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Cowboy Recycling


Tom Bullweed

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10 minutes at the range to collect 15 pounds of bullets on the ground...

One hour to cast 200 bullets, like the 90 grain SWC tumble lube .32s from a Lee mold...

I have learned to cast bullets for .32 H&R Mag, .38 Special, .38/40, .44 Spec/Mag, .45 (ACP, CS and Colt), and .454 round ball for CnB pistolas.

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good job.  I've done some berm mining myself.  At my age and pay grade, I'm happy to swap sweat equity for cash.

 

I usually melt my recovery lead into ingots first to clean out all the trash.  Then into the casting pot.

 

nice fact is I like casting, powder coating and sizing along with reloading just about as much as shooting

 

 

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Warren, you are the real deal!  That is definitely old school cowboy casting!

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Ya know.  Cowboys are kinda hard to recycle.  Getting 'em to stand for being stuffed inna bucket is tough.  Most of them shoot well enough I really don't wanna try it.  Nope.  No way:rolleyes:

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I’ve been recycling some old plastic 10ga shotgun shells.  Does that count??

 

They were originally 2 7/8” Federal hulls that were roll crimped. Most were loaded with Black Powder and have been reloaded once or twice.  
 

I trimmed off the worst of the bad plastic and they wound up 2 5/8” long with a new roll crimp.


 

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I ended up saving nearly a hundred of ‘em!

 

 

 

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On 6/10/2024 at 4:07 PM, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

Ya know.  Cowboys are kinda hard to recycle.  Getting 'em to stand for being stuffed inna bucket is tough.  Most of them shoot well enough I really don't wanna try it.  Nope.  No way:rolleyes:

My recycling center won’t take them. They’re more trouble than they’re worth. 

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On 6/13/2024 at 1:32 PM, Nasty Newt # 7365 said:

My recycling center won’t take them. They’re more trouble than they’re worth. 

My wife tried to recycle me a couple times, but no one would take me!

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