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How many of you have the availability of range lead in your area? I bought some last fall and alloyed it in to Lyman #2 by adding Tin and Antimony. I treat it as if it is pure lead.
So I was wondering if any of you recycle?
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27th, 2009 04:42 AM |
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Yeah sorta, I pick up spent lead when I can, when the range is vacated or think about it. I love finding those big honkers. Seems like the best time is after a mild or medium rain has passed through. Our range has been in existence since the...... 40's (pre-senior moment) so, its there!
I haven't mined a whole lot though but I do have an ongoing running collection jug.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 28th, 2009 07:18 PM |
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i grab as much as i can and try to go over to the range about once a month just to pick up lead.
i usually get about a 5 gal bucket in a years time.
i like to sort mine back out as i go, along with the cast stuff. i thro the plated jacketed and obvious b/p stuff together and put it in a separate bucket.
i mix this up with ww's at about 25% range to 75% ww's it is great for the levers and handguns,it's also awesome for lowering the antimonial wash in rifle bbls after being water dropped.
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Ranges around here guard their berms pretty zealously. Some of the local salvage yards do sell lead, and prices aren't too bad. I just find it where I can.
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I scooped up 400 hundred pounds of dirt off the range 6 weeks ago. Melted out 120 pounds of clean ingots.
Way too much work for the yeild.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29th, 2009 03:50 PM |
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I make a wooden frame out of 2 x 4 and nail some hardware fabric to it and sift the dirt through it. If it is too clumpy I use the garden hose, spraying thru the dirt. Once in the past I made a shoot that poured the dirt into the hardware fabric, it got away from me a few times.
This is like panning for gold.
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The dirt I got from our range was lead colored grey and looked like paste. I melted a couple pots full of the dirt and it yeilded probably 75% lead but it was really time and propane consuming.
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With lead pushing $3 a pound in some places, figure your propane and about half your time at minimum wage. That will give some idea of what the cost factor is to many of the retailers.
Plus I recently bought 50 pounds of WW in ingot form for $60 plus $10.00 for shippinf, at the same time I bought 60 pounds of range lead in "loaf" form for $49 and $10.00 shipping.
I figure what I get from my back stop is maybe $20 in my costs, but it took a while to figure out how to get the lead separated from the dirt.
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I look at this way. When you go out and dig the lead out the bank at range you getting some excise. You getting up and doing something.. I know I am a fat 
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yep.... every bullet i have (several thousand) are cast from recycled lead from an indoor shooting range..............................
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i mine all i can from the burm at my range. plus i pick up what bulletts i find before the burm on both ranges. i stopped by a local tire shop after hours and walked there parking lot. and was suprised to get 2 hand fulls of wheel weights. Last edited on Mon Oct 25th, 2010 05:26 AM by rainyday
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I teach a Hunter Ed class and one of the fathers of a student came up to me after my lecture on handguns and hunting with them asked me if I could use some lead he had stord in his shed. Naturally I jumped on it when he said he'd just give it to me to get it out of his way. So, after the class, I followed him home and ended up with 500 pounds of wheel weights and 100 pounds of pure sheet lead.
About 4 or 5 yearsago, one of the guys on cast Boolits was coming to Tucson to visit relatives and as there were four of us here interested in a linotype buy he offered, jumped on that deal. When he got here, one of our group couldn't make it and he asked if I'd pick up his batch too. I said OK and ended up with about 300 pounds of linotype. Well, I melted my share and made nice one pound ingots and waited and waited for #4 to come pay me for his metal. Ater about a year went by and he kept stalling I told him it's mine now and made it into ingots as well. I use the lino to sweeten the WW metal and lead mix.
FWIW, WW metal from the mid 1970's has more good stuff in it that current WW. I still have about 50 pounds left over from a big buy I made back around 1975 or 6. Bullets cast from that metal runs a good 12 on the BHN scale while current stuff runs around 8 or 9 on the scale. Ad a bit of lino and it's back up to 12. 
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