Lead sources & prices

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gilly562 posted this 15 March 2021

Hi, new here. Looking for any recommendations on sources of lead and pricing. Thanks

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Bud Hyett posted this 15 March 2021

Welcome to the CBA Forum. These are good people with many questions and a variety of answers.

Lead right now is scarce as are all firearms items. The best sources are friends, scrap yards, and tire shops, Stay away from battery lead, the newer batteries contain elements that are poisonous when smelted. The are two several problems; some states require the tire shop to sell only to scrap dealers, many wheel weights today are zinc, and the wheelweights are often dirt coated.

Not to rain on your parade, but sources are getting fewer. Possibly the quickest is to ask competition pistol shooters where they are getting lead.

Shooting Plain Base, I buy lead alloy from Roto-Metal when on sale and am well-stocked. The other good buy a decade ago was a half ton of used monotype when it was cheap. I mix it with softer alloy to get alloy for rifle and pistol.

Farm boy from Illinois, living in the magical Pacific Northwest

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Tom G posted this 15 March 2021

You can usually dig it out of the backstop at the local pistol range for free. We do it once a year at my club. It can be cleaned up and smelted down. Usually runs about 11 or 12 on the BHN hardness scale. Good for making cast bullets.

Tom Gray

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Michael S posted this 15 March 2021

I buy my lead alloy from Action Bullets and Alloy inc. 1-785-754-3609 he gives a military and veteran discount no price difference if you want you purchase in 2lb ingot verses the 7lb ingots they normally do. As busy as they are now you call and leave your name and number and state you want to order bullets or allow. He calls you when he can. All five times I have purchased alloy from them it has been clean

GOD, United States of America, US Marine Corps, Family, Self

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gilly562 posted this 15 March 2021

Thanks for the tips.