Wheel Weight Price?
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Ian
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Portable trap made from a tire and 12" round AR-500 gong chained inside, mudflap pieces cut and bolted inside front and back. It's great for shooting groups from the bench and recovering the bullet dust, but too small for offhand shooting at long distance.
Back side with flap removed:
Current iteration of my 100-yard bullet trap will be a sand-filled crib with roof over it:
The crib enables bullets to be recovered whole and also the use of reactive, self-healing polymer targets (or soda cans, etc) for informal shooting as well as paper targets for load development.
Back side with flap removed:
Current iteration of my 100-yard bullet trap will be a sand-filled crib with roof over it:
The crib enables bullets to be recovered whole and also the use of reactive, self-healing polymer targets (or soda cans, etc) for informal shooting as well as paper targets for load development.
Mitty38
Well-Known Member
Now that I have developed a lead load the cost of shooting the AR has gone down. That and my lead consumption since I am short on pistol primers.
There is a lot of 61 grain bullets in a pound of lead. Tried casting a 20 lb pot last week When I stopped, still drained 6 pound of lead in ingot back out of the pot. Wore me out. Ended up with 1200 good 223 bullets and 100 of your bore riders I cast for a friend. That is a lot of pew pew. For a little lead.
Only problem Is I can never hardly find them in the bank, when done, so I just have to take other people's pistol lead to make up the difference.wish ai Had a set up like Ian for that. But I do not have a place of my own to shoot. And just do not have the ability to store that at the moment.
Just turned down a couple free buckets of wheel weights, let them go to someone else. Figured I have a couple good sources and just did not want to be gready.
There is a lot of 61 grain bullets in a pound of lead. Tried casting a 20 lb pot last week When I stopped, still drained 6 pound of lead in ingot back out of the pot. Wore me out. Ended up with 1200 good 223 bullets and 100 of your bore riders I cast for a friend. That is a lot of pew pew. For a little lead.
Only problem Is I can never hardly find them in the bank, when done, so I just have to take other people's pistol lead to make up the difference.wish ai Had a set up like Ian for that. But I do not have a place of my own to shoot. And just do not have the ability to store that at the moment.
Just turned down a couple free buckets of wheel weights, let them go to someone else. Figured I have a couple good sources and just did not want to be gready.
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I’ve been contemplating a literal indoor type trap to use for my handgun stuff. A snail design of some sort, just haven’t sat down and tried to draw it up, it would also be fairly expensive think.
Ian that rubber flap, does it self heal pretty well. I have thought about using that for the front of a sand box bullet trap too. They sell a 5/8 thick rubber mat at tractor aioli I’ve thought about trying.
It doesn’t take long to go through pounds of lead at 405 grains a boom. Most of mine is in my 100 yard berm. Several years from now I’ll dig it up and screen it if need be. I’m fixin to have to add more dirt to my berm it’s been getting eroded pretty bad from all the 100 yard shooting. Added another 150 rounds to it today.
Ian that rubber flap, does it self heal pretty well. I have thought about using that for the front of a sand box bullet trap too. They sell a 5/8 thick rubber mat at tractor aioli I’ve thought about trying.
It doesn’t take long to go through pounds of lead at 405 grains a boom. Most of mine is in my 100 yard berm. Several years from now I’ll dig it up and screen it if need be. I’m fixin to have to add more dirt to my berm it’s been getting eroded pretty bad from all the 100 yard shooting. Added another 150 rounds to it today.
Ian
Notorious member
Nothing really holds back sand for long except its natural slump. The mud flap rubber self heals for several hundred rounds but if you shoot tight clusters it gives up big holes pretty quickly. I had to replace it twice already just to keep the lead splash from blowing out my target paper that I pin directly to the front flap.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Simple pile of reclaimed river sand when the White river over flowed it's banks,10+ years ago. My septic system installer provided it along with the large pile of clay soil behind to contain it. I used a left over 2 x 12 piece of cedar to hold back the front. I have lost very little, over the years. I use a sifter box made from a old wooden Pepsi Cola case and hardware cloth. Sift over a wheel barrow for less strain on back.
About a season's worth of shooting.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
You were right, looks like the king of the mountain pile Duke and I saw.
Rally
NC Minnesota
My first question to the friend with the buckets of weights would be “ how long have you had the weights”. If the friend had a tire shop, it would take several years to come up with five buckets of weights, unless it was a high volume shop. Depending on where you live, the weights could be years old, and a high percentage lead.
JonB,
Two weeks ago I was talking to one of our maintenance supervisors at work, who is a snare customer of mine. He bought his house 7 years ago,which came with a 25 hp JD tractor and a counter weight box that attached to the rear of the tractor for plowing. The former owner owned a tire shop in Hibbing,Mn. Guess what was in that box for weight? Yep, wheel weights. Five buckets, mostly half full or better. Ended up with 283 ingots of coww, and only 11 ingots of soww. The best part is there was 21 lbs of steel weights and not a single piece of zinc! I do the pinch test on every weight with a pair of 10” lineman pliers. There were quite a few small weights in the buckets, and smelting ended up with almost a full five gallon bucket of clips. Cost me two dozen coyote snares. Never know what you can find out there.
JonB,
Two weeks ago I was talking to one of our maintenance supervisors at work, who is a snare customer of mine. He bought his house 7 years ago,which came with a 25 hp JD tractor and a counter weight box that attached to the rear of the tractor for plowing. The former owner owned a tire shop in Hibbing,Mn. Guess what was in that box for weight? Yep, wheel weights. Five buckets, mostly half full or better. Ended up with 283 ingots of coww, and only 11 ingots of soww. The best part is there was 21 lbs of steel weights and not a single piece of zinc! I do the pinch test on every weight with a pair of 10” lineman pliers. There were quite a few small weights in the buckets, and smelting ended up with almost a full five gallon bucket of clips. Cost me two dozen coyote snares. Never know what you can find out there.
Well in the midst of the last few weeks he sold the shop and is retiring so I haven’t even been back to see him, or the new owners. The buckets have been there for years I’m sure, but it’s honestly not worth the time there were quite a few zinc weights mixed in with the lead on the top, I may go talk to the new owners and say let me take them off your hands for 5 bucks a bucket and take the gamble. Otherwise they can sit there. I don’t have the time to fool with them any way. They would sit behind the shed for years before I would smelt them down. So it’s not worth the aggravation of hauling more crap to the house. I need to get rid of not drag up.
But that is a fine haul for sure. If it was all lead. That would be a different story.
But that is a fine haul for sure. If it was all lead. That would be a different story.
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Snakeoil
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I may be wrong about this, but a guy I shoot with told me that Obama made it illegal for scrap yards to sell scrap lead. I have not inquired locally. It may just be a NY thing. Of course, scrap yards do tend to live on the edge of the law so it may have had zero effect on them.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Don’t think so as there is an active resmelting Business in Puget sound. The only thing here is no wheel weights. They are also extracting tin and antimony for lead free solder.
Rally
NC Minnesota
I understand the not wanting the extra work of sorting, but occasionally a guy just falls into a good deal. This find just came up in a conversation and was a good deal for both of us.