How is This For A Score?

[gdkmedic]

6 45 gallon barrels full of range scrap for free.

[richhodg66]

Score!

[maxreloader]

pics or it didnt happen! [smilie=s: CONGRATS!!!

[gdkmedic]

Pics are coming. It is about 3 hours from where I am. Trying to figure out how to transport. Any idea as how much one would weigh?

[3leggedturtle]

Wow, I am speechless. At least you won't sweat too much while loading it up this time of year.. Todd/3leg

Had to google this, 1 gallon of lead would weigh 94.715 pounds. So 45 gallons would weigh 4262.175 pounds. 6 barrels would weigh 25573.05 pounds assuming the barrels were full and solidly packed!

[richhodg66]

You're talking tons. Rent a U Haul and allow enough time to break it down into smaller increments.

What kind of range salvage? Most of the salvage I get seems to be FMJ pistol bullets. I don't have a hardness tester, but the stuff sure seems harder than I would have expected.

[gdkmedic]

My partner in crime said it looked like 50% jacket and the rest cast bullets from home casters. Should be good to go. Will never have to sort a wheel weight again. LOL. next time they clean out the back stops we get more for free. Just got to make the fellow at the range some bullets.

[jsizemore]

I'm guessing about 7.5 tons. If I remember correctly BNE said most range scrap he tested ran 1-3% Sb with the rest Pb. Nice score.

[Charliemac]

Sounds like a life time supply to me?

[William Yanda]

6 45 gallon barrels full of range scrap for free.

Still puts you second to the guy with 14 tons. But I envy you both.

[lightman]

Thats a nice score. I'm thinking that 45 gallons is going to weigh 1500-1800#. Your going to need a heavy duty trailer.

[BNE]

I'm guessing about 7.5 tons. If I remember correctly BNE said most range scrap he tested ran 1-3% Sb with the rest Pb. Nice score.

If I said 3% that would be high....Typical range scrap is 1%Sb, 99%PB. I have see it as low as 0.5% and I think as high as 1.5% Sb.

That's a great haul. The home cast stuff may be the biggest variable. Let us know how you move it home.

[jsizemore]

If I said 3% that would be high....Typical range scrap is 1%Sb, 99%PB. I have see it as low as 0.5% and I think as high as 1.5% Sb.

That's a great haul. The home cast stuff may be the biggest variable. Let us know how you move it home.

I stand corrected. This link to the thread I almost remembered states it clearly in post #12:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?346347-Only-because-i-am-curious

Details seem to be a little fuzzy as time goes on. I guess if you added 1% tin/pewter you'd have something close to 50/50 +1% Sn, my house alloy. Now I don't have to send a sample of range scrape to BNE for testing.

[lightman]

Nice Score! Big scores = big job. Let us know how you load, unload and smelt it. Maybe something like what works and what doesn't. Me and another member, Biggin, bought 5600# of sorted wheel weights from yet another member recently. Its still sitting in my shop but we plan to start smelting soon, maybe next weekend, weather permitting.

[LenH]

Great score, should be in the neighborhood of 12 or 13 tons. 3leggedturtle was just about dead on.

I have nearly 300 pounds and really don't want to fool with it, but I will when the weather warms a bit.

[gdkmedic]

Moving all this lead is going to be a big job. Not sure if a picker would be able to pick up a drum or not. I suspect we will have to move the material a pail at a time to a truck and unload the same. A lot of work but worth it in my books.

[farmerjim]

6 45 gallon barrels full of range scrap for free.

Are those imperial gallons?

[Oklahoma Rebel]

get a bunch of those home depot buckets! they are orange, unlike me, I am currently green... with envy!!!

[kevin c]

The range scrap I mined from my home club's range, about 550 # net in ingots, xrf'd out to ~ 2% Sb, 98% Pb, no tin. Lots of action shooters using coated commercial hard cast explains that, I think.

Some of our bays are reserved for club use only, others are rented to local law enforcement agencies so the scrap from each berm varies. I blended the batches from each recovery operation so that all of it is consistent.

[montanamike]

I had about 1/2-3/5 55 gallon drum of foundrytype and it weighed 996 lbs so I would guess each barrel would be between 1700-2000 pounds

[JimB..]

Whenever I see these scores, or things like a sailboat keel, I can’t decide if it’s a score or a curse. Just processing a couple barrels of range brass quickly went from “yeah score” to “maybe I just toss these last few buckets.”

[lightman]

Whenever I see these scores, or things like a sailboat keel, I can’t decide if it’s a score or a curse. Just processing a couple barrels of range brass quickly went from “yeah score” to “maybe I just toss these last few buckets.”

Ain't that the truth! A few times I've posted something like "big score=big job". It didn't bother me when I was younger but a long day or two of smelting wears me out now! My process and set-up have evolved to the point that its about as user friendly as possible. A minimum of bending and stooping and economy of motion. Lots of ingot molds, good lay down area, ect. But its still work! But I ain't tossing any out!

[CScott]

The indoor range scrap I've been getting weighs about 110 Lbs per 5 gallon pail. So 45 gallons would be about 5,000 lbs.
You may get it for free but you won't get it home for free! Let us know how it goes.

[turtlezx]

cscott in case you missed it there are 6 of them at 45gals

[kmrra]

im sure somewhere there is a law against making a score like that ..

[Jal5]

Wonder how he is moving all that weight? I would be selling some to recoup the propane or other expense of transporting it all

[lightman]

Hoping gdkmedic will come back! Looking forward to hearing more about this. Such as what it weighed, how he loaded and hauled it and how he melted it. I have my own methods but really like to hear about others methods.

[bdicki]

Dang, I thought I did good.
https://i.imgur.com/1Vz3G9x.jpg

[lightman]

Thats a nice haul! Every good score does not have to be measured in tons! Looks like a lot of soft lead.