"Atta boy, keep scrounging. It's not too late."
Yeah, hit my local gun shop yesterday on my way home here in Lancaster, Kommiefornia. They had a huge stack of ingots labeled "Lead, $2". They were square ingots so no telling what mold they used, weighed in at 2 pounds each.
I knew wifey would be mad if I bought them all so I bought 16 of them at two bucks each. A buck a pound wasn't too bad if you been looking on fleabay.
As for the 50/50 bars, I found them in my rollaway. Not sure where I got them but they jumped out and bit me when I was looking for something else. I just thought those long skinny bars were for the old school body work. They do in fact say 50/50 molded into the top.
Sorry, I'm new to all this . . . I have the Lee bottom pour 10# pot.
Mike
You bet a buck a pound isn't bad in ingot form. Now quick melt one up and see if it'll cast a bullet. Just to make sure it doesn't have zinc in it. Empty out the change jar and go pick up the rest if it's good. Especially where you live.
And just keep asking about lead or solder whenever you can work it into a conversation where it makes sense. Net weights, fishing sinkers, duck decoy anchors, fishing lead head jigs, renovation work at hospitals, chiropractic offices, veterinary clinics, old dental offices, (where ever there might be x-ray machines), roof flashing, shower pans, lead plumbing joints, lead water pipe, sail boat keels, counter weights. Every so often someone will ask me, "You still lookin' for lead?" My answer is always, Yeah, why?" Back in Green Bay my dentist had boxes of old dental x-ray tabs they had shoved in a closet because they didn't want to pay to dispose of them. Duke to the rescue. A stained glass window restoration business had those big 55 gallon paper drums full of the cames from a big Catholic church. The windows were from Innsbruck made in 1893. Once again, happy to help with disposal.
A kid that I had over to help set targets at a silhouette match told his Dad I made bullets. He stopped over and dropped off 300# stuck to drywall from a clinic rehab. Said it was too bad, if he'd have known earlier I could have had a ton. Ice fishing with a guy one day. Told him I made my own jigs. He says, "Want some lead?" 400# of bent up lead tubing or something from where he worked, free. I cut it in 5" pieces with my log splitter.
Lead and solder is still out there, we just need to sniff a little harder, dig a little deeper and it turns up.
