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View Poll Results: Do you have a lifetime supply of lead?

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  • No, What I Have Won't Last

    790 51.77%
  • Yes, I Have Enough to Make It to the Other Side

    348 22.80%
  • I Just Don't Know

    228 14.94%
  • I Hoard for the Sake of Hoarding Itself

    160 10.48%
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Thread: Do You Have a Lifetime Supply?

  1. #161
    Boolit Master



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    Yes, I have enough to last me my lifetime. I've been hauling this stuff around since 1965 and adding to it as I go.......more than I will ever cast or shoot

  2. #162
    Boolit Grand Master

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    I'm about 350#s closer today thanks to the mailman. And I'm due for an oil change so that means another five gallon bucket of wheel weights.


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  3. #163
    Boolit Master trapper9260's Avatar
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    I do not know if I have enough .I have about a ton .But I am always looking for more.If I can get it cheap or for nothing I will take it .I never refuse if someone has it that way or willing to give me it to getir off there hands.Beside I also try and save all that i shoot for testing round in my bullet stop.Also any reclaim lead.
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  4. #164
    Boolit Master
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    Yes I have a lifetime supply of lead, also powder, primers and cases. I will need more lube but that problem is easily solved.
    Paul G.
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  5. #165
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    Not me. I've prolly got 300 pounds. Not even close.
    Life is a series of bullseyes and backstraps - Ted Nugent

  6. #166
    Boolit Master

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    Yes I am set. But I still pick up any I can get locally. I don't know what is wrong with me.

  7. #167
    Boolit Grand Master popper's Avatar
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    The constitution and now SCOTUS say we have the right to guns but no guarantee of shooting them. With the number of ranges closing, taxes rising, $ depreciating and my age, probably.

  8. #168
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    I have to keep revising how much a lifetime supply is. I used to think 1000 lbs would be lots. But I'm casting more for other people now and using a lot more lead than I used to.

  9. #169
    Boolit Buddy
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    well, i think i am at about 700lbs.

    not a bad stash, but not allot

    i dont shoot much centerfire anymore anyway, will it last me my whole life, no, im 23 years old.

    i still have many years of shooting left, but i figure i got a good start.

  10. #170
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    Im up to 1500# so its a good start but im always looking for more never turn any down.

  11. #171
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    Stash 0#s been buying my cast boolits from local gun store. Been buying my moulds and other things. I still shoot about 600rds per week

  12. #172
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    I'm just getting started into casting so I only have about #500 of wheel weights. I have not cast a boolit yet. I have all the equipment with the exception of moulds. This is somthing I have had to get into as change purse would allow.
    A bumble bee is considerable faster than a John Deere tractor

  13. #173
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    Stash 0#s been buying my cast boolits from local gun store. Been buying my moulds and other things. I still shoot about 600rds per week
    I don't suppose you are shooting somewhere at which you could recover your own lead?

  14. #174
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    Only about 400 pounds at my house but that is plently. Once it goes I am safe as long as I have enough in the checking account to order some more form Rotometals

  15. #175
    Boolit Bub
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    i have 700lbs of ww on hand in 1 lb bars and each year i pick up over 100 lbs free from my local repair shop each year. i should have enough to last me most of my life.

  16. #176
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    I have about 1200 lbs. of linotype in pigs and about 500 lbs; in loose type and ingots. I'm 65 and in good health, but you can never have enough linotype. It's getting harder in Kalifornia to get away far enough to shoot often enough.

  17. #177
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    If I had a bunch of portable bullet traps I could easily take with me when I go to the range I would make what I have last a lifetime!! But as is I am resupplying all the time. Just got a 50 lb package in the mail today and want to cast in the morning!!

  18. #178
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    In the past month I have added around 700 lbs. to my stash. I never had this much ahead even when I was shooting a lot.

  19. #179
    Boolit Grand Master



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    A life time supply? That's not possible considering my plan is to live forever just to tick off my pension plan.

    Rick
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    "Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack on our liberty, we encourage it." Samuel Adams

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    What is a pension?

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check