anyway I'm new to casting, tonight was only my second sesssion and the first one I cast a total of 20 boolits. The reason I cut the first session short was because I was casting from my 6 quart dutch oven and with 30 lbs of lead in it the lead still wasn't deep enough to fill my ladle properly. This morning I found a lead melter with a small cast iron bucket about 4 inches in diameter so I decided to try again. Well I had to melt the lead in my dutch oven and as I was getting ready to scoop it into the 4 inch bucket I had a thought.
Now this is where the question I might not want answered comes into play... I'm either a genius or a complete idiot... I though let's just set this 4 inch bucket in the dutch oven. I set in down in the molten lead and ladled some into it. I filled it to the top and then some. All the dross and oxidation flowed right over the top lip of the bucket and landed back in the dutch oven. As I was casting I worked the sprue by hand and dropped the cuttings right into the dutch oven. All in all it worked quite well. So is there something I'm missing here that makes this a bad idea or have I stumbled onto a useful idea????