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lwknight
10-13-2010, 06:23 PM
:lovebooli
2 times I spent 20 minutes picking up bullets at the berm.
I got about 60 pounds total of whatever that yielded 45 pounds of lead and 12 pounds of jackets.
I took some scrap to the recycler and got $36.00 for the jackets.
I'm thinking thats pretty cool..

I did not volunteer that some of the jackets still had lead in them LOL .

Dog gone it! I misspelled Surprise in the title.
sagacious
10-13-2010, 06:29 PM
Good score, and surprise.
RP
10-13-2010, 07:27 PM
when I mined a berm to make shot to sell I made more money for less work off the jackets then the shot. Good to see you sold them alot say they toss them.
fredj338
10-15-2010, 04:05 PM
Soon, berm mining will be the only way to get your alloy cheap/free. I can do the same @ the outdoor range I shoot, 30min yields 100#, mostly lead stuff, I only keep the 230grFMJ for melting. No place around here will buy the scrap jackets.
lwknight
10-15-2010, 05:02 PM
I had a plan "B" in case they would not buy the jackets.

The place that I sold too will not sell lead to anyone because we might make fishing weights out of it.
I was going to tell then that if they did not buy the jackets that I would just toss them in the river and they were lead contaminated LOL!!
Muddy Creek Sam
10-15-2010, 05:11 PM
I got to mine my berm on of these days. Got lots of rounds into it.

Sam :D
lwknight
10-15-2010, 09:39 PM
Many moons ago in 1980 , the local sportsmans club had a range with sand berms.
Whenever I wanted ead I would just use my hands as a sieve and get 25 or 30 pounds in just a few minutes.
If I ever would have found a deep fry basket , I could have gotten tons of lead. But lead was cheap and everywhere so I never put any effort in the free lead.
WILCO
10-20-2010, 08:49 AM
[QUOTE=lwknight;1026605Dog gone it! I misspelled Surprise in the title.[/QUOTE]

No biggy. :popcorn:
bigboredad
10-23-2010, 11:57 PM
I wish I could find somewhere to sell my jackets I have 2 5 gallon buckets I need to melt down and that should give me almost a full 5 gallon bucket of jackets
imashooter2
10-24-2010, 12:03 AM
I wish I could find somewhere to sell my jackets I have 2 5 gallon buckets I need to melt down and that should give me almost a full 5 gallon bucket of jackets


No one around here will touch them. Into the trash they go.:(
lwknight
10-24-2010, 12:18 AM
I can get $2.90 per pound of jackets.
They have to at least look kinda like copper.