Lead Sinkers

[springfield art]

A small auction I attend frequently has a bunch of lead sinkers, seem to be nice soft "score it with fingernail" ones. Various sizes, but must be at least 15 or more lbs. It's a low-bidding auction, I should be able to score them (no pun intended!) for a small amt. tonight. My local club had forbidden shooting smooth-bore on the black powder range, but the new mgmt. allows it along with percussion pistol, just must keep it to 5 rounds in the cylinder. The previous mgmt. had oversight problems, people took money, paid no taxes, lost tax numbers, etc., the new mgmt. has turned it around. I have a newer casting pot, I think it's a Lyman.

 

[Edm]

Why could you not shoot a smoothbore?

 

[oldwood]

Sounds like you should buy this 15 lb.s lead , fire up the pot , and git to it.

 

[BackDraft]

Why could you not shoot a smoothbore?

What he said…

 

[Kansas Jake]

Don’t just shoot muzzleloaders, go fishing too.

 

[oldwood]

Still have a 50+ yr old Brown Bess that's never had a fishing sinker shot from it. HUMMM......Another experiment.

 

[kyron4]

For round balls , fishing weights will be fine even if slightly less than 100% pure lead.

What's up with the smoothbore ban ?

 

[54ball]

A small auction I attend frequently has a bunch of lead sinkers, seem to be nice soft "score it with fingernail" ones. Various sizes, but must be at least 15 or more lbs. It's a low-bidding auction, I should be able to score them (no pun intended!) for a small amt. tonight. My local club had forbidden shooting smooth-bore on the black powder range, but the new mgmt. allows it along with percussion pistol, just must keep it to 5 rounds in the cylinder. The previous mgmt. had oversight problems, people took money, paid no taxes, lost tax numbers, etc., the new mgmt. has turned it around. I have a newer casting pot, I think it's a Lyman.

For generations locals mostly kids, would scour the site of the Fort Mims Massacre for lead ball and shot to make fishing sinkers.

 

[springfield art]

Ouch! All those historic items gone to the fishes! I'll let y'all later today if I got the sinkers or not; left an absentee bid as I didn't want to sit around all evening for one item.

 

[springfield art]

OK, I got the lead sinkers at auction and picked them up today. There are 25 lbs. of ass't. size sinkers, for just over 31 bucks with tax & fee. Included was a nice Craftsman brand tool bag for holding tools and such. Not bad, and I can make some "ingots" in the Lyman ingot molds.