22 Rimfire Lead...

I have a friend who shoots 22 rimfire competition. He practices at his residence and uses a bullet trap to stop the boolits…

He literally has ½ dozen or more coffee cans full of the recovered lead…

I melted some of it and poured it into Lee ingots. I was thinking this lead would be fairly soft…

When dropping an ingot from a few inches above my garage floor, it makes a distinct “ring” as compared to the “thud” from a pure lead ingot…

It seem seems these 22 rimfire boolits might be harder than I thought…

Anyone know what BHN rimfire lead might be?...

Thanks…BCB

I cannot remember what the hardness was, but I use it with 3% tin in my 308 and it shoots great. My record 5 shot group at 100 yards is .305" and at 300 yards is 1.610".

Remember bullet fit is rule number one.

IF I remember correctly from my readings 22rf lead is +/- 98% lead and 2% antimony, add 2-3% tin and you should be good for handgun velocities.

I am shooting it at over 1900 fps.

I'm using 22rf lead from Eley bullets from a college rifle range. I was told it contains 1.5% Antimony. I add 1.5% Tin and water-drop and get a very nice alloy.

I am of the belief that it contains 1.5-2% antimony also.
this makes sense to me as they swage the little guy's, tin isn't friendly to swaging.

I have also heard from a normally reliable source that they contain that much tin.
I stated my doubts and the reason why, and he said he would do a re-check of his facts.
I haven't heard back from him yet,,,, so I'm going with the antimony until then.

I have melted down over 1000 lbs of 22 rim fire-lead and it all checks at 7.0 to 7.5 BHN.

Lafaun

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Originally Posted by alfloyd

I have melted down over 1000 lbs of 22 rim fire-lead and it all checks at 7.0 to 7.5 BHN.

Lafaun

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Thank you. I have melted down only about 5 lbs and it also checked in the 7 BHN range. They were all from domestic sources.

w30wcf

When I had mine analyzed this is what they said was in it. This was only the first melt to go from shards of lead to a ingot for another melting and the reason for the silicates at 2.61

Si 2.61
Sb .788
Pd .003
Pb 93.53
Cu .160
P 1.88

You could go to this thread
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-Pb&highlight= and see if he is taking samples again, then end up sending him a pound of lead per test you want done and a BB size sample to test.



Michael Grace

it works just fine for my handgun loads 700-1000 fps. hml.