range lead

[white eagle]

I have a bucket of range lead from my own range [smilie=s:
you know the used boolits in the berm
my boy weighed it and it weighed a whopping 50# :cbpour:
**** I didn't realize I shot that much but I guess my wife knew I did [smilie=l:
well at least that what she said [smilie=p:

[2wheelDuke]

Congrats. Let us know what it comes out to in clean ingots. Even when I used some old window screen and the hose to get most of the sand off used boolits, I still had what felt like pounds of dirt & sand come out in the dross.

[docone31]

PAM makes a good flux for that.
I get good recovery on the really crappy loads.
Doesn't smoke either.

[grullaguy]

At the range where I shoot, I just can't help picking up all the spent bullets laying on the surface. I have lots of lead and I am constantly smelting the range scrap I bring home.

It is like a sickness. I see it laying on the ground and feel that it is going to waste laying there.

[Jal5]

I borrowed this motto from someone else:

When shooting at the range, I always try to bring home more lead than I shoot!"

Works for me,

Joe

[Harter66]

Heck that's a paltry 30 boxes of 45 Colts , a mear 50-52 boxes of 9 or 38/357. That's not even a box a week ............annualy jeeze.

Weigh it out for us in ingots?

I like to bring home more than I left too gives me that warm fuzzy saving the world feeling.

[white eagle]

Ok its 50#

[bigboredad]

hey white eagle that's about all I shoot anymore I still have couple of ww connections. I usually haven't had a problem the range where I pick up my bullets is about 70/30 jacketed to commercial lead so they are usually quite hard . But and rhere is always the but I have some bullets that are skidding so I believe a quick bath in some cold water is due for the hot ones. And there seems to be more than enough tin in the ones I have rescued

[jmsj]

In the last couple of years I have been getting about 200-300 lbs. of range scrap (smelted weight) a year.
It has been enough to keep my wife's guns, my target rounds fed and invite some young people over to shoot without digging in to my wheel weight and pure lead stash.
jmsj.