In the 80's I used to travel a few hundred miles from home for the company I worked for, in a 3/4 ton truck. Besides my tools I could carry at least 10 buckets of weights. I kept about 20 pure lead ingots in my cross box, and when the fellow told me he was saving weights for "muzzle loaders", I would bring the ingots in and tell him to give those to "muzzle loaders" and let me have the weights. Almost always the guy would give me a few buckets, and tell me to stop by next time I was in town! I started dropping off 10# every trip to a tire store on the interstate, and he usually had two or three buckets of truck weights saved for me!
I wouldn't pay much over 25 for a full bucket. Hard to know what the yield will be.
Got a bucket 3/4 full 2 wks ago yield was 7 lbs of lead 90% was Fe They were stick on weights , hardly worth the time to sort.
I see guys on fbook advertizing for bulk lead wanted ........might be the same handlers of stolen property who offer $200 each for cat convs on fbook.
Many think primers are going back to $30 too. A 5gal bucket of good clip ww is worth an easy $50. Though I still have a couple to melt down, I dont even try anymore, too much zinc & steel. I used to pay $25 for a bucket, then it went to $30 & the yield went down to 50%. That was when I quit ww from the tire shops here.
EVERY GOOD SHOOTER NEEDS TO BE A HANDLOADER.
NRA Cert. Inst. Met. Reloading & Basic Pistol
It all depends on how hard up for lead a person is.
That is the driving force.
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 |