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GroovyMike · February 9, 2012, 09:09 AM

The last couple posters have it exactly right. Chain stores will not sell to you. But if you build a friendship with a local garage they will take care of you. I get wheel weights for free from the garage that does all my auto repairs. This is great BUT the lead in teh wheel weight bucket is getting less and less thanks to the nanny state outlawing the use of lead wheel weights. My local salvage yard will sell me lead at 75 cents per pound. Good to know if I can't get it elsewhere. I just connected with a local plumber to buy 100 pounds of soft lead pipe at 50 cents per pound (and a few cast bullets for him). That should keep me in 9mm and muzzle loader balls for awhile but I think I am going to have to actually start buying shotgun shells instead of loading my own. The price of lead shot no longer makes it cheaper to load shotgun shells vs. buying them by the case.

I will be building a bullet trap for my back yard shooting range very soon.

February 9, 2012, 09:09 AM	#6
GroovyMike Member Join Date: January 20, 2006 Posts: 55	yep! The last couple posters have it exactly right. Chain stores will not sell to you. But if you build a friendship with a local garage they will take care of you. I get wheel weights for free from the garage that does all my auto repairs. This is great BUT the lead in teh wheel weight bucket is getting less and less thanks to the nanny state outlawing the use of lead wheel weights. My local salvage yard will sell me lead at 75 cents per pound. Good to know if I can't get it elsewhere. I just connected with a local plumber to buy 100 pounds of soft lead pipe at 50 cents per pound (and a few cast bullets for him). That should keep me in 9mm and muzzle loader balls for awhile but I think I am going to have to actually start buying shotgun shells instead of loading my own. The price of lead shot no longer makes it cheaper to load shotgun shells vs. buying them by the case. I will be building a bullet trap for my back yard shooting range very soon.