Rubber berm cleaning and lead reclamation

What we do

American Reclamation cleans rubber berms and rubber granulate bullet traps for indoor and outdoor shooting ranges. We sort the rubber in the bay, where all contamination stays contained, and recover every size of spent lead:

• Whole bullets. Everybody gets these.
• Broken pieces. Torn jackets, mashed slugs and cracked cores. Too small for a bullet screen and too big for a fines screen, so most crews leave them in your berm.
• Lead fines. The powder and grit that pack your media tight, dirty your air and pull your next cleaning closer.

When the lead is out, the material is screened and rebuilt so the berm returns to proper slope and goes back to work.

How a cleaning works

• Assess. We walk your trap and berm, or review the photos you send.
• Plan. Scope, schedule and how you get paid are agreed before we show up.
• Reclaim. We service one bay at a time so you stay open. Plan on about 10 lanes per day, fines included.
• Report. Photos, weight tickets and one statement showing the metal, the weights and the freight.

Everything is weighed, and you are welcome to watch every pound go on the scale. All reclaimed metals leave on one truck: one trip, one pickup, and no surprise bill from a hauler you never hired.

Real results

At one range, the company cleaning it before us was averaging about 10,000 pounds per reclamation. On our first cleaning at that same range we recovered more than 21,000 pounds, including whole bullets, broken pieces and fines that earlier cleanings had left behind.

Questions about rubber berm cleaning

Also see indoor range lead reclamation, outdoor berm lead reclamation and all questions.