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    At about 600lbs now. Would like to put 1000# un reserve and replace as needed.
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    Im now 65 and beleive I have enough alloy, approx 2 ton and about 50,000 boolets cast up to last me ? i usually go through 3 to 4 hundred lbs a year but just to be sure i'll take anything that comes my way i can get for free.

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    have approx. 1000 Lbs and hope to be to 2000 by years end.. Berms of sand to catch what I shoot now ..
    pick up lead where I can any worry about mixs later
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    Will my sons be able to source lead when they're my age? How about their sons and daughters? What about the great grandchildren and their children and grandchildren and so on?

    My goal is to set no limit; to never say, "OK, that's it, I'm finished."

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    No limits, cant ever have to much

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    Unless the EPA gets their grubby little fingers into some legislation it will always be worth at least a dollar a pound.

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    right now have about 500#. always on the lookout for more.

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    16 ton and what do you get
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    nother day older and deeper in debt
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    11 milk crates, mostly full, and at 72, I'm still looking. At my passing somebody will get the giggles and a sore back.

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    My goal is to have one rifle and one pistol and about 40 lbs of 94-3-3 alloy left when I die. That should fit in the coffin with me
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    I've got about 700 lbs of lino, 600 of pure, and 5- 5gal buckets of ww. My son built me a bullet catcher, and I've got another one I'm working on. But I can't quit looking For lead were ever I go it's just a addiction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirtdgger View Post
    ......But I can't quit looking For lead were ever I go it's just a addiction.
    See handling scrap lead and casting is BAD FOR YOU. This poor member is addicted! Time for an intervention!
    Line to intervene on his Lino stash for his own good forms someplace in Missouri.

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    I'm 57 and have enough on the shelf to shoot 5,000 two hundred grain boolits a year for the next 25 years. Since the vast majority of my casts are lighter than that, I'm no longer actively looking for lead. Of course if I stumble across some, there's no sense in letting it lay...
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    More than anyone else. He who has the most lead, wins.

    After reading some of the replies, I'm a ways behind in this race.

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    I only have 200 lbs so far but I'm new to all this. equal amounts of coww, lead pipe and range lead. still looking though.

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    I mostly look for tin based lead alloy and hardening alloy. I'm doing ok with 50/50 solder, but would like a lot more. 100 kilo would be nice.
    I find lino very elusive and have only a Kilogram or so. I recently missed a healthy supply but was a month late to the scrapyard.
    WW's and to a lesser degree sheet lead I'm ok for, but if it's free or cheap enough I will get more. It's money in the bank and can be traded or sold if need be.

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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