Range scrap

[Nora]

I've got about 50# of assorted range scap lead of about 75% jacketed, 25% cast. Any one care to take a guess as to how hard this may be or what it may likely compare to? Gonna turn it into muffins and don't know what it may need to be mixed with before casting into boolits.

Thanks in advance

Nora

[eldoradolee]

All the range lead that I personally have collected,melted,and poured into ingots,average about
10 to12 B.H.N.This is a comination of rifle,pistol,jacketed & cast.This is over a period of 5 years.
Hope this helps.Lee

[nvbirdman]

If it shot good for the last guy it'll shoot good for me.
I just melt them and cast them.

[Carolina Cast Bullets]

not to be a wet blanket, but how do you know it shot good for him?

I've used range lead without alloying for all my low/med velocity loads with little or no problem. Some of my clients even ask for it for cowboy bullets.

Jerry
Carolina Cast Bullets

[imashooter2]

I've been shooting nothing but range scrap from a couple of different indoor ranges for a long time now. My scrap measures 12 - 14bhn air cooled and 20-24bhn water dropped. This is based on samples pulled from many different buckets collected over a better than 5 year span.

ETA: The 25% cast are likely to be almost 100% commercial hardball alloy. They should provide more than enough tin to the mix for it to cast wonderfully just as is.

[TinCan Assassin]

I shoot the range scrap I pick up from the berm at the local "Everybody knows about this place" range. As far as harness goes, no clue. Shoots good, and the bullets I recover that I know are mine are still recognizable, if that means anything.

I cast it all into .38 Special, so it's not like I'm shooting it all that fast though.

[evan price]

My range scrap is mostly jacket bullets but I grab all the cast I can find and shotgun slugs too. It checks out for me at 8-10 BHN air cooled and bumps up to 10-12 BHN water quenched. About a "B" on the pencil scale, and great for boolits shot at 1200 fps or less. Get all you can now, who knows when it will go away or the .gov will require zinc bullets or something.

[blackbike]

range lead good 1000fps.
make better with 1/4 per ww 1000+ (mag) yea

[inkedbylee]

if its from indoor its to soft for rifle but i have had really good luck with it in almost all pistol shooting under 1100 fps as long as you dropinto a nice cold water. i found 99% of my handguns love cold drop loaded ontop of herco.

[imashooter2]

if its from indoor its to soft for rifle but i have had really good luck with it in almost all pistol shooting under 1100 fps as long as you dropinto a nice cold water. i found 99% of my handguns love cold drop loaded ontop of herco.

Not my experience at all, but every rifle is law unto itself...