Got off work a lil early this morning. Decided to go see if anybody had left some hulls at the Dept.Wildlife Cinservation range. Only found 4. Found about 10lbs of scrap in the run-off washed from the rains we've had lately though. 👍
no real need to wash it but if there's solid bullets, you'll need to cut them if they aren't hollow points or smash to let the lead out. I like a good clean video
Thanks for watching Ben. I wouldn't go through the process of washing it all but the berm at the public range is very dirty. Don't want anything going on the pot that doesn't belong in there.
I used to do this before I found out I could buy scrap lead as cheap as 75 cents per pound. I can sell just a tiny amount of buckshot to cover expenses.
@@12galife It's hardly free, given the labor involved. How much would you charge someone to dig and sift through a bunch of dirt to supply them lead? I sure wouldn't do it for 75 cents per pound. Our local range now wants to charge you for digging it up and for collecting hulls as well.
@@theastro-philosophersappre2786 Yeah, no kidding. These guys quoting prices from like 10 - 20 years ago make me laugh. WHY do it? Because it ALREADY is suitable to be used as bullet lead and is already mixed unlike buying other scrap at the scrapyard. Plus it's free and available when you need some. If you powder coat your bullets like most of us do these days knowing "exact" alloys and "exact" BHNs is for the most part pointless anymore. If you have something that averages out to minimum 8 BHN to around 12 BHN that's more than hard enough to load and cast for common pistol calibers. The days of having to have a chemistry degree to alloy lead and cast bullets have been over for years. I started shooting in 1982 and started reloading and casting in 1989. Back in the days of wax lubes and uncoated bullets a small mistake would lead up your barrel like a sewer pipe taking you hours or days to get out. The powder coat fully encapsulates the lead now and you also don't get smoke like you do with the previous cast lead bullets. Range scrap is fine or you can buy it and add that to the current costs of powder and primers making reloading and casting your own bullets nearly pointless. You can buy factory 9mm FMJ on sale for $10.99 - $12.99 per box of 50 these days. .45 ACP, .45 LC .40 S&W, 10mm, .38 Spl, .357 Mag, .380 ACP, .44 Mag etc etc makes a whole lot more sense. You can cut your cost by at least 50% reloading and casting for these calibers.
Good video. I needed to see how the dirt separated before I melt down the scrap I’ve collected.
Got off work a lil early this morning. Decided to go see if anybody had left some hulls at the Dept.Wildlife Cinservation range. Only found 4. Found about 10lbs of scrap in the run-off washed from the rains we've had lately though. 👍
no real need to wash it but if there's solid bullets, you'll need to cut them if they aren't hollow points or smash to let the lead out. I like a good clean video
Thanks for watching Ben. I wouldn't go through the process of washing it all but the berm at the public range is very dirty. Don't want anything going on the pot that doesn't belong in there.
I used to do this before I found out I could buy scrap lead as cheap as 75 cents per pound. I can sell just a tiny amount of buckshot to cover expenses.
Thanks for watching John. I do buy lead once in a while if I can get it cheap. But free is the way to go for me
@@12galife It's hardly free, given the labor involved. How much would you charge someone to dig and sift through a bunch of dirt to supply them lead? I sure wouldn't do it for 75 cents per pound. Our local range now wants to charge you for digging it up and for collecting hulls as well.
@@showproja I agree it's a bit of hard work but I have plenty of free time these days so it gives me something constructive to do
Wish I could find it for 75 cents a pound!
@@theastro-philosophersappre2786
Yeah, no kidding. These guys quoting prices from like 10 - 20 years ago make me laugh. WHY do it? Because it ALREADY is suitable to be used as bullet lead and is already mixed unlike buying other scrap at the scrapyard. Plus it's free and available when you need some. If you powder coat your bullets like most of us do these days knowing "exact" alloys and "exact" BHNs is for the most part pointless anymore. If you have something that averages out to minimum 8 BHN to around 12 BHN that's more than hard enough to load and cast for common pistol calibers. The days of having to have a chemistry degree to alloy lead and cast bullets have been over for years. I started shooting in 1982 and started reloading and casting in 1989. Back in the days of wax lubes and uncoated bullets a small mistake would lead up your barrel like a sewer pipe taking you hours or days to get out. The powder coat fully encapsulates the lead now and you also don't get smoke like you do with the previous cast lead bullets. Range scrap is fine or you can buy it and add that to the current costs of powder and primers making reloading and casting your own bullets nearly pointless. You can buy factory 9mm FMJ on sale for $10.99 - $12.99 per box of 50 these days. .45 ACP, .45 LC .40 S&W, 10mm, .38 Spl, .357 Mag, .380 ACP, .44 Mag etc etc makes a whole lot more sense. You can cut your cost by at least 50% reloading and casting for these calibers.
How do you get the range owner to let you do this?
It is on state land open to the public. Thanks for watching
Hello, i need help. Can you tell me the average composition of Range Lead i.e Tin(Sn), Antimony(Sb), Lead(Pb) etc ?
Sorry bud I don't know
Lot's of bullets there .
Thanks for watching James