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    Range diving. 186lbs

    Got off work a little earlier than usual last night and decided since it was so close to dark I'd run out to the range and see what kind of scrap I could pick up. Took a little 1 gallon bucket and picked up all the easy stuff, filled the bucket but it took about two hours. Got tired, not to mention cold (temps in the upper teens) and decided to call it a night.
    Stopped by a convenience store to grab a drink and the clerks were talking about their cats. Cats?! What does that have to do with lead you ask... Well I headed straight to wally world, strolled to the pet department and purchased 2 cat litter scoops then grabbed a 5gal bucket and headed straight back to the range.
    Two more hours work yielded a grand total of 186lbs (first small bucket included).


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    Re: Range diving. 186lbs

    And I don't even have a furnace yet.

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    Good thinking and nice haul !

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    Keep up the good work. I figure 30 to 50 pounds is a good trip to the range. I shoot some, pick some, then repeat. Key is to always bring more home than you took out.

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    Okay, I'm confused. (An increasingly normal condition at my age.)

    How do you scrounge lead at a range? The range I use has dirt berms and spent boolits and bullets are not visible.

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    A minow trap works well too. Scoop the dirt and lead in with a garden trowel or scooper or whatever you call it till half of the trap is about full, close it up and shake. Most of the dirt falls out through the mesh.
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    Re: Range diving. 186lbs

    RG1911 - where I'm at has been in drought conditions for a long time now. There are dirt berms where I scrounge but the shooters pulverise (?) the berm and then the wind exposes the lead. Picked up almost a gallon containers worth by hand ( could have easily gotten more).

    Down South - great idea. I used to have a shaker box a long time ago for this purpose and am going to assemble another after work today. They increase the yield to work ratio to where it is really enjoyable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tx308 View Post
    And I don't even have a furnace yet.

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    Re: Range diving. 186lbs

    Possum - pm sent.

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    Pick up what You can see. Pistol berms are easier than rifle berms. Dry weather is best as the soil turns almost to dust which makes finding bullets easier. I find hat lightlyushing aside the top layer of dirt exposes a huge number of bullets. I also find a 44 mag shovel helps. Fire a fee rounds into the berm and many more bullets are brought to the surface.

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    Gotta admit I never thought of a scoop and mesh as shooting supplies, but what the heck. I'll give it a try. Many thanks.

    Richard

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    I don't use a scoop as my berm is clay. The wads of clay get picked up too and are a pain. We also seem to have a huge amount of clay pigeon debris on the berms as people like them for targets.

    What I wouldn't give for a nice, sandy berm without all the other garbage on it. Use a seize and go to town.

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    +1 to that. Ohio clay soil clumps and won't sift. Got lucky this summer....we had a drought and the berms turned to baked clayy and pulverized. Used a stainless steel cat litter scoop to get over 800 pounds while the getting was good!
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    I am thinking about drilling holes in a square edged shovel, something like a old coal shovel. With the holes, the dry dirt can fall out maybe? anyone ever done something like this?
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    Re: Range diving. 186lbs

    Jal5 - back in the day I originally started with a metal kitchen spaghetti strainer. Don't see why your plan won't work. But you can probably get a strainer at the dollar store (if you have one close).

    Last night I cut and slapped together a couple of 2x4s into a frame about 2' square. Then nailed some 1/4" screen on one side "tada" a shaker box is born. I left two of the 2x's about 18" longer for handles. I'll add legs later.

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    Range diving. 186lbs

    I have to hand pick everything. I live on an old volcanic mountain range and the burm we shoot into is an old cinder pot. Boolits and cinders are about the same size.
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    It is amazing how quickly the eyes and fingers learn to identify a bullet, pick it up, and verify it is lead based upon weight.

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    CHAPTER 1
    What I'd heard and found to be true is that after the berm has dried out for several days following a hard rain, there's lots of lead lying there saying "pick me UP !"
    So I did.

    Like many of us, I picked up range turds by hand. But I realized there had to be a better way than what I was doing.
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    I like Duke's machine but it's complex and I haven't gotten around to building anything that good yet. Also, I want something portable I can take with me to the range and scavenge before the shooting public shows up.
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    CHAPTER 2
    so I brought the garden soil sifter my Father made for my Mother when she was planting flowers. I never could bring myself to throw it away so I held on to it thru several moves and many years. It's made of 1/4" mesh but when you fill it with 10 Lbs of lead and dirt, well, you know the drill. It seemed to work reasonably well but was rickety so I designed something more substantial. Also I rake the lead down the slope so I can gather more of it in one shovel full, saving time before I become a target of the weekenders.

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