lead for molding bullets

[44magsam]

can someone tell me some place on the web to get lead at a good price for molding bullets
thanks

[Deacon KC]

Try some tire shops nearby for old wheel weights, they work great.

[mtgianni]

Rotometals will sell you certified alloys.

[AzShooter]

E-bay is a good place. I've gotten about 400 lbs of lead over the years and have been very happy with the sellers.

[ChuckS1]

Cast Boolits classified section. There's some recovered range lead for $50 for 50 lbs, shipped. Won't beat that anywhere.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18

[fredj338]

Originally Posted by Deacon KC

Try some tire shops nearby for old wheel weights, they work great.

Alas, with Kommifronia banning them two years ago, the rest of the country is drying up. Think about it, Kalif is THE largest auto tire market in the USA, maybe the entire western USA combined. So if they ban lead ww, the manuf are not going to keep making them. Foreign cars banned lead ww about 7-8 yrs ago, so cheap or free ww are quickly becoming extinct. If you have a supply get them now & stack it deep, going forward, steel & zinc will be all that they put on tires.
Other sources; old roofing & plumbing lead, dental lead foil, radioavtive shielding, stain glass came, radiator shops for solder drippings, fishing & diving wts, boat keels, fork lift counter wts. There are probably a few more, but that is a bunch.
Then there is always range lead. At least w/ range lead, I know what the composition is, ww, not so much anymore. You do NOT want zinc in your alloy, it doesn't cast well & even as little as 5% can mess up an entire batch of alloy, ask me how I know. Only use e-bay if the seller is highly recommended. Many have no idea what they are doing or selling & you'll end up with zinc/lead alloy, unuseable.

[paco04]

I wasn't thinking after Katrina, but destroyed sailboats could be had for a song, and I'm sure some of those old 40 footers had a substantial amount of lead in their keels.......

[Fishslayer]

Ditto the cast boolits website.

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