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Lead mining
Not having the equipment to make proper dirt berms for backstops, I build them with dead elm logs. I make them about four foot square. I seem to have an abundance of dying elm trees that I cut into four foot pieces which I can handle.( barely)
After a season of shooting I need to rebuild them by adding new logs. The area where the bullets impact is pretty well reduced to sawdust and chips about half way through the pile.
The fun part is there are always lots of bullets to pick up. It’s my version of an Easter egg hunt, only more fun!
Today while I was working on my three hundred yard backstop and happily filling my pockets with lead, I found a jacketed bullets that my son had shot with his 7 mag and 6.5/284. Those tiny bullets where only a few inches into the pile while the big lead ones where way back.
High velocity versus bullet mass.
Jim
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