Probably Time to stock up

[gene_225]

Considering what seems to be on the way, it may be time to stock up on what you are short of. Just ordered a 12 ga slug mold. During most wars, ammo and components seem to be hard to come by as do some kinds of food stuffs, tires, fuel, etc.

[orerancher]

Lead, is gittin Spendy and Harder to come by also....

[Lloyd Smale]

i looked it up today. Lead is just over a buck a lb. About where its been for a while. Scap dealers buying price? 59 cents a lb. Go to you local scrap yard id bet theyd gladly sell you some for a buck a lb to avoid the cost of hauling it to the precessor which is very high with lead because of its weight. The real problem might come if this escalates far enough is youll be casting over a camp fire like mel gibson.

[orerancher]

i looked it up today. Lead is just over a buck a lb. About where its been for a while. Scap dealers buying price? 59 cents a lb. Go to you local scrap yard id bet theyd gladly sell you some for a buck a lb to avoid the cost of hauling it to the precessor which is very high with lead because of its weight. The real problem might come if this escalates far enough is youll be casting over a camp fire like mel gibson.

Wish We had a Local Scrap Yard.....Closest Place for Me to buy Alloy is Roto Metals.....

Which is Why I shoot 'Range Scrap'  I dig Outa My Berm and Sand Trap.....Pure Led to Lino and everything in between gets Remelted and Shot Again....been doin that for Years....

[Ranger99]

I've got a decent pile of ingots from
when I used to make big sinkers for
offshore fishing when we used to go
often, but not thousands, more like
hundreds of lbs.
I never started casting bullets because
I used to be able to buy way cheaper from
a local store way cheaper than investing
in the pots and lubrisizer, etc.
The people that owned the store also
have a commercial cast bullet operation,
so buying a few thousand from them
was more expedient for me. I've got
I don't know how many boxes here and
there stashed away. More than I have
cases to poke them into.
If I stay out of any neighborhood
firefights for a few years, I should have
enough to hold me until my number
is called
I have whittled my food down considerably
since the shortages started,  but then, that's
what it's for.

[mcbammer]

 I dont cast bullets myself ,  But I often think about a the amount  lead we used to shield us from the radiation when we pulled maintenance inside nuclear reactor containment vessels .  You bullet casters would be astonished and think you were in lead heaven  .

[Lloyd Smale]

thought about putting layer of lead over the loading room but found out id need at least 2 inches to be effective and started tapping on the calculator and that much lead would have the ceiling on the floor.