Mined a little today

[melloairman]

Rain the other day so instead of shooting today I reclaimed some lead at the range . Around 50-60 pounds in each bucket . All my body wanted to do .Marvin
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[a.squibload]

Nice haul!

[melloairman]

Small but it all adds up .Marvin

[Freightman]

Your body must take more than mine, takes me two or more trips to get that much. Nice haul and scrap makes fine boolits.

[melloairman]

Had freezing fog at the range . And I did not fill like shooting indoors . So this time I headed to the outdoors rim fire range . In about a hour I had 4 more buckets as full as I care to lift . Marvin
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[tomme boy]

Our range is so full of broken clay pigeons and rocks you have to hand sort everything. I wish it was not like this. The range has been here for over 50 years and from what I hear, I am the only one mining it. Some guys walk up and down picking up the shotgun slugs, but that is it. It takes about 2.5 hours to get 3/4 of a bucket. I have a two wheel cart to haul my lead back to the truck. Saves the back a little.

[Finnmike]

Nice haul, Marvin. Bet you can spill that off onto a tarp at the collection site and blow that chaff away with a leaf blower!


Had freezing fog at the range . And I did not fill like shooting indoors . So this time I headed to the outdoors rim fire range . In about a hour I had 4 more buckets as full as I care to lift . Marvin
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn55/melloroadman/IMG_6975.jpg

[melloairman]

Thanks for the idea . It is not as bad as it looks . Pieces of target sticks for the most part .I just raked the top of the bank off . The rim fire range is at least 10 ten years old and never mined . I am about the only one allowed to mine there now . And the first haul was off the pistol range . That was the same about a hour of work . Because of the rain and flooding we had last winter they did not want me to touch the levee .So it has been about a year and a half since I pulled any lead from it . Pretty easy pickens right now . Pistol range had shooters on it today so I went to the rim fire range instead . Marvin

[Sonnypie]

That's not chaff,
That there is pre-fluxed. :killingpc

[Jal5]

Nice going Marvin! I wish i could get that much RS with that much work.

[Jailer]

Our range is so full of broken clay pigeons and rocks you have to hand sort everything. I wish it was not like this. The range has been here for over 50 years and from what I hear, I am the only one mining it. Some guys walk up and down picking up the shotgun slugs, but that is it. It takes about 2.5 hours to get 3/4 of a bucket. I have a two wheel cart to haul my lead back to the truck. Saves the back a little.

Wow I feel lucky. My 2.5 hours of work got me this. It's nothing but commercial jacketed bullets, mostly 180gr .40 S&W with a few OO buckshot and 223 mixed in. I use a 2 wheel cart to haul to the truck as well.

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[koehlerrk]

I do a little mining at the club, but the heavy clay soil makes it slow going... mostly hand-sorting. Oh well, the price is right, y'know?

[melloairman]

Your buckets are full though . I can not lift that much any more . I know what you are saying . That 22 lead is looking better to me at this point . There can be a lot of graphite or molly to deal with some times . But those jackets are a pain . Marvin

[Jailer]

The jackets are a pain but they bring a nice price at the recyclers. Makes all the work and effort worth it.