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[SingleActionAndrew]

If there are guys who melt down the lead from the baffles at the club for more bullets...

That's really cool on many levels. Talk about reduce, REUSE, recycle.

For the guys n gals who collect and use this stuff, do you care much what I shoot?

Soft swaged lead I assume is just dandy. What about powder or hitek coating - do you have a preference? What about JHPs like a 230gr Hornady XTP - are those hurting or helping the cause? And finally of course our copper monoliths and frangibles - would it be impolite to mix those in the scrap?

Thanks

 

[jmorris]

Free lead is free lead but I would prefer cast bullets vs jacketed. One, I don’t need the jacket, they float in molten lead but do require agitation upon removal to get all the lead out. Cast bullets are also already the correct alloy, the more jacketed bullets (generally filled with pure lead) I melt back down the more lynotype I have to mix in to get back to the right weights/hardness.



I powder coated first but switched to Hi-Tek once I tried it.

 

[gwpercle]

Everything that is not lead , like bullet jackets , monolithic and frangible will float to the surface of the melting lead . Conventional lubes and powder coating are burned to ash .
A fluxing of the melting lead and the trash is then skimmed off the top surface leaving a lead alloy usually around 6 or 7 bhn (if pure lead is 5 bhn) I usually treat range scrap as near pure lead and mix it 50-50 with clip on wheel weight alloy for a good all around handgun bullet alloy .
Everything you shoot that contains a lead core is re-usable . Lead handgun bullets are almost 100% recyclable ... jacketed bullets about 90% ( I'm guessing here) but all bullets that contain lead ... like plated bullets are good and useable in the process .