I was at the local scrap yard and saw range lead in 5 gallon buckets.
It was mostly larger lead bullets with very few jacketed.
They wanted $.30 a lb.
This seems to me to be a good price. Is it?....dale
I was at the local scrap yard and saw range lead in 5 gallon buckets.
It was mostly larger lead bullets with very few jacketed.
They wanted $.30 a lb.
This seems to me to be a good price. Is it?....dale
I would say thats a good price. I recently bought a bunch of sorted wheel weights for 40cents a pound and I had the additional waste involving the clips.
Better hop on it like a starved duck on a june bug. Having very little jacketed bullet, your yield will be high. watch for the dirt/sand or other debris. If reasonably clean, that is a steal. Get all you can as the lead alloy should be about right for general apps. Have fun smelting, casting, and most importantly, have a blast shooting them. Be SAFE and have FUN. Iron
Yeah I get mine for free but 30c/# is a decent price. There will still be scrap/waste, from the jackets, maybe 15%, but still a good price in todays dwindling supply of cheap/free alloy.
EVERY GOOD SHOOTER NEEDS TO BE A HANDLOADER.
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Good price! Be aware of unfired .22 ammo in the scrap. I don't know how, but they get in there somehow. Load up on it!
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
Don't forget you can sell the jackets back to them if you get them clean enough.
I'd be all over that like stink on brown runny cow feces
I'd be all over that! Buy as much as you can afford!
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