On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:48:16 -0500, Wes wrote:

Hawke wrote:

Don't you think you need a few tons of lead? Gummer thinks he'll use
his. Do you think he will? Or is it just the tendency to acquire stuff
you don't need and then hoard it? As someone that is getting up there in
age my self I know I don't have a lifetime ahead of me. I'm not ever
going to use a lot of stuff I thought I needed. Some people never learn
that and go on acquiring junk they will never use. Lead, need a few tons?


A ton of lead in grains
14000000

Number of 230g bullets
60869.56522

Days of shooting 100 rounds
608.6956522

Years a ton lasts.
1.66651787


Wes


And many of my bullets to be cast are in the 450-500 grain range.

I figure a full ton will serve me for the rest of my life. Im not
shooting the 35-50,000 rounds a year in just .45 alone, that I used to
shoot.

Gunner

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the
means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of
it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different
countries, that the more public provisions were made for the
poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became
poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the
more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin
Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766