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Arrrgh. How do you guys get these great prices on lead?
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It's called scrounging, an ancient and honored tradition. I've never bought lead, but I do buy tires. When I go in to the store to buy tires, I take a bucket with me and try to talk the guy out of a bucket of wheelweights. Hey, I'm buying tires, and I cast my own bullets, how about throwing in a bucket of lead?
I've used roofing lead, old lead pipes, ship ballast, lead from X-ray rooms. You just gotta keep your eyes open and your head in the game. If you see lead, try and scrounge it. I may have to pay for lead next year, but so far I've never had to buy any lead.
I studied cost accounting while I was in college and I know that nothing is free, but I'm not going to assign opportunity cost to my hobby. Plus, my equipment is old enough that I would have depreciated it to zero several years ago.