Posted on 12/01/2013 9:49:24 PM PST by servo1969
If you are a reloader... Start buying used car batteries....
“Unfortunately car batteries contain mostly lead oxides”
Nope, not true. No lead oxides... Lead sulfates. The plates in a lead acid battery are a lead grid filled with sponge lead. The sulfur goes between lead sulphate and sulfuric acid, depending on the charge level.
Take one apart and melt it down. You get most off the weight as lead...
There is plenty of lead in Mexico.
We haven’t had smelters in thew USA for decades
BPUSA makes good lead
WWW.AEROSTAROUTDOORS.COM
“What is it and where did he get it? Got some bunnies that could, uh, benefit from something like that. If they ain’t paying for the grass, they don’t get to munch on it.”
Do a Google search for battery powered air soft guns. You can buy them at walmart. I think he bought his online though..
I was surprised when I tried it. It will seriously hurt you... It’s not a toy.
Mexico is a large producer of lead.
The highly progressive state of California recently passed a law that lead ammo is banned for sporting use.
No they didn't, it's a ban on hunting use (phased). While that still bugs me, it pisses me off that our side uses 'Rat style "fudge factor" reporting to hype subjects too because instead of just getting some straight dope, you have to do a bunch of research legwork yourself so you don't look like an idiot if you want to mention or bring the topic up further...
Apparently Baschieri & Pellagri are no longer producing Lead shot.
Oh well that just makes the stuff I have more desirable.
I have plenty of factory made ammo. I also have 20 lb of lead, a smelter, bullet molds, brass, primers, and 2 reloading presses.
I collect tire balancing weights. If you see a car on the highway with a bouncing tire or two. Think of Conspiracy Guy.
Tire weights.
I’m thinking Col. Allen West will be a very good Cabinet Secretary of the DoD. Luv the way this guy thinks and he doesn’t pander to anyone.
We just need Conservatives to control the WH, Senate and House. That dream is growing as more and more States are filling their elected positions with GOPs who are right of center at lower levels like City Councils, Mayors, State Legislatures, etc.
Back to topic... junk yards must be full of old cars with lead balance weights on wheels. What about all of the lead weights used by fishermen and duck hunters (for their decoys)? ....Old houses in the 1940s and earlier used lead weights on each side of each window (I grew up in one built in ‘43). ...........Just sayin’ that there are many sources of lead out there, if a person thinks about it...
I don’t see lead availability drying up.
The future Conservative GOP control of Congress should ABOLISH the EPA and Energy depts. for their wasteful spending of taxpayers’ dollars on frivolous projects and regulations. That would also include stoppage of using food (corn) to produce the ridiculous Ethanol and the requirement for low sulfur diesel fuel; both of which are damaging autos, semis and small gas engines.
Sorry for the long rant but thoughts just kept coming as I was typing. I know I got off topic inre LEAD, but the thread just caused me to think about bad regulations.
This shutdown of bullet production is just the kind of thing that RINOs DON’T reverse when they take office.
If we ever have another President, and if it’s a Republican, watch to see if he allows lead smelting and ammo production to resume in the U.S.
Almost all the sash weights I have seen were cast iron, not lead. (Not saying they couldn't be lead, just that I haven't seen any--and my house is 101.)
Make no mistake, banning lead bullets is definitely an attempt to keep people from having ammo but it hasn't worked and won't work.
Smelting lead is much different than recovering lead. Recovering lead will give the manufacturers all they need. Furthermore, there is still a wide-open marketplace in raw metals, and lead has many uses. Lots of Chinese imports still.
Reclaimed Lead Shot - Washed and Re-Graphited (2-25) Bags 50 Pounds FREE Freight.$89.99
Magnum Lead Shot #7.5 50 lbs Freight Included. $99.99
http://www.rotometals.com/Lead-Shot-s/64.htm
Not quite:
The current bullet has a core of very tightly packed lead pellets.
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