I had three cat litter buckets under my work bench that I would put range scrap in, one was about 3/4 full the others were about 1/2 full. After reading about melting plated boolits I started to pick through one to see how many there were. It didn't take long to figure out that I wasn't going to sort them them all out so I got the old Coleman cook stove out and thought I would do a test melt to see what a random mix would look like. Well I melted a fry pan full and poured a few ingots , this is all scrap I picked up over about three years and about 90% jacketed . It went well so I did another and another and before long the two 1/2 buckets were all cooked down and had 96 lb's . So I thought what the heck and started on the fuller one and it didn't take as long as I thought and I had another 73 lb's for 169 lb's total . I didn't have much gas for the stove but did have enough for three tanks and used two and a half to melt it all. I ended up with 64 lb's of jackets and stuff, not all the plated melted and are in there somewhere but didn't see any squirters.
So now I have 169 lb's of ingots that are all different. As I went through I saw that the stuff picked up the last years had more jacketed then the stuff I had picked up earlier so at some point I still need to get a turkey cooker so I can melt it into one big batch that is all the same and then see what I have. But it should keep me in 38's and 357's for a few years.
I think I had read that you can wash the jackets in dish soap and citric acid to clean them to sell for scrap, may have to pick out the rocks and the plated boolits and stuff but that can wait for later.
But any way I never started out to do this but if any one cares this is what I ended up with.