guzma393
Active Member
Pure lead can be obtained from asking a bunch of scrapyards around your area if they have any lead available to sell. Most of the time, it's sheetlead and lead pipe that they have at hand. Stay away from wheel weights unless you like sorting a whole bucket and only getting 10% of it to actually be lead. You can buy refined lead online easily from ebay, rotometals, acme bullet company, etc.
https://www.rmrbullets.com/shop/rmr...llet-cores-approximately-12-brinnel-hardness/ - decently priced at 1.67/lb lead for pistol and gas checked rifle bullets. Mix in a bit of super hard alloy or linotype if you want to make it harder.
I've also seen homemade bullet traps for private ranges used to reclaim lead for casting/scrapping purposes to make shooting cheaper.
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