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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
Still a scrapper , always will I guess , just a cheepo , down to a couple hundred pounds of WW and maybe twenty pounds of Babbit and a box full of lino and a bucket of WW I have to sort thru .. Only issue I have is all my boolits are heavy ..
Schamankungulo
Matt. 5:14-16
GMCS USN ret.
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/for...27-The-Captain
Located in the sponsored vendors The Captin is a great seller of this community. She currently only selling range reclaimed lead which has become the new CWW and is great for most Handgun caliber boolits as is. If your looking for softer you can always add pure lead to it. PC helps but only so much but for higher pressure and velocity you will have to harden the lead a little.
Hey kenk. Nice seeing you here!
I don't have any advice to add beyond the excellent feedback already in this thread. For me it was just a matter of letting my friends know I was in the market. Before long one of my friends who I didn't know worked "lead adjacent" hooked me up.
I had very poor luck with tire shops here. Once when buying tires I asked and they gave me two boxes of brand new SOWW. Not sure it I bought tires and got free lead or if I bought very expensive lead and got free tires Other than that all the shops already had a guy. However, population density in the mountain west is much lower and guys that cast bullets is higher per capita so I don't live in a "target rich" environment per se. I fear in Minnesota you may be competing with guys that cast fishing luress and weights.
My isotope lead page: http://fellingfamily.net/isolead/
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 |