Well...Its about time

[CASPER-2]

said I was waiting till after my retirement to sit down and melt my lead
pre 2000 - I scrapped my lead and would put money to a hunt trip usually
I sold some of the better sinkers for a little more than melt value
I also was into shooting blackpowder and used some to cast musketballs
I also was heavy into saltwater fishing for awhile and bought saltwater sinker molds
and melted the older ones and cast new ones
Sooo...all you see here is not all ive found - probably would have double
since ive been hunting since 1975...most of these are post 2000
I know guys that throw their sinkers out farther, throw in trash, give them to fishermen where they
are at or leave them in a pile in fishing area for fishermen to grab
To me theyve always been another source of treasure.
Ive hunted with guys that have complained "crap!...another sinker!"
but to me when you find them - unless recently lost - that someone missed them (if theyre deep)
and there could be gold and other goodies there or that no ones been to that spot in awhile
or its virgin
So i will be starting to melt and cast into clean lead ingots and will try and get a little more than scrap
melt - sportsman clubs wil some times buy clean lead to cast bullets - if no sale then i'll
scrap

I can not even move this container - most of the other containers are like 30 to 50 lbs.

 

[CASPER-2]

Oh...I forgot
I also bought a dive weight mold pre 2000 and cast over a 100 lbs of weights
with lead i had found - saved myself some $$$ making my own
I made a few for other hunters too

 

[UnderMiner]

That's alot of lead, make sure the beams in your house are structurally sound in that area, or is that the basement floor?

 

[cudamark]

I've got a local guy who will give me $1 a pound for lead, so, once I get a 5 gallon bucket full, I give him a call. I've done that many times now. Doesn't take many lead targets to make a pound. Mostly fishing sinkers, but, I also find plumbing lead and automotive wheel weights too. Money in the bank IMO.

 

[CASPER-2]

That's alot of lead, make sure the beams in your house are structurally sound in that area, or is that the basement floor?

basement floor...

 

[JerseyLowTide]

Nice collection of lead, back in the late 90s we installed a lot of windows in South Jersey and only one job we ever did had four 20lbs lead window weights and I still have a couple of them plus 500+ pounds of lead I dug up over the years. I always wanted to melt it and make maybe 100lbs ingots for fun 😊

 

[WaterWalker]

Ah...if you only had the Alchemist's touch...until then, stay safe when cleaning the melt.

 

[BennyV]

I’d gladly pay $1 a pound. I make my own jigs. Have a tackle
Company.

 

[zigzag]

I thought I had a lot of lead with a 5 gal. bucket full. That's crazy. Ed

 

[CASPER-2]

I thought I had a lot of lead with a 5 gal. bucket full. That's crazy. Ed

I hit lot of spots that "used to be" swim spots but are now fishing spots
some spots used to be 300 yrds of beach but towns have reduced to 50 yrds and they fish heavily on either side
if i had someone willing to pay $1 a pound near by - heck I got spots I can get 100 sinkers a day

 

[CASPER-2]

I also have a few dive weights ive found - this was an old set im guessing since organism
ate the actual belt over the yrs
only thing that sucked finding these was i was about 200 yrds out in the ocean when i found them and had a hard time lugging them back to the car

 

[CASPER-2]

I also have a few dive weights ive found - this was an old set im guessing since organism
ate the actual belt over the yrs
only thing that sucked finding these was i was about 200 yrds out in the ocean when i found them and had a hard time lugging them back to the car
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this one was from a Jamaica trip

 

[pepperj]

I also have a few dive weights ive found - this was an old set im guessing since organism
ate the actual belt over the yrs
only thing that sucked finding these was i was about 200 yrds out in the ocean when i found them and had a hard time lugging them back to the car
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When you mean an organism, do you mean a 🦈.

 

[cudamark]

I thought detecting in Jamaica was illegal?

 

[CASPER-2]

I’d gladly pay $1 a pound. I make my own jigs. Have a tackle
Company.

How far are you away from Ma. ?

 

[CASPER-2]

I thought detecting in Jamaica was illegal?

it is now...that was like 10 yrs ago

 

[cudamark]

it is now...that was like 10 yrs ago

I wonder what happened to change their mind.

 

[CASPER-2]

it is now...that was like 10 yrs ago

My 3 trips before it was banned

 

[CASPER-2]

I wonder what happened to change their mind.

I heard it was cause of a- holes poaching in places like Port Royal and stealing underwater treasures
you need a government permit which is very hard to get - they dont give to ordinary detectorist
have a friend that has dual citizenship and said he cant get one