Hello guys. Longtime on-and-off lurker, first time poster. I’m a longtime member over at CalGuns.net and Shotgunworld.com (same screen name at both).
So a good buddy of mine gave me a 200 pound piece of old bathtub pan lead, and about a hundred pounds of old lead pipes. I’ve started melting down and cleaning the pan lead, and I plan to work on some of the pipe lead this weekend.
Am I correct in assuming that the bathtub pan lead is very soft, and the lead pipe is a much harder lead? And if so, is there a good mixture of the two I can utilize to make some decent #4 buckshot, 00 buck, and possibly some slugs?
If needed I also have 3 five gallon buckets of unrefined spent bullets (both full metal jacket, and pure lead bullets) that I can add into the pot to achieve proper hardness for my buckshot?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
-rich