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Lead scavenging to make bullets.

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Originally posted by: MrBond
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I don't like shooting lead bullets through my guns. I'll take FMJ or partially jacketed FTW!!! Lead is a bitch to clean out of your barrels.
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Dad and I shoot nothing but lead out of our 1911's and we've never had a problem. I run the boresnake through mine maybe once a month.

Dad has some friends who cast bullets and he buys them that way, but we've also got quite a stockpile of lead ingots as well. He gets wheel weights for free from our mechanic. You can't really reuse them anymore, so he tosses the old ones in a bucket and every now and then Dad goes and swaps buckets. He'll melt them down into ingots or occasionally cast bullets. Occasionally he'll mine the backstop at the range for lead, but wheel weights are a lot less work.

Dad recently had a custom blackpowder cartridge rifle made in .40-65, so he's been casting his own bullets for that. You don't really shoot a significant amount of them in a BPCR match, so in an afternoon of casting, you can make enough for several matches.
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Maybe I've just had some smokey cheap ammo. It always seems like a lot more work to clean my guns after shooting a couple hundred rounds of lead wadcutters though.
 
Originally posted by: randalee
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
And wearing a respirator...
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I'm SO glad everyone wants to take care of me. PLEASE SAVE ME FROM HURTING MYSELF! Problem with this country nowadays...
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There you go, flying off the handle again. It's a good thing you own guns...
 
Originally posted by: theknight571
Why are bullets made of lead... isn't there something else they can be made out of?

Just curious, thinking that after all these years they would have moved on to something besides lead.

Or is the idea that if you don't kill the target... it eventually suffers with lead poisioning. 🙂
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Depleted Uranium FTW.
 
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