Originally Posted by
kevin c
I don't know about your range, of course, but at mine it's getting more and more common to find non lead projectiles that, fortunately, declare themselves by floating on the melt. They seem to be made of a sintered metal (copper?). They don't deform like lead, either burying themselves intact in the sand, maybe chipping if they hit another slug or small rock in the berm, and will shatter on steel. At first, I mistook them for plated, but they never melt at temperatures for lead. They will break if tapped with a hammer on a hard surface (NOT right after being skimmed out of the melt: you do not want to mistakenly smack an intact plated lead bullet with a molten core!).