How are your lead reserves?

[yomomma]

This section us kinda dull lately, so why not a "how much lead do you have?" thread.

I just recently liquidated a whole bunch of pure lead to fund the purchase of more lead. He he he. Right now I need the harder lead. Might get into powder coating this winter

I have a cabinet full of lead, tin,babbit, pewter and solder which I have not been able to get into. I also have about 8 mason jars full of bullets.

Besides all this I have 320 lbs of ingots under my bench and about 400 lbs of sorted ww with one more bucket to pick up tomorrow.

So, how are the rest of the lead heads doing?

 

[Spawn-Inc]

maybe 450lbs? 10lbs of 95/5 solder and 20lbs of linotype.

 

[Alberta Woodsman]

Few Hundred lbs of bullets, 250lbs of homemade lead shot, 300-400lbs ww ingots. Bout 75lbs of pure lead.

 

[Canadian_Zuk]

I have two 5 gallon pails of WW to be smelted and maybe 300# of WW ingots ready for casting and I'm sitting on 100-120# of Lynotype (=hoarder). No pure lead on hand right now, I traded what I had for more Lynotype.

 

[Bassmaster]

~200 lbs of ww ingots
~150 lbs of raw ww
~20 lbs lino
~40 pure Pb
~20 lbs cast projectiles in various stages of lube/PC/GC

 

[f55]

60lbs ww ingots
5500 9mm 124gr bullets from ww (97Ibs)
25lbs lead shot

 

[legi0n]

maybe 150lbs of lead but only 50lbs are soft lead, the rest is 20bhn lead I lucked out in a transaction.
2 lbs of pure tin accompanying it.

 

[vviking]

700# raw WW.
300# WW ingot.
150# pure soft ingot.
30# tin.
120# hard shot.
200# various cast boolets.

1500#'s worth or thereabouts.

Need more. ...

 

[yomomma]

I have two regular suppliers which should work out to about 1000lbs a year of unprocessed wheel weights.

 

[Silfield]

I have a shade over 900lbs of pure lead atm and approx 110lbs of pewter but am always on the lookout for the next batch. The ironic thing is that most of my lead stash came from when they restored the local church roof! A quiet word in the vicars ear (he is a shooter) and a donation to the church restoration fund and it was mine.

 

[Andy]

~3600 lbs of rendered wheeleight
~600 lbs of pure lead
~120 lbs of Linotype
~50 lbs tin
Two buckets of raw wheelweight.

 

[infideleggwelder]

75 lbs all in, 45 of that pure, the rest ww and harder. but I've just started

 

[bcnorth]

45gal drum or ww ( not sure of the weight wouldn't dare even quess)
100 in ingots
roughly 3000 cast at any time.

 

[ruffbird]

I started collecting about a year ago, so not a lot....
280 lbs of ingot. (wheelweights)
25 lbs pure lead
A bucket full of wheelweights. (not sorted yet)
1 lb of pewter.

5000-6000 cast bullets.

 

[grumpyold]

A bucket of ww.
Around 60# of ingots ww.
The rest is stored in the tire shop my friend manages.

 

[a j cave]

500s pure 100 ww 50lbs of assorted cast bullets. ( my hunting partner has over a ton- I'm not worried) I have about 20-30 lbs of 45 & 50 cal round balls too.

 

[ilikeoldguns]

I just have a little bit, maybe 20 pounds. Where are good places to pick this stuff up?

 

[yomomma]

Anywhere you can

 

[soulchaser]

Just starting out accumulating lead.

Only got 65lbs of WW ingots.

 

[yomomma]

Had a pleasant surprise, my guy had 3 buckets waiting for me.