price check on raw lead

Discussion in 'Reloading Bench' started by bobski, Dec 13, 2021.

  1. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    if I go into a shop to buy lead ingots these days, whats the going rate?
     
  2. Sgoose

    Sgoose Mega Poster Founding Member

    Today price for lead is .83 per pound. Bobski just ask Google.
    Sgoose
     
  3. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    it changes daily. local scrap yard was 45 cents yesterday. but gun shops don't change as fast. just curious what a buyer who doesn't follow the stock market pays.
     
  4. rrisum

    rrisum Mega Poster

    Todays price on iscrap-app is 22 cent # on wheel weights --40 cents # on lead shot --51 cents # yard price -Our yard smells and will mix whatever antimony rate you want - still waiting on that price.
     
  5. Cavscout107

    Cavscout107 Retired Army

    It would be a lot cheaper if Obama's EPA did not shut down the last lead smelting plant in the US.....now we have to rely on China and India
     
  6. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    I have a fellow local who is offering me 1.00 a pound for good lead ingots, not wheel weights. should I jump on it?
     
  7. Pkotlost

    Pkotlost Member

    If they are fluxed and cleaned its a very fair price. depending on the hardness level its either a good price or great price.
     
  8. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    how low is he on his offer on average? its all clean.
     
  9. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    leads up to 1.50 a pound on the world market today.
     
  10. rrisum

    rrisum Mega Poster

    Scrap prices are down Compared to my last post ---current iscrap-app price --2-17-2020 - that's what my local yard uses for scrap price, are down 10% from my last post on wheel weights and scrap shot - 90 days ago --$0.50 wheel weights -- $0.20 scrap shot
     
  11. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    just sold soft lead . got 2.00 a pound.
     
  12. Tsphens

    Tsphens Active Member

    Prices are not stable at the moment.
     
  13. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    a year has gone by since i posted this. how are prices overall now? up? down?
     
  14. Macdaddy

    Macdaddy Mega Poster

    We held off on selling our take of the lead mining last fall. We have about 60,000 lbs we could sell. We sell quite a bit to the reloading shooters for $1/lb. It would be nice to sell it in one shot. Any takers?
     
  15. THEUNLOADER

    THEUNLOADER Mega Poster Founding Member

    no phone numbers....MOD
     
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  16. bobski

    bobski USN Retired Range Owner

    I know wheel weights are mixed now. most are zinc. a lot of magnum shooters like zinc.
    got any clue on a 5 gal bucket of mixed zinc/lead wheel weights go for per lb?