Last time I got tires mounted I took the weights off my tires before I took the old beast in. Kept almost 14 oz.
Last time I got tires mounted I took the weights off my tires before I took the old beast in. Kept almost 14 oz.
Have a similar problem here where I live. The "big city" near me has about 6 tire shops. None of them will give, sell, or trade any WW at all. I was advised that they sell them to a recycle center and that's that. So I just cast with lead and keep my velocity down. What a deal huh?
Wade
You can never have enough rounds! Keep reloading!
Do you guys know what the price of Lead is , it opened this morning at almost $1.20 a lb. !
Hi all new to the form. I had my best luck at the smaller tire shops, all the big guy’s said they had contracts with salvage company’s. And could not just sell them. Last spring I scrounged up some 3/8 steel plates and welded up a bullet trap.
Researching bullet traps, there are some simple solutions; some guys just fill a plywood box with rubber mulch.
I know in my case, its nice not scrounging lead all over the country.
On a side note, I had some reclaimed lead I dug out of a pistol range, it had been setting around for a year or so, this spring, I dumped some in the Dutch oven and fired up the turkey cooker.
I was getting muffin pans and the rest of the stuff together, all of a sudden I hear a load bang. My first thought was water in the pot, I checked the bucket, and the rest of the lead in the bucket was bone dry.
I started looking around the pot and found a 380 case laying a couple feet from the pot.
The only conclusion I could come up with, was that someone must have had a miss fire, and threw the case into the backstop.
And when I screened the berm , the 380 case ended up in with the lead.
First time in 40 years of casting and melting reclaimed lead, I have had anything like this happen, good lesson about just dumping reclaimed range lead in the pot.
umm there's also steel weights , best way is to try and cut or nick them with either a knife or a pair of side cutters ( dikes, diagonal cutters , what ever you prefer to call them ) lead will cut zinc is much much harder as is steel , with a knife lead will sliver not so with zinc or steel , some guys just run their smelting pot at or below 700 F , the zinc weights floats and is skimmed off , personally i prefer to not take the chance and check every one with side cutters , it's a pain but surely beats getting zinc in my alloy
My aggregate cost was about 28 bucks for a five gallon bucket full. Now ..... they are no longer available as our State has outlawed them except for trucks!
Three 44s
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 |