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My range has nets that catch the lead shot. Most of the shot falls in one place. Would there be any negatives to picking up and reusing the lead shot I find?
don't bother to try and filter it - there isn't that much difference in ACTUAL sizes....I use reclaimed shot all the time - works great and is a lot cheaper than new. The folks who reclaim it clean it and regraphite it. If you can get it for free, grab it.......
Reclaimed shot has been loaded for many, many years without much problem. You just want to make sure there's no dirt mixed in with it, and removing steel shot is easy. All it takes is a magnet.
If you can get this shot, just load it like you would new shot.
Once you make sure it's clean, you can put it in a tumbler with some graphite and let it tumble for a few minutes. It will make a mess of your tumbler, but will coat the shot with graphite in the process.
Most people just load as is, once again making sure there's no dirt in it.
Shot really doesn't need to be lubricated.
Used to be, in paper shell days, it rubbed on the bore of the gun all the way out.
Now, plastic shot-cups completely surround it, and none, or at least very little of it contacts the bore.
Back in the day, I even picked up AA plastic wads on the Skeet range at Ft. Carson Colo.
A trip to the Laundromat to wash them, and I was all set with reclaimed shot & recycled wads.
Many trap ranges wil have companies "mine" the range every 5 to 10 years. They simply go out and shovel in the top soil with the shot in that "gravy" area where 90% of the shot will fall. The soil and shot mix is then ran into a tumbler or cement mixer type with flowing water, the shot being heavier drops to the bottom the soil and rock is washed out. After that the shot is ran through a screen to remove any of the really large shot and now they probably use a magnet to rmeove the steel. The rest to the shot is bottled up. Usually the range takes a share and the recycler takes the rest for their work. The range will sell memebers their recycled shot which is of mixed sizes, usually 9's to 4's with most being 8 and 7-1/2 as they're the most common shot size at a trap range.
The mixed recycle shot can be reloaded and shot again but the patterns open up a bit due to the shot being deformed and of mixed sizes. I used to load recycled shot for the 16 yd line trap or skeet and use new for handicap and other longer range shooting.
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