Air Gun Pellets

[Toymaker]

My range has a top rated indoor airgun range used by a number of local high school teams. They started emptying their traps and are selling 20 lb buckets of pellets for $20. Return the bucket and get a $5 refund. I picked up 80 lbs. It's got paper and plastic from the backers in it but that will burn off, outside, when I turn it into ingots. The carbonized dross will help clean the lead too. They'll be cleaning out the traps on a regular basis too.

I read somewhere about the content of pellets, but don't remember where. I recall that most were pure lead but some had a little tin in them. A little tin isn't going to hurt anything. After I make ingots I'll test and check the content.

[jsizemore]

Here ya' go:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?313749-Air-Rifle-pellet-XRF-test&highlight=pellets

[GhostHawk]

Sounds like a score to me!

[melloairman]

My range has a top rated indoor airgun range used by a number of local high school teams. They started emptying their traps and are selling 20 lb buckets of pellets for $20. Return the bucket and get a $5 refund. I picked up 80 lbs. It's got paper and plastic from the backers in it but that will burn off, outside, when I turn it into ingots. The carbonized dross will help clean the lead too. They'll be cleaning out the traps on a regular basis too.

I read somewhere about the content of pellets, but don't remember where. I recall that most were pure lead but some had a little tin in them. A little tin isn't going to hurt anything. After I make ingots I'll test and check the content.
You might ask how many are using non lead pellets . I do not think you will have a problem unless there are a lot of shooters using them . They are becoming more popular as time goes by .Marvin

[Black Beard]

I think that some non-lead pellets might be zinc. They should be removed asap when you see them. They will go yellow and make toxic fumes if you try and melt them.

[Toymaker]

Thanks for the warning about zinc pellets. I'll watch but spotting them may be a problem. These people are serious shooters. Virginia Thrasher started and trained there. So I figure they're using the highest quality competition pellets. The top shooters are testing different lots and when they find one that's special they'll buy enormous amounts of the same lot.

[Mytmousemalibu]

I have some non-lead pellets for extra high velocity out of my Gamo, pretty sure they are made out of tin. They are soft, easy to deform with a fingernail. If they were zinc I would guess I couldn't do that. I'd jump all over a bucket of pellets like that!

[too many things]

I would think it would be hard to make pellets out of zinc. just my thought non lead would be tin

[runfiverun]

a little zinc isn't the end of the world.
we probably have some in all of our ww alloy and don't even know it.