I bought 192 lbs for $50. I had to sort the Zn and Fe out of them. I think I ended up with around 140lbs of wheel weight lead.
I bought 192 lbs for $50. I had to sort the Zn and Fe out of them. I think I ended up with around 140lbs of wheel weight lead.
I go to the scrap yard and get to sit on a bucket and hand pick. They sale to me for $.70 pound.
l just finished up casting boolits from a 98 pound bucket of range scrap l got a few yrs ago.. l now have 81 pounds of boolits. Not too bad from a bucket l paid $10 for.. They may be on the soft side by some standards. l can only answer by saying l am casting ''Boolits from Boolits''.. l only have another dozen buckets of scrap left. @72 l hope l don't run out of lead/boolits before l run out of ''time''
Here in Oz the prices vary just like they do for you guys.
I spoke to one tyre joint and he said that the recycle yard pays him $80 for a 44 gallon drum full. He had a half drum sitting there and told me to take as much as I wanted for $30. After sorting and smelting I wound up with over 200 lbs of COWW.
I usually go in with my own 2.5 gallon buckets, and most places I can get scrap for about $4 per gallon, so anyone asking for more than that and I pass.
I had one guy tell me he couldn't sell it to me because it was worth too much money We did get a shower of rain that morning, so he hadn't been down here very long
Hard work made me what I am today,
Broken and broke
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Bob
I keep my local Cennex service station heat working for free ,they in turn give me all there ww for free. We both come out ahead.
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 |