Another question for you.

[fiver]

i got one single big batch of ingots under the bench [calculated to make about 200-K 200gr. bullets] 2 buckets of range scrap, and 8-9 buckets of sorted 80's-90's ww's out back.
i still spend a good half hour walking the berms every time i go down to shoot.

then again i pick up shot shell hulls every time i go trap shooting and i have a 12' wide shelf 8' high of them.
maybe there's just sumthin wrong with me.

 

[creosote]

I dunno, ......I'd be ten feet back , nonchalantly lookin up at balloons .... Hoping you missed a few.

 

[Bret4207]

I bet I have not used 150# of wheel weights in my life. Lots of pure mixed with Lino or mono.

Now range scrap, I have enough that I don’t even collect it any more. The berms will hold onto it for me.

It all depends on what you have easy access too. I've haven't used 5lbs of range scrap in my life, but I bet I had close to a ton of COWW at one point. No commercial ranges here, the "gun clubs" are all geared towards shotgun. Most "ranges" are handy sandpits, and there's no designated area to shoot in. So outside of the few castings I shot and recovered and remelted, I have no access to range scrap.

 

[JonB]

There is simply no such thing as "too much" of many things, cash and COWW being 2 of those things!

Yeah, it's a drag, I got too much cash and too much Stash...What's a guy gonna do?

 

[richhodg66]

The public range i used to frequent but has been in renovation for a couple of years didn't have a problem with me scrounging the pistol berm when no one was shooting. I carried a sieve and an E tool and could get a five gallon bucket in a few minutes of work. I made a pretty big linotype purchase i luced into a few years ago and have a steady source of tin, so i think i,m set for life on lead. For the past seven years and the forseeable future, most of my shooting is on my own berm which i'll mine eventually.

Range salvage is the way to go nowadays if you can. We have an abandoned range about 60 miles from here the state shut down but hasn't done anything with.

 

[richhodg66]

Posted before i meant to. Been considering figuring what i'd need to do to mine thst berm of the abandoned range. It was in use 40 years and last timr I went out there, the re was a lot in the berm. Not surr I need it bad enough. I wonder how long it will be before tge state pays a contractor to come and do it at taxpayers expense

 

[Brad]

I pick up range scrap by hand, one at a time. My best day, with my daughter, was 168#. I brought home over 1300# that year.

I hate to think of what I could collect in a day with a cement mixer, water, and a mesh strainer. I bet I could go over a ton in a day.

 

[JWFilips]

My buddy Ed and I try to collect every thing we shoot especially pistol bullets if no one is on the range. We keep the pistol bullets separate because they are BHN 10/11 and if collecting rifle bullets they are BHN 12/13 I have a lot of Linotype ingots but never use them any more!
Now it is more important to have pure lead to mix with our range collected commercial hard cast scrap!

 

[richhodg66]

The range I was a member of in Topea when I lived therr paid a company to mine the pistol range. Big equipment to sift it and they had all the scrap in these big bags made of some kind of heavy fabric. Each one had at least the volume of a 55 gallon barrel and there were at least a half dozen full when I saw them, I'm sure there were more. I have a picture of it somewhere.