What is your "buy it now" price?

[2ridgebacks]

No ulterior motives here, just genuinely curious where I am relative to the rest. I'm new to buying lead so I want to know, what makes you get your wallet out? Not what you are paying now, but what catches your attention when you hear it.

[bhop]

Free lol

[repawn]

A dollar or less a pound shipped - free would be great anytime.

[bigfelipe]

.40/#

[evan price]

50 cents a pound and I take all they have, if it's random scrap lead.
If it's verifiably solder or pewter or high-tin babbitt or type metal (in the recognizable original form- rolls, bars, linotype, letterpress, etc. NOT re-ingotized or melted globs or etc) $1 per pound.

[Sasquatch-1]

Range scrap. My retired time only. Pewter, I just spent $2.00 for a 19.5 oz stein.

[nwellons]

My scrap wheel weights range from free to .50/lb. I won't go over that. If buying ingots, I would go $1/lb plus shipping.

[kcinnick]

Hmm, I pay somewhere between $1.60-$1.70 per pound for bullet alloy delivered. I pick up wheel weight ingots on the boards sometimes when I need something softer, but I can add on pure lead, or 3% antimony lead to my bulk orders and get bulk pricing. Pure lead actually costs MORE than the alloys, go figure.

[bobthenailer]

I personaly would not pay more than 25 cents a pound for WW after you sort out the Zinc & steel weights and smelted clips along with the other junk your yeald can be as low as 50% which can double the cost to 50 cents a pound not counting the labor , time & expense of gathering ,sorting & smelting.

I now only use range mined lead , it is about 95% or better usable material and usually has a BHN of 14 to 15 bhn in the 4 years ive been mining seriously ive collected almost 2,000 lbs

[Love Life]

Depends how bad I need the lead.

If I had tons of lead and just wanted to add more to my stash, then I would lowball and go as cheap as possible.

If I was new to casting I would by from a dealer for a couple bucks a pound. Buy $200 worth every month for awhile and you'll be set.

As I said. It all depends. I rarely get lead under $1.00 a lb because I only buy smelted and ingotized lead. It is cheaper for me that way since I live in the middle of nowhere, and I would more than $1.00 a lb into lead if I went scrounging.

[trk]

Tin - under 10 cents a pound as scrap solder.
WW - $20 a 5 gallon bucket.
'pure' lead 75 cents a pound.

[10 ga]

what makes you get your wallet out? Not what you are paying now, but what catches your attention when you hear it.

It is $.50 at the scrap yard and that is sorted scrap, and it includes all the lead alloys, even old solder and babbit etc... That gets my undivided attention when I'm there. I usually buy everything they have on hand. Varys from a few lbs. to biggest haul was 380 lbs. ($190) and I had over 1200 lbs. of Al, Cu and Fe to sell and took some cash home as well as the lead. Free or up to $20 bucket for unsorted WW gets attention. I've never had to buy smelted ingots as I'm building my own cache. Have about 3K and over 1/2 that has been no cost other than smelting. I have paid up to $2 for larger pewter items at yard sales but never over $.50 lb for lead. That is the way it is here for me.

10 ga

[Springfield]

I have a Craigslist add for "lead wanted". I can usually get all I need for .60-.85 /lb. I pay more if it is smaller pieces but if it is large and I have to cut it up or it will be a pain to smelt I pay less. WW with clips I won't pay more than .45, too much work. I have a guy locally who scraps out sailboats and he sells 40 lb ingots for .70/lb. I had another guy who sold me a bunch of rolled up roofing sheet for .65/lb. A guy I shoot with does machine repairs and he is always coming over with buckets of scrap lead of all kinds, he I trade bullets for as he shoots BP like I do. It pays to be patient and cultivate contacts. Online here I see that 1.00/lb shipped goes pretty fast.

[mold maker]

The only scrappie that sells locally, charges up to .60/lb for soft. When he has WW's they run .45 for smalls, to .55 for truck type. I haven't be able to find any type or solder in quite a while.

[2ridgebacks]

We mine a good bit of range scrap for free. We are paying 80 cents a lb for pure lead. It may be a tad high, but the supply looks somewhat unlimited and I hate to turn him away or try to bargain. It looks like we're in the ballpark anyway.

[MarkP]

I have been purchasing re-claimed shot @ $0.85 / lb; it is very easy to work. Only issue I have ran into is there is some steel shot mixed in, really not too big of a deal since is floats and can be skimmed off. After I informed the seller of the steel shot he has refind his process and now runs it over electro magnets as he polishes and graphites it in a vibro tumbler. I could get it for $0.15 to 0.20 less / lb if there is no value added just wash only. (no polish and graphiting )

I bought 400 lbs of Linotype for $0.50 / lb in 2009 and a few months ago bought an add'l 1,100 lbs @ $0.58 / lb. Most of the 400 lbs was foundry type very high Sb & Sn so I add a few slivers of foundry type to the re-cliamed shot melt for the tin. Foundrytype does have some Cu in it but I have not noticed any issues.

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

I found a place that swages bullets. I buy their 97% lead, 3% antimony weeps for lead spot prices. Tin is my only killer, I have two radiator shops saving me drips, but they want $7-$8 a pound.

Rich

[Beagle333]

I don't have any FTF numbers, because there are no local lead/tin sources here.
'Buck a pound - shipped (stick-on, clip-on, or pure), gets me busy calculating how much I can afford.
Pewter or tin.... $8/# shipped or not, and I'm rolling some quarters!

Less than that, and I'm yanking the keyboard off the desk, trying to type "I'll take it!!!!!".

It's an addiction, I tell ya!

[fredj338]

AT 50c/#, I am buying 1000# easy.

[Idz]

I volunteer to maintain and clean our range traps. 200 lbs of lead cost me about $2 gas and $5 in propane.