Lead, think about this next time you shoot!

[sussexmuzllodr]

So, due to environmental concerns we ship materials out to Countries with no Environmental concerns to be produced and returned to us. What a think tank that came out of.....

 

[mushka]

Think tank.....I don't think anybody here has accused American politicians of being smart. Maybe devious.

 

[Packrat]

The salt mines under Lake Erie are very similar,

 

[Dude]

Thanks for that deerstalkert! I had no idea how much was involved obtaining Galena - 3,000 lbs of ore for 100 lbs of lead. What a process!

And, yeah, those caverns are something else!

 

[mhb]

And when I was way younger I remember my tooth paste came in (LEAD) tubes , still here and still handling lead !/Ed

I remember those metal tubes, too, but they were made of tin, not lead...

mhb - MIke

 

[eggwelder]

I remember those metal tubes, too, but they were made of tin, not lead...

mhb - MIke

I remember my first lead i played with as a child came from the seals on bottles of Maderas wine. My dad served that a lot, and he gave it to me to make slingshot pellets. I used to carry them in my cheek when out using them.

 

[pmccoywss]

I guess all the scrap lead is sent out of country to be refined and imported back in.

Except the many pounds (tons) of scrap being recycled by all of us (and unmentionable cast boolit shooters). All my wife's stained glass scrap goes downrange.

 

[Crooked Creek]

I have heard that the lead/cobalt mine in Fredericktown MO is being worked now. I found an older article on it.

“Cobalt Mine” in Fredericktown, Missouri, Is Focus of EPA Administrator and Rep. Jason Smith Recognition Event

 

[deerstalkert]

Except the many pounds (tons) of scrap being recycled by all of us (and unmentionable cast boolit shooters). All my wife's stained glass scrap goes downrange.

My wife is starting to worry that our place will be classed as a toxic hazard. i have been going to build a sand bunker for reclamation for years, but the frost heaves pop the stuff up in the spring , making it easy to just go out and "Graze" for the lead! picked up 100 RB of various size Sunday!
guess i have my own lead mine.

 

[jimhallam]

And when I was way younger I remember my tooth paste came in (LEAD) tubes , still here and still handling lead !/Ed

No -- - but even MORE useful was that they were made of TIN, which was very useful for hardening bullets ;-) Now, of course, they are plastic so get dumped to pollute the world ;-(

 

[deerstalkert]

Sheffield got the idea for the tube from his son, who had traveled to Paris and saw artists using oil paint from metal tubes. The first toothpaste tubes were made of tin and lead, and remained basically the same until a metal shortage during World War II. The War Production Board restricted consumer use of many types of metal, including tin, lead and aluminum, creating a potential crisis in the toothpaste tube industry.

 

[frankie]

video of the production of lead. I found it interesting. ymmv

Great video. AND to think they did all this so I can shot my lead balls.

 

[11Bravo]

When I was an apprentice Steamfitter in the early 70s all jobs had plumbers melting lead for pouring joints on large soil pipes. I made more decoy anchors than I could use using beer cans (which were numerous) and a piece of their brazing wire for the loop. I still have a few 5# ingots after all these years. Great video, but I know in 1720 I would think how the lead was mined and smelted would be different. Or was lead found ready to melt and cast RBs?

 

[deerstalkert]

When I was an apprentice Steamfitter in the early 70s all jobs had plumbers melting lead for pouring joints on large soil pipes. I made more decoy anchors than I could use using beer cans (which were numerous) and a piece of their brazing wire for the loop. I still have a few 5# ingots after all these years. Great video, but I know in 1720 I would think how the lead was mined and smelted would be different. Or was lead found ready to melt and cast RBs?

my first job "helping my father was packing joints with okum (sp) while my father melted the led with a gasoline (contained lead) pot furnace!
child protective services would blow a seal , if they caught someone abusing a child like that today!
if it shortened my life i Aint noticed! after all memories are our life right?

 

[Joe B.]

wonder how many of those guys made it to 60?

 

[Jason60chev]

Liberals want to get rid of all traces of a material that is a naturally occurring element, in the earth.

I remember in the movie, Sgt York, during the shooting contest for the beef critter, the prizes fro the top 5 place shooters was the 2 front quarters, the two hind quarters and the 5th man got to dig the lead out of the tree.

 

[gunpa]

Well I have to admit to being old because the fillings I got in my teeth as a kid were removed and replaced when I got older because they had lead in them. I'm gonna have to build a bullet trap so I can recycle!

 

[CookedOff]

Liberals want to get rid of all traces of a material that is a naturally occurring element, in the earth.

So you want to put lead back in gasoline or what. Cause if you don't then you are a liberal too.

 

[Dude]

So you want to put lead back in gasoline or what. Cause if you don't then you are a liberal too.

Aw, come on Cooked. Let's cut out the political nonsense!

 

[deerstalkert]

Aw, come on Cooked. Let's cut out the political nonsense!

Amen!