molly coated bullets?

[chewie]

alot of time when i go to cowboy shoot i get a bag of molly coated bullets. can i melt them down and get the lead out of them?

will the molly coat stuff float to the top?

also old bullets i find at the range. if they have lube on them will that stuff also float to the top?

i also have bunch of old shot sinkers from trout fishing i plan on melting down.

will all this work for casting balls for my ruger?

i assume i skim this stuff off with a spoon or something?

[Three44s]

I don't know what weapon you are casting for so I can't tell you if the resultant alloy would be right.

But, I can tell you that the moly will float to the surface of the melt if given enough time and proper fluxing.

Three 44s

[chewie]

it would be for my old army cap-n-balls. 457

[shotman]

the sinkers will work but the boolits will be too hard for the black powder shotman

[Shotgun Luckey]

the lube on the old bullets will act as flux and help clean your melt, but THAT alloy will be awful hard for black powder.

[chewie]

thanks for all the replies. i am getting closer to start my first castings.:drinks:

[Hardcast416taylor]

Just about all "gifts" of lead that are of unknown alloy mix are turned into sinkers or some other use not related to being shot from my guns.