I once had 3000 lbs of clean lead., 100,000 primers, and 100,000 .22's. thought I was good forever. 5 years later, I'd shot it all.
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I once had 3000 lbs of clean lead., 100,000 primers, and 100,000 .22's. thought I was good forever. 5 years later, I'd shot it all.
At my present rate of shooting, I'd say most everyone would have a lifetime supply. I gotta get to the range.
I will say this: There is mucho (that is a little southwest Spanish lingo) lead in the berms at the gun club. They recover the shot from the skeet and trap range but the pistol and rifle ranges are not harvested, except by a few of us with shovels and seives and buckets. I suspect the same opportunity is available for many of you. That makes the supply very, very large!
Enough and lead are two words that can't be used in the same sentence. There is no such thing as enough.
I'll probably not outlive my stash, but there are generations to follow. They'll have a harder time collecting than I did.
Long live the silver stream.
This ^^^
While I still hopefully have a long life ahead of me, at the end of my lifetime my children will carry on the tradition and hopefully my grand-children. Just like the days of linotype being "cheap bullet metal" have long since passed, the days of wheel-weights and other cheap sources will go also pass. My goal is to stock as much as I can find at a reasonable cost so that in the future I will have enough for my lifetime and anything leftover will be for my kids and grand-kids.
I just started a year ago and I'm over 1000 lbs, mostly free or case of beer, box of .22 ammo sort of thing. During the gun craze it was really easy to get a few buckets of wheel weights for a single box of .22 ammo. The .22 ammo I stacked deep years ago when it was still $9.97 per 550 rd bulk-pack at Walmart... :)
My bullet trap is helping to recycle what I shoot on the range I made behind the house. But, No I don't have near enough lead.
My late uncle Houston left me about 200 ingots. I remember him remodeling older homes in Neosho in the 70's. When he found lead in the old pipes or where-ever, he would get all sorts of happy. :smile:
We used to melt them down in an old Lyman ingot mold on the weekends.
Only have about 80lbs :(
I have enough for a year or so.
I have a lifetime supply of lead like I have a lifetime supply of money
Never enough, if only because when I cast for some of my antique guns, I tend to give batches of boolits away to fellow old rifle shooters... But living in Olde England, we have a pretty much unlimited supply of scrap-lead sat there in every scrap-yard. And because almost everyone where I live is really hurting in this awful recession, most of these scrapyards will gladly sell you it right back for cash, for just a few pennies' over what they paid.
Modern English Pewter (normally 91% tin, 7.5% antimony and 1.5% copper ) is raining down from the sky at stupid low prices that MUST be taken advantage of while the goin's good - it won't always be...
COWWs are practically all zinc or other new alloys over here now. Anyone who has a stash of the old ones, KNOWS what they have and charge crazy prices a sane boolit caster can't meet.
Yes only problem is its pure lead from old 1 inch waterlines
Not yet but I'm working as fast as I can. My pure lead supply is now up to 275 pounds and growing.
450# of castable ingots. I'm 60 so not enough for the rest of my life (I hope!). In Kalifornia it's hard to find wheel weights nowadays, so I usually look for it on driving vacations in other states. I'm shooting mostly 9mm lately, and at 122 gr each, that's only 57 boolits/pound, or 25,650 boolits. Sounds like a lot, but I'd like to shoot at least a couple hundred a month, and when I get a mould my 45 likes it will eat even more of it. I don't think it will last more than 5-7 years.
1100 #'s so NO.... :lovebooli
Doc
I have enough for Me, My Daughter, and My Grand Daughter & Grand Son.
Got it covered
Still getting more every few months
I thought I was doing pretty well. But after reading how this thread I have learned 2 things: 1) I don't shoot much 2) my 400ish lbs is a joke. I'm now feeling woefully inadequate.:groner:
Howdy all, *** here, started collecting PB last week, now have 600Lb's cow, cause the local scrap guy owed me a favour or two.. probably will still hoard what I come across though..
Getting closer. If I stopped shooting it would have been full a long time ago.
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I think I got enough for quite a few years however one never knows so I keep collecting and sorting. One things for sure it doesn't go bad!
Jeepyj