Down South
04-15-2008, 11:23 AM
I went over to our parish owned rifle range the other day to sight in a scope on my 45-70. While I was there I strolled over to the pistol range. They use a high red clay wall for a backstop. I noticed old bullets lying all over the ground around the bottom of the clay wall. It doesn’t look like anyone had ever mined this stuff.
So the next day I stop by Wally World and buy a minnow trap, then back to the range I go. (The Minnow trap is an idea that I got from one of our members). The minnow trap worked well in separating the dirt from the range scrap. I only got to mine for about 30 minutes before an LEO showed up and needed to use the range to practice for qualifying. But I got almost a ½ bucket full of range scrap in those 30 minutes.
The range scrap smelted better than I thought it would. I would get a pop from a fully jacketed bullet every now and them but keeping the lid on my dutch oven kept anything from flying out of the pot.
Now all I have to do is find time to get back to my new found lead supply and do some more mining.
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So the next day I stop by Wally World and buy a minnow trap, then back to the range I go. (The Minnow trap is an idea that I got from one of our members). The minnow trap worked well in separating the dirt from the range scrap. I only got to mine for about 30 minutes before an LEO showed up and needed to use the range to practice for qualifying. But I got almost a ½ bucket full of range scrap in those 30 minutes.
The range scrap smelted better than I thought it would. I would get a pop from a fully jacketed bullet every now and them but keeping the lid on my dutch oven kept anything from flying out of the pot.
Now all I have to do is find time to get back to my new found lead supply and do some more mining.
:castmine: