Best place to buy scrap lead

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What is the best place to buy lead , looking to cast for 12gauge slug and buckshot .
Thanks
 
Check your local classified like Kijiji and FB marketplace, usually a few guys selling already processed lead, or scrap like lead flashing or linotype. Wheel weights are a gamble, shops either already have a disposal method, or you are getting a increasingly large portion of iron and zinc weights.
 
Days of cheap easy to find lead is gone.

LOts of people looking for lead. Advertized once on market place and have at least 5 people asking for more.

Expect to pay anywhere from $2-7, with the most common pricing being between $2.50- $5.00/LB
 
I've got some nice ingots if you are located near Stratford ON.

Not worth the hassle to buy scrap lead and melt it into ingots if it's just for a small amount.
IMO you'd be better off spending your time in buying ready to use ingots at $2.00 to $3.00 per lb and cast a few more slugs and buck shot than you need and sell those to your shooting buddies. This will likely pay for your lead.
 
Ask at your range if they want the pistol area cleaned out. Tyvec suit, good mask, make yourself a screen out of 1/4 mesh. Got 550 lbs out of ours. Always fun making ingots, watching the fmj float to top.
 
FLHTCUI said:
Go to a boat yard where there many broken dreams.
Generally there are some with lead keels you might be able to salvage from.
Rob
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That will get you a few lifetimes worth of lead and a few days of work getting and processing. Not sure if that would be the best advice to a beginner caster :)
 
talk to the owner/manager of a roofing company and let them know you are looking for lead sheeting. they might give it to you for a decent price because it saves them the time and trouble of taking it to the scrap yard or maybe a bottle of sipping whiskey if the guy has a red nose and bloodshot eyes. very few homes around now that still have lead sheeting under the shingles but if you luck out you could get 50-100 lbs of lead from one large old vintage house.
 
Using car batteries is only for someone with a brain and experience and not expecting much lead. I work for a auction company and a guy that owns a scarp yard and puts gloves and other items in the sales and buys scrap from us needed help one day and I asked him if he had lead and what I used it for. He had tons of it in many different forms and alloys . All I had to do was help him load junk on is truck.
 
I have an almost full 5 gal pail of lead wheel weights I would sell. I am out in Tillsonburg. Left overs from when I went hard processing lead. I have a few thousand lbs processed and don't care to melt down any more wheel weights LOL.
 
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