I am going to say something that Ive heard from many wise gun people about how much ammo one should have and lead is a component for ammo anyway.
"If ya know how much ya got, you dont have enough."
No, What I Have Won't Last
Yes, I Have Enough to Make It to the Other Side
I Just Don't Know
I Hoard for the Sake of Hoarding Itself
I am going to say something that Ive heard from many wise gun people about how much ammo one should have and lead is a component for ammo anyway.
"If ya know how much ya got, you dont have enough."
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson
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I answered - not really sure. I have over 2 tons of lead/alloy. 800 pounds can be considered pure the rest WW.
I have about 50 pounds of Lead Free Solder - although I don't use it much.
If I start shooting my 45/90's again where each round is 1 oz of lead - No I don't have enough.
I am retiring for the second time Aug 31st. Wife will probably put me back to work AGAIN, but I will take a few months off first.
I can do a lot of shooting in 2 months when the range is in my back yard. But if I shoot the steel targets all I can reclaim is dust and my misses!
Live another 10 years - maybe I have enough.
Big Bore = 45+
Hello
I have NO IDEA what the cross box weighs, but I KNOW it is HEAVY
Mike
I work in the automotive field and have a few friends who do also. I have had access to clip-on and stick on weights for the last 20 or so years. I still ask around at local tire stores and scrap yards because you never know when you might score. Wheel weights are becoming harder to get even for people in my position. Do I have a lifetime supply? Probably. Will my son have enough? I doubt it.
My lead supply grows almost every week, but I also cast frequently so it sort of evens out.
Give us this day our daily lead.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
If you don't want 1984 you're going to need some 1776.
WWGWD
I figure that if you have a "lifetime supply", it either means that you don't shoot enough or don't plan on living long enough...
I've got a few hundred pounds of WW, lino, and some unknown alloy... Not enough for a lifetime, but it's enough that as long as I'm constantly looking, my stockpile is not decreasing too much over time...
I cast close to 200lbs of lead into various boolits prior to this move to Kansas and gave another 50lbs away to a beginning caster so I'm sitting on a stockpile of zero of wheelweights or reclaimed range boolits so the majority of my work this summer and fall will be to rebuild my stockpile from the local garages and ranges before I breakdown and purchase lead ingots from others.
I must retrieve my lead account back into the positive...
Bruce
I Cast my Boolits, Therefore I am Happy.
Bona Fide member of the Jeff Brown Hunt Club
I don't have enough to last. I have been hoarding all I can get but where I live WW are hard to come buy. I can get soft lead that doesn't seem to be a problem. I traded a guy on on here pound per pound pure lead for WW. That helped me out a bunch. I pick up all I can at the range. That stuff works good for my 45 acp. What I would like to do is trade pure lead for Linotype. I have a couple hundred pounds of WW. It's amazing how fast it goes.
Dont pee down my back and tell me its raining.
At 70, with 6 tons, I think I have enough. Did I mention I had 7 close relatives, that made it, well past a century?
If I see a WW, or think I can score, I don't know how to pass it up. Fifty year old habits are hard to break.
I started casting about a year ago. Thought it was a great idea to be able to supply my own needs without having to rely on someone elses delivery date or the rising costs. Little did I know about the scrounging disease and did I ever get it bad. Right now I have over 4000 lbs of WW ingots and pure lead from jacketed bullets. Another 500 lbs of pure 99% lead ingots and 50 lbs of 50/50 solder. I say approximately because I have no accurate count, I just keep adding to the pile as it comes through the door. Will I stop, not a chance, once you're hooked there's no cure that I'm aware of other than getting planted. I worked hard to set up supply sources and getting contacts and now that it's paying off, I just can't stop.
For those who are stockpiling lead, do you have enough primers also stockpiled to accommodate that amount of lead? In blim's case, that would equal about 138K primers assuming 230 gr for .45ACP...
Nobody ask if I had enough powder and primers. That's why I have so much lead. I have been trading one for the other.
....then that serves a purpose, and the question becomes "Do you have enough lead to keep you shooting? (which includes financing powder and primers)That's why I have so much lead. I have been trading one for the other
Probably not! Especially if I'm reading the Nov. elections correctly. I hope I'm wrong and I am doing everything(which is limited) I can to educate people how to vote.
The last election brought unprecedented shortages and price increases. I'm afraid the next one will be worse. If moderators feel this is out of place here feel free to delete. This one post shouldn't taint the entire thread.
John
W.TN
My home storage limits are 10,000 primers and 20 lbs of powder. My son owns and acerage outside of town and I have my own storage bunker. I sit around 160,000 primers and 200 lbs of powder of various brands and types. We went through a time when primers were limited to 100 per customer and the prices were genuine rape. Pay or you don't get any! I sure don't want to go through that again and with primers coming out of the US , homeland security just might put a kybosh and any cross border shipments. We just have to plan ahead.
Im with freightman,at 64 i believe i can make it to the great beyond with what i have....but depending on which direction i go(UP---DOWN) heaven will have all the lead i need and every gun i ever wished for,while down below might just be too warm for my supply to last.
Man what a garage sale the wife will have selling lead....cases....primers....loaders....tumblers... etc.
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 |