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    How is This For A Score?

    6 45 gallon barrels full of range scrap for free.

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    Score!

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    pics or it didnt happen! CONGRATS!!!
    Looking for Ideal mold 419181 (44 Evans Long)
    "Joined Dates" are deceiving if you factor-in "lurk" dates.

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    Pics are coming. It is about 3 hours from where I am. Trying to figure out how to transport. Any idea as how much one would weigh?

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    Wow, I am speechless. At least you won't sweat too much while loading it up this time of year.. Todd/3leg

    Had to google this, 1 gallon of lead would weigh 94.715 pounds. So 45 gallons would weigh 4262.175 pounds. 6 barrels would weigh 25573.05 pounds assuming the barrels were full and solidly packed!
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    You're talking tons. Rent a U Haul and allow enough time to break it down into smaller increments.

    What kind of range salvage? Most of the salvage I get seems to be FMJ pistol bullets. I don't have a hardness tester, but the stuff sure seems harder than I would have expected.

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    My partner in crime said it looked like 50% jacket and the rest cast bullets from home casters. Should be good to go. Will never have to sort a wheel weight again. LOL. next time they clean out the back stops we get more for free. Just got to make the fellow at the range some bullets.

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    I'm guessing about 7.5 tons. If I remember correctly BNE said most range scrap he tested ran 1-3% Sb with the rest Pb. Nice score.

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    Sounds like a life time supply to me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gdkmedic View Post
    6 45 gallon barrels full of range scrap for free.
    Still puts you second to the guy with 14 tons. But I envy you both.
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    Thats a nice score. I'm thinking that 45 gallons is going to weigh 1500-1800#. Your going to need a heavy duty trailer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jsizemore View Post
    I'm guessing about 7.5 tons. If I remember correctly BNE said most range scrap he tested ran 1-3% Sb with the rest Pb. Nice score.
    If I said 3% that would be high....Typical range scrap is 1%Sb, 99%PB. I have see it as low as 0.5% and I think as high as 1.5% Sb.

    That's a great haul. The home cast stuff may be the biggest variable. Let us know how you move it home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BNE View Post
    If I said 3% that would be high....Typical range scrap is 1%Sb, 99%PB. I have see it as low as 0.5% and I think as high as 1.5% Sb.

    That's a great haul. The home cast stuff may be the biggest variable. Let us know how you move it home.
    I stand corrected. This link to the thread I almost remembered states it clearly in post #12:

    http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...e-i-am-curious

    Details seem to be a little fuzzy as time goes on. I guess if you added 1% tin/pewter you'd have something close to 50/50 +1% Sn, my house alloy. Now I don't have to send a sample of range scrape to BNE for testing.
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    Nice Score! Big scores = big job. Let us know how you load, unload and smelt it. Maybe something like what works and what doesn't. Me and another member, Biggin, bought 5600# of sorted wheel weights from yet another member recently. Its still sitting in my shop but we plan to start smelting soon, maybe next weekend, weather permitting.
    Last edited by lightman; 01-13-2018 at 10:10 AM.

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    Great score, should be in the neighborhood of 12 or 13 tons. 3leggedturtle was just about dead on.

    I have nearly 300 pounds and really don't want to fool with it, but I will when the weather warms a bit.

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    Moving all this lead is going to be a big job. Not sure if a picker would be able to pick up a drum or not. I suspect we will have to move the material a pail at a time to a truck and unload the same. A lot of work but worth it in my books.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gdkmedic View Post
    6 45 gallon barrels full of range scrap for free.
    Are those imperial gallons?
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    get a bunch of those home depot buckets! they are orange, unlike me, I am currently green... with envy!!!
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    The range scrap I mined from my home club's range, about 550 # net in ingots, xrf'd out to ~ 2% Sb, 98% Pb, no tin. Lots of action shooters using coated commercial hard cast explains that, I think.

    Some of our bays are reserved for club use only, others are rented to local law enforcement agencies so the scrap from each berm varies. I blended the batches from each recovery operation so that all of it is consistent.

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    I had about 1/2-3/5 55 gallon drum of foundrytype and it weighed 996 lbs so I would guess each barrel would be between 1700-2000 pounds

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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"
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