For this? Paid $100 for it all and it cost me about $25 in gas. The smaller buckets are 5 gallon buckets. Should smelt down to over 500 lbs for $125 total invested.
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For this? Paid $100 for it all and it cost me about $25 in gas. The smaller buckets are 5 gallon buckets. Should smelt down to over 500 lbs for $125 total invested.
I will drive round trip to double your money if you are interested and thats quite a haul for me! Thats a good score. I don't know of you MI folks have been getting the rain like I have, but I have about a half ton of recycled magnum shot waiting to get alloyed with some fresh plumbers lead at about then same weight. Every time I think about smelting the clouds come out.
great score.
Yesssssssssssssssss.
We got a lot of rain the last few weeks, but it finally let up for a few days. Just long enough to get the lawn mowed and get the farmers in the fields. But it looks like this weekend starts round two.Originally Posted by man.electric
The best part about this score it how it came to be. I sold off my stash 1650 rounds of factory 45 ammo and used the money for this, 4k of once fired brass and 4k of primers. Already had 4 lbs of titegroup and 8lbs of 231 so that should hold me over for a while.
I travel all the way from Atlanta to Nashville to get buckets of WWs. I happen to have a friend that her best friend owns the dealership there. Now of course I pay nothing for them, but I still have wheel time and gas invested.
500 #'s of processed ww lead is worth about $600 + from what I have seen lately. I'd say you did good!
And also look at it this way, you can cast 17,500, 200 grain bullets. What a deal!
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$125 for at least 500 lbs? Would I drive 100 miles? I dunno....let me check ebayHoly Moses
HECK YEAH Just kidding...Nice Haul
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Money wise, it makes sense.
Time wise, I don't have the time, but I sure wish I did.
I wouldnt in my own truck....but I drive lots of miles weekly in a company truck
Doug
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Jailer, I don't mean to drop anymore rain on your ww parade but could it be that some of the ww in the far right bucket be made of zinc.
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I think it would call for a road trip.
Not just for the lead but do other things also.
Good Buy
I'm sure there are some, they haven't been sorted yet. There doesn't seem to be too many Zinc around these parts yet at least from what I've scrounged. Some steel, a few Zinc but mostly lead.
Absolutely
I drive 80 miles round trip to the range...
5 buckets at 100 pounds each,
yea, that'll work for me...
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hell yes !!!For this? Paid $100 for it all and it cost me about $25 in gas. The smaller buckets are 5 gallon buckets. Should smelt down to over 500 lbs for $125 total invested.
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hit em'often
Just sorted the bucket you were referring to. The pic of all the sorted stuff is below.
From left to right: Zinc, steel, trash, stick ons. Pretty typical results from this source.
Ya done good.
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Just got done sorting a second bucket. A little more steel, much less trash, a few more stick ons and 1 Zinc.
That pic looks almost exactly like what I found in two (of three pails) of w/w I just recently bought for $60 . . . after sorting them I netted 349lbs of clip-on w/w and 16lbs of stick-ons. One of the pails was almost totally free of junk, the other two contained about the same amount of "junk" as your pics.
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