......and that's about 1/3 of it. I wish I vould say that it followed me home, or, rather my back wishes it had followed me home, but NO! Box by box and bucket by bucket we (Cheryl & I) loaded it into the Subaru and took it home, riding low.
An old friend, a local gunsmith, had passed away and we were helping to clean out the shop. Over 500 guns had been transferred to an auction house already, keeping BATFE happy (yes, they paid a visit). The family was going to scrap all this metal (EEEKKK!) but I stopped them B4 they did that. There's a couple more loads to be gathered up and then I can begin smelting, it will be coming soon to a sale site near and dear to us all. Gimme a couple weeks to get it poured up and packaged and I'll have it posted on S&S.
I'd never seen a spool of lead foil before.
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Here's the first load.
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Some of these bars are marked 60/40, some are marked "Half & Half", and some aren't marked at all. So, 60/40, 40% tin?
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These are a lifetime of handloaded ammo that never got shot, no labels, unknown loads. They were going to scrap it all (OMG!), "No, let me take them home and I'll pull the bullets and dump the powder. We can probably sell most of the bullets and brass!" "OK", they said. Boys, it's gonna' be a long winter.............
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