I have been able to scrounge a bunch of range scrap of known origin. It's from our range at work so I know what has been shot into it as we are limited to what we can buy in our ammo contract. It is all .40 cal and 9mm Federal, Winchester or Remington ammo mostly FMJ but some hollow point as well. That and the same brands of 00 buck.
Is there any consistancy that can be expected from this being a known source? I don't have a hardness tester so I can't test the ingots I've smelted so far. I have about 100 lbs in ingots right now and about another 700 lbs of scrap to melt.
One more question too, does it take everyone else a LOOOOONG time to melt this stuff down? Spent 3 hours last night to get 22 muffin pan ingots. Takes me about 30 minutes to get that many with wheel weights.