how much is too much of lead stash?

[Gliden07]

If anyone with too many WW or Lead in general feels compelled to get rid of some of it, I would be more than willing to help dispose of them and help cure there addiction!! LOL!!

[gareth96]

Invest in lead... it's the new gold...

[RayinNH]

I don't know how much I have in terms of weight. I do keep a plastic container in my truck. If I'm the last one at the range I usually go downrange and pick up what I find sitting on top of the soil. I can usually find more than I deposit in the berm. That's a good shooting day...Ray

[Kraschenbirn]

Ain't no such thing as "Too Much". Currently, in addition to my stock of finished boolits, I've got around 500# processed into ingots of my three 'basic' alloys...and roughly half that amount in the form of range scrap, COWWs, and roof flashing/lead pipe...but I still hit my regular sources every month or so.

Bill

[GaryN]

I figure that lead is poor man's silver. So I use it like a savings account. You can always use it. If you get hard up you can sell it.

[HATCH]

you have too much lead when the movers come to move you to your new place and they refuse to carry the "tubs" after the 3rd one (each tub is over 800lbs)

[Catshooter]

Like HATCH said, you can never have too much until it's time to move.


Cat

[khmer6]

I'm smelting wheel weights as we speak. 50 pounds of coww seemed so little after it all melted down

[RobS]

The way I see it..........there is never too much of a stash.

[awaveritt]

I thought I had enough lead when I just shot 38/9mm. Then I got a 45 Colt lever action and a 1911 45ACP. Amazing how much that ups the ante - now I'm starting to get nervous - may have to actually start buying the stuff

[dakotashooter2]

I've thought about storing some of it in the bottom of my gun safe... It's getting that valuable and........... a ton in the safe would help keep anyone from moving or tipping it.................

[imashooter2]

I've thought about storing some of it in the bottom of my gun safe... It's getting that valuable and........... a ton in the safe would help keep anyone from moving or tipping it.................

A 2 ton safe is only difficult to move if you care about the house around it...

[Tx reloader72]

Last year a friend of mine and I gathered 5800# from a private range in two days. We still activly search for new sources. As most of the fine folks here will agree no such thing as enough.

[Bullet Caster]

You can never have too much. I just used up my last bit o' lead and have a few car batteries line up to flush and claim the lead. BC

[mikeym1a]

I recently decided to smelt my huge stash of wheel weights and misc lead alloy into ingots. Of course lead sure compresses and is dense. I curently have 586 pds of 2-2.5 pd ingots yes I weighed and marked each one with a metal stamp. in addition I have 310 pds of pure soft lead (I believe it all to be soft but really high tin % )

according to the handy dandy calculator, you should be able to make 21,000, +/-, 200gr boolits out of the WW. And a little more than 1/2 that out of the lead. How often do you shoot?

[Mk42gunner]

The way I figure it, as long as you own your house and the volume of the lead doesn't exceed the volume of the house, you don't have enough.

Some people might get upset at a house sized stockpile of lead ingots, but you can tell them it is going to be used for an EMP shield one day.

Robert

[Hickory]

I've been on vacation, so I have not been current here.
But back to the OP, I like to have on hand 1500-2000+lb of lead.
Anything less than 1000lbs I feel as if I'm nearly out.

[btroj]

Enough is when you die and have lead left. Anything less is not enough.

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

I ask a similar question a while back, How to tell when you have enough.
The answers where the same as here.
I've built up a l little over 3000 pounds. I'm still pick up the range berries while shooting,
and any other stuff I find. I'm out of "buying" lead when ever I have a few extra bucks, but I still
keep an eye out for it

[shootinfox2]

P+M=E

Plenty plus More equals Enough.

Fox