I don't know anywhere it is mandatory to turn in your old battery. I turn them in because the available lead in them is not worth forfeiting the battery core deposit.
I don't know anywhere it is mandatory to turn in your old battery. I turn them in because the available lead in them is not worth forfeiting the battery core deposit.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
Just go to the "wheel weight mine" - your local shopping center parking lot.
Cogno, Ergo, Boom
If you're gonna be stupid, don't pull up short. Saddle up and ride it all the way in.
This is a legitimate concern of mine too, and is why I've started getting into range sifting. I'm in my early 30s, and bullet taxes and lead restrictions are a real possibility given the current political environment. Spending my time at the range getting scrap is a chore, but if everything goes bad I'll have an advantage over those who waited. If they ever decided to shut down my local public range I would be out there nightly sifting for lead trying to get every scrap I could before it's gone.
It was always cheaper to smelt the lead in Mexico where the environmental regs are lax and to import it back than to do it here. With lead being phased out for wheelweights there us a glut of lead on the scrap market so salvage prices are low. There is no shortage of lead. The ammunition companies have almost never used primary lead, unless required to meet some government spec. Almost all ammunition made in the US since WW2 has been made using recycled lead scrap.
Only fly in the ointment is that the scrappers don't want to sell to small hobby users because they need to sell to a company having an EPA end-user certificate, like an ammunition company or a manufacturer who uses secondary lead to make cable sheathing, flue pipe collars, chemical sinks, boat keels, ballast weights for fork lifts, etc.
The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
Contact your local X-Ray Service company. They remove old X-Ray equipment and install new. I should known,I did it for 35 years.
Each old GE, Siemans, Picker,etc X-Ray tables has hundreds and hundreds of pounds of hard alloy lead in them.
Ask them to let you disassemble the old tables before they take it to the scrap yard.
I have saved tons of lead for casting. All free for the taking if your willing to work for it.
M829!!!
Sabot, with mild steel penetrator.
Lose some mass, gain some speed.
Or
All steel with copper driving bands?
And
All copper has been working pretty well for hunting.
When there’s no lead I’ll retire on my stockpile sales!
Yep I be needin' a new flag pole
"Sailboat Keels...
Lotsa junk sailboats out there, many have 2600 lbs or so of lead in the keels, and they can't hardly give the boats away.
You get a nice Flag pole in the deal too."
Yep I be needin' a new flag pole
There was one advertised not too far from me, something like 2700 pounds and the guy is asking fifty cents a pound. Still in one block, he says he has the machinery to load it on a trailer for someone.
Probably a good deal for someone, but I think I have enough to last me and most of my shooting is where I can recover it someday. Kinda figured I can spend my time shooting and reloading or spend it breaking down a 2700 lb hunk of lead. I'd rather shoot and reload.
Salvaging range berms is a good answer if you have a place that will let you do it and there's enough shooting volume to concentrate it in a small area.
There is so much lead out there in the world I doubt any bullet caster will not be able to get it. But I suppose they could regulate the helll out of it.
Just my luck. I can find lead when I am broke and in debt but I can not find a thing when I am flush with greenbacks. Just one bonaza with the mother lode and I would be set for the next fifteen years or death, whichever happens to show up first. Currently broke and in debt. Go figure...
Fifty years a lawyer and you still look down your nose at your fellow citizens who study and know law better than you. Every
citizen is an attorney.
My son just joined the local PD, got him asking his sarg about the berm at their training range.
Cogno, Ergo, Boom
If you're gonna be stupid, don't pull up short. Saddle up and ride it all the way in.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
I bought a 3000 lb keel about four years ago. The marina cut it into 600lb pieces so I could carry them in my Tacoma. They just hung it from a crane and chainsawed pieces off. I put a blue plastic tarp under it in my driveway and cut it into 100lb chunks with a chainsaw. Then I melted those down with a cast iron dutch oven over wood fires in a 55 gallon drum and poured it into muffin pans from the dollar store. It did wear out the saw chain. My neighbors already think I'm insane.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
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 |