What is lead wire going for these days? Anybody here buy it? What sizes are you using?
What is lead wire going for these days? Anybody here buy it? What sizes are you using?
I use some for swaging and im paying about $1.00 per+ pound when I can find it on partial spools or old stock and always looking for more. Its also great to have because its pure lead and I use it for my BP stuff when im out of pure ingots if im in a pinch.
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Mike B.
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I posted to this thread yesterday. Don't know what happened to it. I have a spool of lead wire that is .250 in diameter. I listed it on the swapping and selling forum several months ago with no interest at all. I wanted to swap it for an equal weight of pure lead. I swage but only .38 and 45 cal. paper patch bullets.
Bill
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the lead wire you have is probley pure lead you can try to swage a bullet andsee
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Geez, Corbin gets $35 for 10 lbs ! and even with flat rate shipping that'll be $4.50 a lb.
Anybody extruding their own would probably have a market for it at half that. I've just started using a core mold for .224 (0.185 mold size) and can see why using the wire is attractive, though more expensive - for my use, 50 grains of lead into 70,000 would give me about 1400 cores for 60 grain bullets - over $0.03 each compared to zero and my time.
I also tried to trade lead wire straight across for pure lead ingots and got no response. Decided to just melt some of it down and mix with tin 20-1 for Hollow Points !
Jerry
S&W .38/44 Outdoorsman Accumulator
Jerry:
What's just the five spools of wire weigh?
And pm me or e'mail, with the value you need for it.
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