The new “wheel weight”

[10 ga]

Currently gathering information, plans and even some parts for a "rail gun", Toyota pu portable, has a tremendous range if I ever get it working.

[osteodoc08]

I foresee the “sintered frangible” bullets taking over the usual lead and copper bullets. There will always be lead for folks that want to hunt it down. Just have to be creative.

[PNW_Steve]

Craigslist, facebook marketplace, garage sales. A typical male diver rocking a wetsuit is wearing 20+ lbs of lead. Usually when you find someone selling dive weights, they're in lots of 20-30lbs at a time, and they're going for $5-$10 for all. I've picked them up for under $0.30 a pound several times. The only downside is I've found everything from pure lead all the way through linotype, so you'll need to test the hardness.

Gotta laugh... I have about 60lbs of dive weights that I cast from WW and they are going to stay dive weights.

[Ozark mike]

No dive weights around here only diving ya will find is sky diving oh well i know where i can pull pure lead out of the ground its pretty common up in the cabinets just seems like a lot of work

[Geezer in NH]

Did you somehow get the impression from the original post that anyone was panicking?

I’ll likely be long dead as well. Just curious what people thought the future might hold.

What other impression could one get eh?

[405grain]

I've scrounged up a lifetimes supply of lead. Since I also saved up bar tin, 50/50 bar solder, & lead free solder, and have a box full of hard lead BB size shot for arsenic, I just buy superhard from rotometals and make my own tire weight ingots. Mining a berm for lead isn't really an option for me because the closest range is 40 miles away. Plus recovering boolits from a berm is really labor intensive, and it's 108 degrees outside right now, so that just isn't gonna happen.
There is something that I've wondered about, but never checked out; outside of tire shops the next thing that would be handling the most used tire weights would be street sweepers. There has to be tons of old tire weights that have come off and ended up on the curb of streets and roads over the years. Street sweepers don't care what they sweep up, they just collect all the debris left on the side of the road. I wonder where they dump all that stuff? Maybe it goes into a landfill and is lost forever along with all the other crap that's just waiting for a trailer park to get built on top of it. Or maybe there's a waste pile at some county yard that is the holy grail of berm mines? Who knows. I've got all the COWW alloy that I need, so I don't need to mine for it, but somebody somewhere has to know a guy that drives a street sweeper. The answers are out there!

[kevin c]

Radioisotope containers will probably still be around, though there’s always a chance that new technologies will do away the medical use of ionizing radiation, or that something like super dense plastics will be used instead of lead.

Not always easy to find a regular source, though.

[ReloadingNoob]

Who do you guys contact to buy discarded isotope containers?

[fcvan]

Who do you guys contact to buy discarded isotope containers?

Go to Swapping and Selling, I have seen it there plenty of times.