Jumping on things when available.

[Flintlock]

I ran through a somewhat local Fleet Farm store and found German Dynamit Nobal #11 caps for $4.95 per tin (100 per tin) so I grabbed 8 tins of them. Not really into caplocks but I have 5 of them so. Feeling pretty good about being able to shoot this spring we then stopped at a recycling plant and I left with 94 pounds of soft sheet lead and some lead pipe for 90 cents a pound. I figure better get on it while it's still available. We used pine logs cut into firewood length pieces stacked three rows deep 5 feet high and 12 feet long with a double row of horizontal logs behind them. We can recover or lead when logs get too shot up and restack the pile with new logs.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I always try to shoot into a "recoverable" back stop whenever possible. Lead is hard come by and getting harder to get all of the time. I usually use a large cardboard box filled with wet newspaper or saw dust.

 

[Flintlock]

Recovered lead adds up fast, I have a bucket in the tack room of roundball and pistol lead to sort through, last time I checked there was roughly 128lbs. of it. Will add a bunch more this spring if I restack the front row.

 

[SDSmlf]

Recovered lead adds up fast, I have a bucket in the tack room of roundball and pistol lead to sort through, last time I checked there was roughly 128lbs. of it. Will add a bunch more this spring if I restack the front row.

As long as you know what was shot on the range. Remember in my younger days learning that range lead was anything but pure lead, at least where I was ‘mining’.

 

[Flintlock]

As long as you know what was shot on the range. Remember in my younger days learning that range lead was anything but pure lead, at least where I was ‘mining’.

Pretty easy to tell it apart, especially when shot into softer woods like pine. Anything I can't tell was a muzzleloader ball can get tossed back into the can for pistol-carbine bullets, pure lead balls go back into the pot to be mixed with newer pure lead and of coarse any jacketed stuff gets thrown into the pistol bucket.

 

[Ames]

Good ideas. Grab it where you find it and hold onto it. I must be up to 9 tins of caps for my one cap gun so I'll leave the rest for the next guy.
My backstop is 30"x 45", 4 layers of P.T. 2x's, roundball only. As the first two layers get too shot up I unscrew the boards one layer at a time and then replace them. All the lead just falls out of the first two layers. A screwdriver digs anything out of the third layer. Fourth layer remains untouched. Regular 2X's are too soft but that SYP in P.T. is hard stuff!

 

[poofman]

When i worked for ol' Ma Bell i used the lead sheathed cable to cast max using their lead furnaces,laddle ,etc. unlimited supplies .It was great

 

[user 48679]

A friend of mine is a Verizon lineman retiree, and he was able to stash away several hundred pounds of that lead sheathing (melted down to ingots).

I remember him melting the sheathing in an old/huge upright plumber's gas furnace he got somewhere.

He was looking ahead to his retirement, keeps the stash in his garage, and shoots a dozen different C&B revolvers.

 

[poofman]

I know where he got the furnace ,from the splicing side we used them to melt lead to wipe the joints on the lead sleeving that housed the splices. retired from verizon 2020