A Bucket of lead for $20.

[Foto Joe]

Well that kind of messes up my thoughts of scrounging range lead while I'm down here in AZ. I've had really good luck with clip on wheel weights and just using them straight. I'm not inclined to have to alloy range lead just so I can use it.

I stopped by the one and only indoor range here last week and inquired about picking up some of his range lead and the owner told me that there's a lot of non-lead stuff in there and using it for casting would more than likely irritate me so I was thinking of scrounging from the outdoor range instead. Apparently AZ is close enough to CA (I'm in AZ right now) that non-lead projectiles are quite common around here.

 

[44 Dave]

My oldest son is a union plumber on large commercial jobs. On ocassion he gives my lead ingots that are cast into rounds connected together with a lead carring handle. I assume it is pure lead and set it aside for C&B bullets and balls. My center fires are all range recycle and or telco lead.

Anyone know if the plumbers lead is indeed pure.

Plumbers lead, used for calked iron pipe joints, is soft lead and the best stuff for c&b pistols.

 

[44 Dave]

I smelted the salvaged lead today, got 61 1/2 lbs. of clean pure lead.
This took less than an hour using my plumbers pot and furnace!

 

[bonza]

No reason alloyed lead cannot be used for patched round balls in rifle & pistol, bit tough on C&B revolvers though.....stick with soft lead for those.