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Thread: Pewter Super Score? Please say yes!!

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    An XRF device would tell you what's in a thrift store find; Those run many many $$$ (5-10k or something?) One gent on here has one and will, for a pound of soft lead, IIRC, give you a reading on a bit of your unknown alloy - So that is a possibility. Don't recall his name but it's findable

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    User name is BNE I think...

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    Yes that's it

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    I bought a few pieces of scrap pewter. I put a butane lighter on them right there in the store. They started melting...then I knew.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traffer View Post
    I bought a few pieces of scrap pewter. I put a butane lighter on them right there in the store. They started melting...then I knew.
    I have found that in some cases it is better to not let the seller know that the "pretty" pewter I just bought is destined to become a puddle on it's way to being a bullet. Smashing it flat by stomping on it so it takes up less room in the box you have in the trunk can cause some nice little old ladies to look at you like you just stomped baby ducks.
    Scrap.... because all the really pithy and emphatic four letter words were taken and we had to describe this source of casting material somehow so we added an "S" to what non casters and wives call what we collect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RogerDat View Post
    I have found that in some cases it is better to not let the seller know that the "pretty" pewter I just bought is destined to become a puddle on it's way to being a bullet. Smashing it flat by stomping on it so it takes up less room in the box you have in the trunk can cause some nice little old ladies to look at you like you just stomped baby ducks.
    Hey the last piece I bought was so nice, it now sits on my desk as a catch all. Can't bring myself to melt it.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check