Huh. Well, I thought you'd done a snail type trap. My bad, must have been someone else. It was a while back.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.
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Back side with flap removed:
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Current iteration of my 100-yard bullet trap will be a sand-filled crib with roof over it:
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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.
You were right, looks like the king of the mountain pile Duke and I saw.View attachment 23959
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.
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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.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.
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.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.