Alert to Bullet Casters

They talk in that first article as if just picking up a wheel weight might cause harm to someone... Reality check please....
 
Well, we simply need.........

to have the highway prisoners go out and police all that nasty lead up(don't bother with the trash & such), and turn it in to the nearest sportsman's club, where it can be, environmentally and safely, transformed into other more desireable impliments and objets d'art!
And, if that isn't enough, the group in the No. 1 article should petition the epa to shut down any lead weight mfgr. who refuses to stop making tire weights for trucks, disguised as Polish Sausages!! That's obviously why the Deer an' Californicatin' Condors are eating them, they look like other tasty morsels alongside the road. Hell, a dead politician onside the road'd probably lay there for WEEKS without a Coyote or weasel botherin' to eat THEM, 'cause they SMELL so BAD!! Even Coyotes an' Weasels got SOME pride!! :D:rolleyes::rolleyes::D
 
So

If a Squirrel or Crow eats a 3" long, 2.75oz led wheel weight he will get sick. But if he eats a 3.25" long, 2.75oz zinc wheel weight he will be fine?
 
and on the other hand

Let's see, lead wheel weights that don't break are bad, energy saving (except you can't throw the bitches away, you have to drive in your Prius to a reclamation center when they die) florescent light bulbs with mercury inside and do break are good. Its a brave new world. Sheesh.
 
From what I've heard about San Franciso, there should be plenty of "fellas" to bend over and pick up those wheel weights... if you know what I mean. :eek: :D
 
They need a real job

These Environmental Nuts have to come up with these crazy ideas in order to earn their big government pay checks, that come from our tax dollars. :( And, what can we do about it ? Hope that we can vote in some one better next time.
 
I lucked into 20 pounds of lead from a shattered stained glass window many years ago. That was some nice metal for casting BP round ball.
Soft enough I figure it was almost pure lead. There was some sort of harder alloy at each join. Took awhile to get all the glass out of it.

Wheel weights seem to work fine for just about any bullet type. I've used them for BP round ball as well and while it might raise pressure the accuracy is much better than pure lead when used in the .36 Colt.

I've been considering trying the Zinc alloy "Kirksite" bullets. They weigh 2/3 what a lead bullet cast in the same mold would weigh and require no lubrication or gas checks. US Army tests indicated the Zinc bullet to be comparable to an FMJ bullet, and used them in testing armor plate.
It would allow light bullet high velocity loads in rifles not throated for short bullets. A mold that threw a 200 grain lead bullet would throw a 120 gr Kirksite bullet. Bearing surface and engraving would be much better for the weight.

They say firing Kirksite bullets will clean out old metal fouling deposits from previous use with jacketed bullets.

PS
I noticed that last site sells Cadmium. Cadmium gives off a highly toxic vapor when heated, welders have been killed when they welded materials coated with cadmium without knowing it. In one case a welder collapsed and died within minutes after working in a poorly ventilated area.
Two men I knew well died within months of each other several years after working in a poorly ventilated heat treatment room where wrenches coated with Cadmium had been reheat treated at a chain factory. I always suspected they's gotten heavy metal poisoning on the job by the way both became mentally unbalanced at practically the same time and died within months of each other of exactly the same type of cancer.
 
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OG, you're right about..........

the zinc clearing out the lead, ever hear of the Harvey "Prot-X Bore" bullet?? The mold took a zinc washer that when the pure lead was poured in, would form a rivet, keeping the two together. I had some, once, given me by a now-gone friend. They were a good handgun bullet. Very fast, very clean.
 
brian roberts said:
the zinc clearing out the lead, ever hear of the Harvey "Prot-X Bore" bullet?? The mold took a zinc washer that when the pure lead was poured in, would form a rivet, keeping the two together. I had some, once, given me by a now-gone friend. They were a good handgun bullet. Very fast, very clean.
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Something along those lines was issued at some point during the American Civil War to take the leading out of Rifled Musket bores.
The zinc washered rounds were used just like the regular rounds with one zinc fired for so many regular rounds.
 
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