Where are you casters getting your lead?

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I still have about 750 - 1000 lbs of wheel weights when I had a good deal at the local tire dealer. But that will eventually dwindle. So, wondering what other places to get suitable lead? Don't mind paying if it's reasonable....thanks!

Try aircraft companies. They stack lead in the nose of aircraft when working on them. Sometimes they want to get rid of plates that won't stack anymore.
 
On cast boolits there is a lady that sells range lead delivered to your house in a priority mail box. She has given upon wheel weights due to the scarcity of lead in them. She goes by "the captain" I have bought from her in the past, and I leave a two wheeler out for the postman and let him know a heavy pkg is coming. She puts 50 lbs in a medium flat rate box.

It is processed and ready to cast with.
 
I still have about 750 - 1000 lbs of wheel weights when I had a good deal at the local tire dealer. But that will eventually dwindle. So, wondering what other places to get suitable lead? Don't mind paying if it's reasonable....thanks!
I have a Doe Run secondary smelter a few miles from my house, so once in a while I will run up there for a string of certified bullet metal. Saving on shipping makes a huge difference, and they are such nice people. I think I paid $1.60 a pound last time. I also have bullets that were given to me that are 100% unusable for me, so they go in the lead pot - the melting lube makes a good flux, but the smoke can get a little out of control.
 
I buy lead and tin from suppliers. Roto Metals is one. This way I get repeatable alloys. Wheel weight are an unknown alloy that you may or may not be able to replicate again.

Kevin
 
I also buy my lead for casting. I used to mine berms and got wheel weights, but I do not access to those facilities any more and wheel weights are getting hard to find.

I do not cast a large number of bullets, certain ones for particular uses and bullet styles not easily found on the commercial market . I like having casting equipment on hand incase of shortages like we saw around 2012-2016.
 
Sure appreciate the replies guys! double bogey: I just joined cast boolits so I'll look her up. I don't cast too many either, mainly for my old military rifles and buy already cast from various companies. I guess I missed a great chance long time ago when I was RO at the local club, I had access to a tractor which I used to cut the grass on the ranges, could have easily dug the berms for lead. Rotometals is just a few miles from me, so that's another possibility. Buying or having shipped is probably the best way for me, getting up in years and digging and heavy lifting has left me.
 
Wheel weights because Daddy works in the automotive business. He gets the wheel weights from the dealership for free and traded a boy who owns the muffler shop a 15 pack of Keystone light for 2 overflowing 5 gallon buckets of wheel weights.
 
It's nothing to get 300+#'s of berm lead a year and turn it into bullets. Free lead/free bullets

It's only 8/9bhn but when pc'd (powder coated) any caliber shoots bugholes with loads +/- 25,000psi. After that it's alloy time with mono-type.
 
I still have sheets that I got from my neighbor when he remodeled part of a local hospital, I ask for some for fishing weights and he brought truckloads, we made weights in a homemade mold, now I cast bp slugs and 405gr for 45-70. I have enough of each to last a while and still have multiple sheets, they soft I feel when I pass my daughter will say "what the heck is that"
 
After using wheel weights for 40 something years I have to disagree. I have found them to be very consistent. They are getting to be harder to find.
For handgun cartridges, maybe. For long range rifle cartridges, I prefer an alloy I can duplicate. Come to think of it I like a repeatable alloy for long range revolver cartridges also.

Over the years the recipe for wheel weights has varied a lot. For my use hey do not work.

Kevin
 
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