Posted: 4/21/2008 6:29:57 PM EDT
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So the snow pile I've been using for a shooting berm this winter melted, and all the bullets inside it are on the ground. Is it worth it to sell the lead somehow 
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I've got at least 20 lbs of 230gr .45 bullets Checking; Lead is about $1.25 per pound and copper $3.90 so I'm guessing selling the lead isnt too profitable... Maybe I'll just save them for when I do get a blackpowder someday top recast them on 
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I once shot a bunch of .38 FMJ round nose into a snow bank. In the spring they were all in a pretty tight pile. They had rifling on them, but Im sure I could have reloaded them and shot them again. ETA I have buckets of odds and ends lead round balls and bullets. Im going to cast them into blocks or keep the small balls and use in my cannon I just got. |
Have you priced out scrap prices for lead lately? An active winter's shooting means quite a bit of beer money lying there on the ground, plus picking up those bullets and recycling them means that your kids won't eat them and neither will your animals. CJ |
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Never thought to try it....but I guess its water....and water stops bullets.....would still want something else backing it up. I would definitely recycle the lead...just save the bullets up in a coffee can or soemthing. When you get enough of them take them to a recycler....or melt them down yourself and just sell a bar on EE. |
Would the cost of shipping make it worthwhile? |
The jackets are a "guilding alloy", which is a type of bronze. So you probably won't get scrap copper prices for it. |
GLOBAL FUCKING WARMING FOR THE MUTHER-FUCKIN WIN! FUCK EARTH DAY! It was started by Ira Einhorn, the CONVICTED MURDERER of Holly Maddux. Fuck that piece of hippy shit and may his nuts fall off in prison 
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Check eBay. People are selling bars of linotype for a bit more than a dollar a pound. |