Echo
03-10-2009, 01:46 AM
Friday morning, at our shooter's group breakfast, I presented the possibility of using depleted uranium for casting boolits. I mean, heavier than lead, depleted and all that, why not? When aircraft are salvaged here @ the Aircraft Maintenance And Rejuvenation (Reactivation? Restoration? Whatever...) Group, the depleted uranium used for balance weights and such is removed. If I could get some of that stuff, I could try casting boolits from it.
In a word - NO! These chums (some are fairly active duty types) were quick in their condemnation of such an idea, due to the toxicity of uranium, plus the fact that it tends to shatter, producing clouds of uranium dust, &cetera. A couple had seen the interior of armor that had been reduced by an A-10 (firing depleted-U core bullets). They tend to coated inside with U dust, caused by the round ricocheting around inside and self-destructing.
Criminy... I was just thinking of an alternative to Pb - I guess it won't be U.
In a word - NO! These chums (some are fairly active duty types) were quick in their condemnation of such an idea, due to the toxicity of uranium, plus the fact that it tends to shatter, producing clouds of uranium dust, &cetera. A couple had seen the interior of armor that had been reduced by an A-10 (firing depleted-U core bullets). They tend to coated inside with U dust, caused by the round ricocheting around inside and self-destructing.
Criminy... I was just thinking of an alternative to Pb - I guess it won't be U.