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View Poll Results: Do you have a lifetime supply of lead?

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  • No, What I Have Won't Last

    790 51.77%
  • Yes, I Have Enough to Make It to the Other Side

    348 22.80%
  • I Just Don't Know

    228 14.94%
  • I Hoard for the Sake of Hoarding Itself

    160 10.48%
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Thread: Do You Have a Lifetime Supply?

  1. #21
    Boolit Master
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    I have about 3000 lbs on hand. At my rate of shooting lately I think I probably do, but that could pick up.

    I always am looking to hoard more.

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    I have about a ton in various forms. Seems like it will last forever while I'm working full time. I think I'll go through it much faster once I'm retired and have a lot more time to put into casting and shooting.

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    Boolit Master in Heaven's Range onesonek's Avatar
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    I guess it depends on how much shooting for fun and hunting, I end up doing.
    With a 400 gr. avg. for current use's, I have about 10,000 rnds worth. So, I just don't know right now. But I won't turrn down more, even if I don't use it, the kids will, or it will be bartering stock.
    Dave

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    Use to have well over a ton in various alloys. Over the last while I either sold off or traded a big chunk for other things that were needed at the time, so I'm definitely down a bit. BUT, that's being fixed a 5-gallon bucket at a time.
    Guns have only two real enemies; Rust and Politicians...

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    Lead vs life expendency is dependent on my wife and if I bring home another gun

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    I buy it if it's cheap, find it where/when I can. I don't actively scrounge shops anymore, just not worth the time & gas, but if in a place, I always ask. I have enough if I die within say 20yrs, hopefully not, but the amount I shoot also matters. At the current rate of 800rs/m, I got enough for about 5-6yrs.

  7. #27
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    I doubt I have a lifetime suppy but Ive got about 1000lbs of WW and 200lbs of soft lead and 200lbs of 40/60 solder. Still trying to get more WW but they are hard to come by lately unfortunately.

  8. #28
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    Quote Originally Posted by geargnasher View Post
    I catch and recycle most everything I shoot at home, so I'm set for virtually forever.

    Gear
    This is exactly what I "try" to do. I probably loose a few but not many. As far as a "lifetime" supply, well I'm 65 so quite possibly what I currently have loaded in my guns could be enough ..heck, I don't even make dinner reservations anymore..

  9. #29
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    i have enough for @5,000 rds a year for the next 20 years.
    unfortunatly i/we shoot more than that.
    even scrounging/mining probably won't cut it.
    i'm working on a recycling program.
    i'm just not too excited about hauling a bucket of dirt to the range in the mustang.

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    My kids are just coming into real shooting age. I figured out if we all 4 shoot 2 cowboy matches a month, with an average of 200 grains/bullet, and we shoot for 20 more years, then I will need 5,485 lbs. I will be 76 then so who knows if I will still be shooting, but I hope so. I am almost there but I buy any good deal that comes along. If I/we start getting into long range shooting the stash will get depleted much faster.

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    I voted for the first one. I really don't know if I have enough. I have about a 55 gallon drum 2/3rds full right now of seperated unsmelted wws plus about 2 buckets of unsorted wws and about 50lbs of stick-ons and dead soft pb. I only shoot about 1000 148gr, 300 200gr and 300 260gr boolits a year. But I always keep looking for more.
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    I'cve only got about 300lbs right now, but am starting to make more frequent trips to the recycler to pick up wheel weights. Recently discovered their stash of bar solder as well.

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    I see no way I can use up all the lead I have stashed. I could use some more linotype though.

  14. #34
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    Unfortunately not, I could see myself going through my supply in a year.

    I'd need a ton of ww's to feel good about my supply.

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    Linotype

    Linotype

    Have 4 more boxes of wheelweight ingots



    Waiting smelting

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    i think i,m good i have around 6 tons of ww range lead and pure and i still have a goal of getting aleast 100 pounds more per week i know i,m sick lol

  17. #37
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    I honestly don't know at this point. I doubt it. I guess I have around 800 lbs+ of assorted WW and ingots on hand. I'm not going throught it very fast, however. Last year I scrounged range bullets and came up with about 75 lbs of Muffin ingots. I have gone through about half of those so far this year and I haven't touched the WW's or other ingots. I feel like I am shooting a good bit, but I am relatively new to casting, so it's hard to tell. If I have a chance to pick up more at a resonable price (or free...) I am sure I will add to the stash.

  18. #38
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    Quote Originally Posted by geargnasher View Post
    I catch and recycle most everything I shoot at home, so I'm set for virtually forever.

    Gear
    Gear,

    What do you shoot it into?

    MJ

  19. #39
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    I like to say that I have a 1500 lb safety margin.

    Since this site has made me paranoid about getting lead now and in the future, I have tried to replace what I shoot.

    Scrounging WW's, and Range mining has kept my shooting lead constant.

    My problem is that dangswagget Lipsey's 45 colt and those dangswagget 285 grain Mihec boolits...............................dangswagget.

    I guess I could cast more 115 grain pills for my 308.

    762

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    Only have about 20 lbs. of lead to cast with. Lead is gettin' hard to come by here in Eastern Tennessee. All tire shops tell me they've switched to steel ww, so no more lead. BC
    Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me."

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