troy_mclure
04-08-2010, 03:33 PM
i just received 6lbs of rainier ballistics plated 9mm bullets.
my buddy had gotten a bunch of ammo from a friend and it was loaded way(bulging case) hot.
he pulled the bullets and gave them to me.
i tossed them in my 10lb lee pot and put it on hi.
after 10 mins or so i came back to see "steel wool" all over everything.
as i was thinking *** a bullet popped shooting out a hair thin stream of lead.
as i mixed them i noticed that the copper shells were gone.
i checked the temp, it was over 1000f !!!
the copper shells had dissolved into the lead.
when it cooled (800-900) most of the copper solidified up top into real hard chunks that floated.
but there were still chunks THAT SANK in the liquid lead.
it blocked up my spout so i dumped it sideways into my pan.
there are still goldish colored hunks in the ingots.
what could the hunks be?
my buddy had gotten a bunch of ammo from a friend and it was loaded way(bulging case) hot.
he pulled the bullets and gave them to me.
i tossed them in my 10lb lee pot and put it on hi.
after 10 mins or so i came back to see "steel wool" all over everything.
as i was thinking *** a bullet popped shooting out a hair thin stream of lead.
as i mixed them i noticed that the copper shells were gone.
i checked the temp, it was over 1000f !!!
the copper shells had dissolved into the lead.
when it cooled (800-900) most of the copper solidified up top into real hard chunks that floated.
but there were still chunks THAT SANK in the liquid lead.
it blocked up my spout so i dumped it sideways into my pan.
there are still goldish colored hunks in the ingots.
what could the hunks be?