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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

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    at age 75 with inoperable cataracs, I think what I have will do me.

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    I did at one time until my wife... Well, let's just say 'no' and keep looking!
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    I'm down to a couple of hundred pounds of wheel weights and maybe 120 pounds of soft. That's certainly not enough (I'm only 50), but my buddy at the tire store always has a five gallon bucket waiting when I stop by. So far, the steel content has been pretty low and he says that if it starts kicking up, he'll have the boys start trying to keep them separate.

    It wouldn't kill me to buy lead, but I sure wouldn't like it!

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    I've been a life long bullet caster and shoot a LOT of cast every year. Despite my yearly needs (400-600 lbs) I am sitting on about 4000 lbs. I still collect what I can.

    Is it a life time supply?

    Hell, ask my Doctor. I don't know.
    Chill Wills

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    Well I know that I have alot but now that its even harder to come by I ask everone I know to keep an ear out and I will tell you that I would not turn any down if it came my way.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chill Wills View Post
    I've been a life long bullet caster and shoot a LOT of cast every year. Despite my yearly needs (400-600 lbs) I am sitting on about 4000 lbs. I still collect what I can.

    Is it a life time supply?

    Hell, ask my Doctor. I don't know.
    Well, considering that you live in Leadville, CO, if any of us should have a lifelong supply, you should...

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    Lets see--My lead supply by Sam C.
    Well I have been melting my 45 ACP bullets in order to make some 44 Mag bullets.
    So I guess you could say my lead supply is not so good.
    Box that holds my tin = empty
    Here in Maine you can't get a WW --use to but not anymore.
    I still let people shoot my pistols, when it's gone it's gone.
    So far the good Lord has kept it going, but only he knows how.
    My friend had 400 pounds of nice clean WW from stock cars ( balancing weights )
    He would sell me some for 50 cents a pound, I could get a couple dollars worth when I needed some. Well he is in worse shape then me and sold it all.
    I never even asked him to who he sold it to.
    My pure is about 35 pounds but it's a little soft EH.
    Now, that being said I would be happy to answer any other questions ( smile on face )
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    Lifetime supply? I work in a tire shop. I was there a long time ago.

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    There have been two or three fellows who have intimated that they have tonnage, not poundage. Methinks our friend Dean may be a member of that company.

    "I was there a long time ago"

    Bravo, sir, bravo.
    More "This is what happened when I,,,,," and less "What would happen if I,,,,"

    Last of the original Group Buy Honcho's.

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    I will feel a lot better once I fill this up.


    I have around 300#s of isotope cores to melt into ingots and add to it. But that still leaves a lot of empty space.


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    Yep. Sitting on about 1500 pounds of monotype. Need more WW.

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    No. I had to sell off about 1k# WW when I moved, which leaves me with only 1K#WW and 500# pb...

    Fortunately (?) I still don't have my casting/smelting shed finished yet, so anything I collect just gets added to the "smelt me" pile.
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    I am new to casting but I have ten unsorted 5 gal. buckets of used wheel weights, about 100
    pounds lead stick on weights, and about 1000 pounds of ingots. I need more pure lead and
    tin.

    Johnny

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    There is not such thing as to much of a supply of lead!
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    Was on my way...

    But continuing unemployment and post-divorce court issues, even after nearly four years, has necessitated a sell off of my strategic supply. I would rather sell lead than guns...hopefully the job situation changes. I had somewhat in excess of five TON at one time not too long. More to be listed on the S&S section tomorrow, even some lino in 20 pound pigs, if any of you guys around Colorado Springs are interested. What for the thread. Still need to take a picture.

    Aaron

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    Probably not enough for a lifetime. I keep acquiring...
    Scored a 5 gal bucket of wheel weights last week. The first WW
    I've got in a long time.
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    If I get the 2400 lb lead boat keel from my neighbor I will. At the moment it's still attached to the boat he's salvaging out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rmark View Post
    If I get the 2400 lb lead boat keel from my neighbor I will. At the moment it's still attached to the boat he's salvaging out.
    That's about 75K rounds of 230 gr .45... I *think* that would last me for the rest of my life... Maybe...

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    I figure hoarding is a waste of time that is the cause of the "So called" shortages.
    I let my friends do it then when they kick off I will get it from their widows for, "Just get the damn stuff out of here".

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    Do You Have a Lifetime Supply?

    Do I have enough. How does one judge how much is enough. For my needs, I think so. I go to my club range 4-5 times a year for a couple hours each trip. Maybe shoot 12-15 rds.each time from either modern rifles or B/P rifles. Hunt deer in two separate State Seasons. Fire 2-3-rds of 270 at best. Once or twice from either my 45-54 Hawken during the B/P Season. That's about it for the year. The amounts of lead and alloy I have on hand are small compared to some. And than again, maybe just a tad more than others. But hey, I'm happy. (Below) is what I have on hand.

    6-700 lbs. of Linotype.
    25-30 lbs. of clean Range Lead
    75-80 lbs of soft lead that came from smelting lead pipe & sheets.
    20-25 lbs W/W lead.
    200 lbs #6 Mag Lead Shot
    150 lbs #7-1/2 Chilled Lead Shot

    Than there is Masscaster. Being a past customer of Jeff's I can recommend his Shop for anyone's Boolit or ball casting needs.

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check