Hey guys, casting for 45 acp bullseye loads and just scored 300 pounds of Lyman ingots. Have no idea whats in the ingots so I dropped some in my Lyman bottom pour and cast a bunch of 200 gr 45 acp bullets. I'm at about 9-10 BHN on week old air cooled bullets. From what I'm told these are more than hard enough for my light bullseye loads of around 3.8 gr bullseye powder.
Now, I have no idea if the other 290 pounds is all the same stuff. Came from the same 55 gal drum full of these ingots. Seems pretty clean and casts great.
Would you add anything to this lead or just cast it the way it is. I'm using the lead pencil test to get my BHN number.
I have a bunch of 50/50 solder if I need to use that for anything. I'd like to make as many simple and easy to cast bullets as possible .
Thank all
Joe