Shooting and hoarding seem to be popular here. I do lots of both so I thought I'd share. They both seem to overlap. This spring I found a 23foot sailboat, it came with a trailer. I was looking for a lead keel and possibly a solid trailer frame for my sawmill. The trailer was janky but I got over 600 lbs of lead from the sucker. I cast lots boolits. This is one way to keep cost down. I did repurpose the trailer into a woods trailer for the quad. A little welder and torch action and voila. I've been wanting a tough, high ground clearance atv trailer for a while. (It has more clearance that the quad) I used an old beat torsion snowmobile axle, the boat trailer axle is in good shape and a drop axle, So I'm saving it. I used an oil drum for the bed, and to ridgid the frame. Used old beat trailer tires, no longer fit for public road service. Used some scrap hemlock from the mill for the sides. Its about 6x3 by ft 3 tall sides and it gets loaded fully. So about what a pickup can haul. I have a spare hand crank winch from it as well(rear boom for my arch?) from the old trailer and lots scrap steel left over. The sailboat is a target and lead catcher. It has multiple layers of fiberglass, it stops everything but rifle .30 cal and up. It was fun driving home with it, it poured water out until I got home, 45 minuets later. The rusty trusty trailblazer just grinned and pulled it. Its awesome going anywhere in mud or the woods and filling her up. It seems to have doubled productivity. It does weigh several hundred pounds. Its heavy as heck. 4 inch c channel lol.
The hoard Should net around 21,000 200grain ACP bullets. I've read that they used antinomy to harden the keel, one less step for me as only tin might be added. Well see how it pours/shoots. Might even have to soften up the alloy.
Kids these days would call it repurposing? The hemlock dries fairly hard, it would otherwise end up in my maple boiler!
