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Thread: Average % lead in range scrap

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    Boolit Master


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    Like the brand of Brandon's undies-Depends. Depends on composition of the lead in the j-words shot.
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    I tried it once, with purchased range scrap. As I recall, copper jackets remaining were about 1/4 to 1/3 of the initial mass.
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    I don't use range scrap very much anymore but the best I remember I netted something like 65-70% from our indoor range and 60-65% from the berms on our outdoor range. The indoor range had more cast bullet shooters and the outdoor range seemed to attract more J-word shooters. The indoor range also would not accommodate rifle shooters so the outdoor range had the rifle shooters. It used a homemade steel backstop that directed the bullets into a sand trap.

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    I had an indoor range owner give me a 5 gal bucket (200lbs +/-)of his scrap to "try out" which I did. I then bought it from him for $50 per bucket, 2 buckets at a time. Melting it down yielded about 65% alloy and the rest was jacket material and plastic shotgun wads. The jacket material I sold to a local scrap yard for $.65/lb. The net cost of the clean alloy worked out to about $.40/lb. I now have well over a ton of ingots that BMI tells me are 98 1/2% Pb, 1%Sb, and less than 1/2%Sn.

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    I am guessing that I netted something opposite of lightman. The indoor range had this dusty black residue that was maybe the coating on .22lr bullets. There was a lot of it. The outdoor range had copper jackets that need to be scraped out. Then, there was the lead bullet shreds from the berm. That was probably the best.

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check