Not hot enuff??

[Andrew Quigley]

Was doing a little smelting this morning. When I was skimming the crap off the top I noticed flattened bullets that hadn't melted. Throwing some back in the pot with the lead in a pure liquid state they won't melt at all.
Also I had one jacketed bullet in the pot and it didn't melt out either although it was open at the back I'm using a turkey fryer burner and a dutch oven for my pot. Don't have a thermometer so don't know how hot it was but was in a very liquid state. The lead came off a Cowboy range so it should be a batch of hard bullets with a few, mine, pure leads thrown in.
Reckin I wasn't hot enough?

[Freightman]

Just got through smelting some range scrap had two bullets that didn't want to melt, after they cooled ckd. them an they appear to be a steel jacket as a magnet would attract them there core wasn,t lead and not zink as they wouldn't melt with a propane torch. Might be some of this "Green" ammo or what ever the eco- Nazis want to call it.

[Bent Ramrod]

I've had flattened .22 bullets sit on the dross and dirt on top of lower-melting alloy for a long time without melting. Eventually I can stir them in. Larger boolits should sink through the crud to the molten surface and melt, though, if they are lead alloy.

[Andrew Quigley]

These are nearly paper thin bullets. We shoot steel targets at about 7 to 10 yrds and some mushroon up pretty good and I get others that go totally flat. These last are the floaters. Tried a magnet just for laughs but it wasn't attracted.
Like I said these were just lead bullets except for the one jacketed one.

[runfiverun]

they could be some of the aluminum coated winchester bullets

[Andrew Quigley]

That's one I never heard of! Aluminum you say. If that don't beat all.