From range scrap to first ingot casting

[666damosydney]

I dug out a few shooting positions at my club the other week and got a couple buckets of range scrap most shooters at my club shoot coated bolits so i thought good start to try and cast with it then go from there.
Well i think i did ok i used pure parifin wax to reduce/flux get all the junk out about 5 times to make sure was clean as i could get it ended up with 79 pound of clean ingots free from the range.
Some ingots real shinny some only a little but once cooled seemed fairly hard dont have a tester or lead pencils.
If any one can see issues with the ingots please jump in any help would be great.

[mongoose33]

Nice stash!

Try denting the ingots with your thumbnail--if you can do that you're probably between 10 and 15 bhn. Range scrap is usually pretty soft though if there's a lot of coated bullets it might be pretty decent.

[666damosydney]

Nice stash!

Try denting the ingots with your thumbnail--if you can do that you're probably between 10 and 15 bhn. Range scrap is usually pretty soft though if there's a lot of coated bullets it might be pretty decent.

i banged it against hard point of metal barley made a mark so i think its ok

[lightman]

Thats a good days work. Lots of guys post pictures of their smelting operation. We like pictures! Nice pictures of your pile, by the way!

[Seeker]

You did a fine job. They look great!

[bedbugbilly]

The only "issue" with them that I see is that they are at your house and not mine! LOL It looks like you had a very productive day - I think they look great!

[mongoose33]

i banged it against hard point of metal barley made a mark so i think its ok

I'm sure it's OK--it's just a question of what composition you have. Metal will dent linotype so your mark isn't all that indicative of what's in it.

I was working on both linotype and lyman #2 bullets last night--can't scratch the linotype w/ my thumbnail at all, but I can with the #2.