I smelted some range lead the other day and I got more copper than lead. I took all the copper jackets to the local salvage yard. Surprize! They would not give me the copper price. They said that since the copper still had a little lead on them, they could only give me range lead price. I told them that it was the slag that comes from the smelting process and that it would be impossible for me to get it perfectly clean. So, i really doubt that I'll be smelting any more range lead.
Has anyone else faced this delima? Is it possible to get those copper jackets that clean?