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
no one ever will have enough, because of groups like this, we are generous to our like minded bros and sisters of the trigger. We cant stand to know someone suffers when we can trade, lend, sell, or offer up, to help them out in tough times, so I believe the answer is, NO, you never have enough for friends and family or self.
This, exactly.
Lots of folks right now are paying the price for not having stocked up on shooting/loading supplies over the past three years, when the getting was good.
So just this weekend I let a thousand primers, a thousand rounds of 45 ACP and 300 Bonded Nosler Solid Base go to another fellow who was needy.
You can never have too much. Somebody is always going to be short in your sphere.
I have just over 1,200 pounds of alloy, but honestly, I could use a thousand pounds or so of pure lead to make another pile of ingots!
Scrounging for pb...
USMC 0351
I just scored 1400 lbs of lead pipe and vents. $0.50 per pound. That, with my existing amount should do it.
Yeah, I've got a lifetime supply; but I keep adding to it.
Don
NRA Certified Metallic Cartridge Reloading Instructor
NRA Life Member
Yeah, I think it may be something like an addiction!
Depends on how long I live I guess...if I crater this year then yeh, I have plenty...
At the rate I am using my supply I think I have a lifetime supply!
I have been trying to get to the range once a week since I have not been working but shop work has been stopping me from going.
Hopefully I can get caught up so I can spend more time at the range!
Beyond a lifetime supply of lead and alloying materials. Recycled antimony lead. Isotope lead in ingot form and COWW fluxed and in ingot form already. Plenty of tin, solder and foundry lead/Monotype/Linotype. I wouldn't pass up a good deal for foundry/mono/linotype but I don't NEED it.
I had several tons of clean I got... them I got a divorce. Wife changed the locks and sold my lead among everything else while proceedings happened. Now I’m looking for lead again at tire shops but it’s all zinc now. No ingots for sheepdog.
Lifetime supply? My lifetime, or the lifetime of some dirt bag with ill intent toward me or my family? Failure drill should take 3 boolits, I've definitely got that on hand. More casting? Few hundred pounds, and a good supplier.
Common sense Gun Safety . . .
Is taught at the Range!
Been scrounging for about three years, and so far I stack faster than I shoot it by far. Think I have a 1/4 ton in the garage, 200 lbs. of cable sheathing and 300 coww, all in ingots. Course I don't shoot a mess of 500 grain boolits either. Got perhaps 35 lbs. of pewter too. Must have a couple hundred pounds of cast bullets on hand as well.
"If everyone is thinking the same thing it means someone is not thinking"
"A rat became the unit of currency"
I have boolit traps that will catch every lead boolit I shoot from 55 grain to 550 grain. so yes, recycle - reuse I have a lifetime supply IF I quit casting for friends.
SOO I'm always looking for lead but won't pay premium prices for it (I'll pay 50¢ a pound for pure and up to $1.50 for monotype/tin/pewter
I have enough lead to make 17,500 200 grain boolits. What I don't have is 17,500 primers.
"If everyone is thinking the same thing it means someone is not thinking"
"A rat became the unit of currency"
Will be trying to buy it cheap and stack it deep. Have about 1100 pounds (500kg)
I have a line on 2000 to 2500lbs of NIB COWW, mostly 1.5 oz and up. No sorting necessary. Any idea what a fair offer is? I'm already sitting on (literally) a ton of ingots and haven't bought any in a while. Not sure if I can ever use up what I currently have, but more can't hurt, right?
Being that I'm on the dark side of 60 I do believe I have plenty. I have over 200 lbs from my days as a plumber, 295 lbs that a friend gifted me (this is sheet lead used for xray rooms), & 500+ lbs from an old sailboat. this should keep me going for a while.
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 |