have made good work of what I have now, and can start over.

...and let the people say, AMEN!

[Kraschenbirn]

This afternoon, after unloading the last bucket of the raw range scrap I 'mined' last week, I ran a quick thumbnail inventory. Counting what's already cast/lubed/sized, and reloaded ammunition on-hand, at my present rate of consumption I'm good for about 5-6 years...but I plan on being around longer than that.

Bill

[H.Callahan]

I'm good ...



... as long as I die in the next couple of months.

[Freightman]

I guess if I have a sieve and a shovel I have a lifetime supply! went to the range last evening and in less than an hour had 300# of 95% hard cast boolits and that didn't even scratch the surface.

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

I would have if EDK from the St Louie area weren't my older brother!

Every year at Quigley he picks up the tab for the motel room and some meals. I bring him about 300lbs of WW cast into 3 +/- lb ingots.

Rich
Sua Sponte

[skeettx]

You are blessed to have a brother that shoots
Mike

[Alan in Vermont]

In the past week I have added about 160 lbs of range lead to my stash. Not a lot judging by what others seem to be "mining" but it's still that much more than I had.

In that same week I only fired 850 grs. total so I'm running way ahead based on that. (Five test loads with 358429s.)

[RobS]

Nope not enough. I thought about a boolit trap on several occasions just don’t have the means to make it…………..yet. As WW alloy is being replaced by democratic, tree hugging hippy zinc and iron variants I keep thinking it’s about time to make such a device so I can recycle.

[David2011]

Do I have a lifetime supply?

The missing answer option: I hope not.

David

[genesis]

I recover/recycle my lead from my home made 4 X 4 X 4 sand trap. Works pretty good. Every couple of years it takes me a full day to sift through the sand and recover 300 to 600 pounds depending on how much sand I wanna sift through. I should be good for life. No more worries about lead scarcity, as long as I shoot on my home range.

Don <><

[sw282]

l added about 400 pds to my stash this week from a range l have been visiting while working out of town. Guy who cleans the traps has been selling it to me for $20 a 3gal bucket full. These weigh 95-100 pds. As a "handgun only" range l dont think l will be getting much of the AK 47 steel jkt stuff. l hope to get app 85% lead per bucket

[Down South]

Last calculation I did, I had three tons of mostly COWW, which included several hundred lbs of Foundry Type, about 100 lbs of Mono and Lino, 1,000 lbs of pure, about 30 lbs of tin. That does not include the Peuter stash I have gathered.

Lifetime supply? I'm still collecting. I look at as an investment.

[bslim]

If you have an indoor range close at hand, it's worth the time to go and visit them. Most of the ones around here consider cleaning and disposal of range lead to be a costly part of their business.

[Old Ironsights]

If you have an indoor range close at hand, it's worth the time to go and visit them. Most of the ones around here consider cleaning and disposal of range lead to be a costly part of their business.

Make up a business card that says you are a "heavy metals reclamation & recycling specialist".

May as well look legit.