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 07-09-2007, 04:06 PM | #1 | Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 5 |  Source of Lead
Does anyone know of a good place to get ammunition grade lead in order to create lead balls out of it for shooting? | 
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| 07-09-2007, 07:53 PM | #2 | Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Austin, Texas, by God!! Posts: 6,061 | Lead
I presume you are referring to soft lead for muzzle loading bullets. IMHO wheel weights are too hard for that application. You need soft/virgin lead. The best source is pipe jackets. The metal thingies that go around the vent pipes that protrude from your roof. These are virgin lead. Find a roofer in your area. He likely gets a few each week from re-roof jobs. You also might check with the local metal recycling center. They may buy those jackets from the roofer and sell to you. Should not be very expensive. | |
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| 06-07-2010, 07:50 PM | #3 | Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 35 | to lead or not to lead
I have found fishing weights work pretty good but if you are lucky enough to have a good small muzzle loading shop near you they get lead by bulk and you can gret it fairly cheap those you sometimes need to add a bit of tin as you dont really want your lead to soft as it can floul a barrel a bit faster and it can even break aprart before impact if it is to soft and you use a heavy powder charge....... Now I aint no expert at this but I have been muzzle loading for aprox 25 years.......  | |
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| 06-09-2010, 06:49 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Heidelberg, MS Posts: 1,133 |
Stick on wheel weights are 99.5% pure lead with a BHN of 6.(pure lead is 5) Close enough you can't tell the difference and neither can your muzzleoader. Clip on weights are too hard | |
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| 06-09-2010, 07:23 AM | #5 | Aspiring Mall Ninja Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Here in the holler.... Posts: 2,230 Liked 1 Times on 1 Posts
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Make sure if you do use wheel weights that they are lead. Some are zinc. __________________ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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| 06-09-2010, 04:07 PM | #6 | Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Austin, Texas, by God!! Posts: 6,061 |
The Zinc weights melt at significantly higher temp than lead or lead alloy. I don't worry too much about them because they will simpy float on top of the molten lead to be skimmed off. As far as stick on weights, I have noticed a huge disparity in the hardness of these weights. The ones that are thin and segmented seem to be the purest lead. I have found others that are nearly as hard as clip on weights. I segregate and melt them seperately. The fluxed ingots get marked with a sharpie so I can make pretty repeatable alloys.
Typical muzzle loader bullets are 20-1 alloy of lead to tin. Tin can be obtained at plumbing supply stores in the form of 1lb 50/50 solder bars. Two bars and 19 lbs of virgin lead is perfect. __________________
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| 06-09-2010, 04:23 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Clifton, Colorado Posts: 1,476 |
The recycling center in my area sells pure lead and lead alloys for pretty cheap. Something like $.50 a pound if I remember correctly. They also sell once fired brass for around a dollar a pound. You have to sort throught the brass yourself. But I bought a bunch of 38 special, 30-06 and some 308 win for almost nothing. I think I paid around $1.50 for a bag full. __________________
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| 06-13-2010, 05:36 PM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Portsmouth, Ohio Posts: 706 |
My family and I are currently taking care of buisness in the basement. We found a lot of lead pipe, a whole lot. It is also very soft for some reason.... __________________
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| 06-13-2010, 09:26 PM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ohio, Ohio Posts: 10,953 |
While there is good info here, I hope that nobody thinks they are helping the OP's question. The question is less than a month away from being 3 years old... 
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| 06-13-2010, 10:36 PM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Clifton, Colorado Posts: 1,476 |
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Oops. Uh, I ...nevermind. __________________
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