Best place to buy scrap lead

[sw282]

My club cleans out the backstop every six months or so and smelts the lead into 1lb ingots and sells it for $1/lb. It’s a good deal because I hate smelting dirty lead.

CD. How do you dispose of the bullet jackets? Most jkts are at least 80% copper.
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[antiqueguy]

My club cleans out the backstop every six months or so and smelts the lead into 1lb ingots and sells it for $1/lb. It’s a good deal because I hate smelting dirty lead.

I wish.

 

[antiqueguy]

CD. How do you dispose of the bullet jackets? Most jkts are at least 80% copper.
282

Depends on material but could go for brass at the scrap yard. Make sure it’s not mixed with lead/dross.

 

[savagefan]

Buddy used to buy it from a local hospital radiology department, the "Jars" the material comes in are lined with pure lead.

 

[ChiliDawg]

CD. How do you dispose of the bullet jackets? Most jkts are at least 80% copper.
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My understanding is that any scraps left after smelting is sold to the scrap yard.

 

[yomomma]

My understanding is that any scraps left after smelting is sold to the scrap yard.

Some places will buy it, others won't. I throw mine out

 

[boxhitch]

Boat Yards, there are many broken dreams with lead keels....
Leg work guys, leg work.
Rob

derelicts are polluting the Fraser, one could easily go missing , below or across the water

 

[Raton57]

Took me a while but helped a fellow load a bunch of scarp in his truck he bought at auction and he has a scrap yard and turned out he has tons of different lead in stock. So am set for life now. Difficult trying to find lead here due to language and maybe one in a million people can understand casting bullets with lead . Plus the language .