Making my own bullets, question regarding metal?

[zxcvbob]

I just bought 75 pounds of pure lead ingots at the junk yard today; it cost a little more than I'd liked, 80¢ per pound. But it is already in clean 3# ingots that will fit in my lead pot, so that's worth something. There's another 45 pounds of 'em available. I'm not sure if I'll go back for 'em or not. I'm still getting some lead for free...

 

[theotherwaldo]

On careful study of your photos, it looks like the actuating finger on the bolt may be damaged by someone rocking the hammer back and forth without quite engaging half cock. That eats away a little bit of the end of the bolt finger and puts the bolt out of time. If that's true you may have to either get another bolt or reshape the end of your old one.

Again, Good Luck!

BTW, a buck a pound is the going price in most places for pure lead.

 

[fastson]

Macmac: Thats some good advice, thanks a lot. Dont worry, I'm very careful with this old gun. I do not want to ruin it in any way. If it comes down to filing on parts I'd rather buy new parts from Dixie Guns.

I will try to provide better pics soon. I put the gun back together last night so I'll have to strip it back down again.

Do those Snap On screw drivers indicate you are or were a car tech?

I'm a industrical mechanic. The snap-on screwdrivers fit very well, but I'll check out and see if I can find any gun screw drivers from Dixie. The screws were not tightened very much so I had no problem unsrewing any of the screws. The only screw which was damaged (by one of the previous owners, mind) was the screw holding the trigger and bolt spring.

 

[scrat]

75lbs at 80 cents a lbs is not that bad. heck thats a good find.