went to the range the other day, after shooting spent 20 min with a large soup ladle made of wire and picked 40# with it. Refined it and ended up with 36# very few jackets in it and the lead was very hard rang instead of clunk. Cast fine though and as I said very hard , no don't have a hardness tester.
Frank G.
I'd guess that it was at the pistol range and they shoot a lot of commercially cast boolits there. Probably a "hardball" mix of 92% lead, 6% antimony and 2% tin for about 15-16 BHN. You did real good!
That was my thought as well, sounds like someones been shooting some pricey hardcast hunting ammo at the range. Their loss is your gain!Originally Posted by Yodogsandman
I have a lot of range lead from a pistol range that is tested at 15 bhn and higher . At one time there were a lot of shooters buying there bullets for reloading from a local commercial caster that used reclaimed shot for the most part .Marvin
A lot of the com-cast stuff I used in the past was around 18. I use 9-12 for just about everything I cast. 18 is just too hard for what I need.
banger
My range scrap mostly falls somewhere between 10 and 14. I'm plenty happy with that.
probably got a bunch of lazercast in there.
that stuff is like 4,000 on the bhn scale. [okay I probably typed 1 too many 0's]
Some of the old time casters here use to use pure lino .Send it to me Frank.Or someone closer to you might have a hardness tester.USPS might loose the boolts again tho lol.
Bob
The bunch of OLD men that were connected got all the lino from the paper when it went digital about 10,000 # and that is what it is they have so much they don't cut it
Frank G.
If it was around 15 BHN, kudos, high fives, belly bumps, etc..............
Means a lot of morons were throwing some expensive lead downrange.
Keep that stuff to mix with softer lead to make some 12ish BHN. Perfect for handgun.
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