Sorry for the loss of your friend! Most of us probably have hopes that our stash will go to another caster and not the scrap yard.
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Sorry for the loss of your friend! Most of us probably have hopes that our stash will go to another caster and not the scrap yard.
That’s what he and his wife wanted too. His shooting, trusted friends, four of us, were all at his celebration of life. I spoke and told the story of naming a goat after him cause the goats coloring looked like his beard colors. If reloading stuff is to be sold, I must offer it to his shooting friends first before strangers.
Yes a life time supply. I have been carting around ingots of 60's and 70's vintage wheel weights and lots of sheet lead / scrap lead blocks and leading from stained glass windows.
And I don't cast as much as I used to.
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I have more lead than primers so I stopped scrounging a while back. Primers and powder are showing up again though so I plan to start looking. I could see buying half a ton if it was clean and priced right.
I'll never forget the owner of scrap yard I associated with said to me one day, whatever all these people around here have stored away in their garages and storage it will all end up here one day.
digging into my stash of buckets of stuff I think I might need to come cross some more Lino or foundry type if I will ever use up everything ive managed to scrounge though the years.
If you are having trouble finding lead this might be an option; https://www.rotometals.com/surplus-l...x-8-99-9-pure/ I ordered 5 of them. I will melt and flux it well, then add 5% tin from my big stash of pewter. 20/1 is a luxury alloy. Great for hunting boolits and hollow points.
I am curious to see what you think of that surplus lead. $2.13 lb. seem a bit steep but maybe I am behind the times on prices.
If you buy a pallet of 1,000lbs. it is only $1.63lb. Good deal if you can get a group of castors together.
https://www.rotometals.com/pallet-su...-boat-ballast/
Before I wasn’t sure, but after having to move my stash today, I think I might. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop collecting it. It’s part of the addiction.
The other day I shifted and moved some of the 5 gallon buckets of ingots while looking for something behind them.
This late in the game---- I'd say, 'Yeah, there will be plenty of Lead left in the shop when I'm gone'.
It took a good while to melt down those big bricks. I did three of them them, fluxed well and added enough tin to make 20/1. Got about 75 ingots of it now.
Idk about “lifetime” supply. But I just finished moving my stash to my new house. 835 ingots. 3lb 10oz average weight
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Is that the sound of a concrete garage floor cracking that I hear?
JK; you spread it out pretty good. Now ya gotta build some work benches and shelving over top.
Finding his house won't be hard, It will be the one standing on it's side.:bigsmyl2: THAT is a lot of ORGANIZED lead!!!!!!!!!
I think I do. I have about 2,000 lbs of clip on wheel weights and about 1,000 lbs of pure lead in various forms. Approximately 30 lbs of pure Tin from rotometal and then 25 or 30 lbs of some kind of old solder that I think came from a radiator shop. Firing this into a bullet recovery box should allow any amount of shooting I want for life even accounting for the loss of bullets I may fire into metal targets or out in a field, hunting, etc.
But I'm open to buying more at any time given the opportunity.
I know I posted in this thread before, but I will hit up another.
The answer to the question is simple. It depends on how much I shoot.
If I can afford it I will always get more. I suggest you do the same.
I voted yes I have enough.
Fortunately I am able to shoot in my backyard and have bullet trap boxes full of sand at various distances so I am able to reclaim the lead, re-melt and cast again.
My fairly large stash of lead hardly gets used because I keep recycling the lead I shoot.
I probably posted in this already but I got a few lifetimes worth but am still hoarding . Get all you can get is my motto . I am fixing to find out exactly how much I actually have , I bought another farm and am planning on consolidating three loading locations into one . I still have a 21 foot sail boat to break down . I have two sons that shoot so they will be set when I am gone . I'm gonna start playing with casting and shooting zinc bullets some , should be able to at least shoot cans with them . Not throwing anything out that might make a useable bullet.
Do I have a lifetime supply? I hope not!