Most are trying to harden up their alloy, but I would like to soften mine up. I have an abundance of range scrap recuperated from a 25 meter range. It’s an indoor cast bullet only club. Not many members cast their own and use commercial lead boolit rounds or buy slugs for reloading. I’ve come to find that the lead used is normally pretty hard so it’s easy to transport without it getting damaged.
The hardened lead I was recuperating worked well with rifle boolits, but now I have have been doing a lot of muzzleloading where it is best to use soft lead. I am in France, so unless someone here would like to trade some soft for hard, postage puts that out of the picture.
I am wondering if it is possible to remove the alloy, that increases its hardness. I guess I could cook off the tin at a high temperature, but how about the antimony, that I think will need higher temperatures. I’m hoping there is something I could flux with to bond the the antimony letting me remove it. Are there any metallurgists that can shed some light on this.
Thanks