Having recently picked up a Marlin 1895 in good old 45-70 due to a clearance sale at the local Walmart. I have finally decided to stop wavering for years on reloading and step into this arena head long. I would love to be able to shoot the 1895 without concern for the ammo price and with factory rounds costing $1.5 or more a round and funds a little tight. I plan on starting with 45-70 and hopefully expanding into the more calibers as time goes on.
So while I still have a lot of sticky's left to read on this forum and I am working my way through the 180 pages of cast bullet guide for handgunners just to gain some additional knowledge. My first goal is to obtain a good stock of scrap lead before summer. My plan is to pickup a cast iron pot and propane stove during the summer garage sale season along with a toaster oven for powder coating. So I looking for any advice members in the MN area may have for me.
I know no one wants to give up there source or supply of lead but this is my first roadblock. My original plan was to hit up local tire shops for WW like the forums and many different videos talk about but upon doing further research I saw that MN had banned the use of lead in WW at the beginning of 2016 this leads me to believe that I will most likely find iron and zinc instead of lead provided any shops would even give/sell to me. Is that my only option other then buying ingots straight out or do recycling centers in the Twin Cities have cheap scrap lead? Hoping you guys have some wisdom on places I can start hunting for lead.
Thank you
P.S. Sorry if this is the wrong forum I couldn't find any section broken down by state.