So I've got this 100 lbs of range scrap collected into a bucket. A certain number of the slugs will be FMJ that survived the trip into the berm more or less intact, meaning their lead won't melt out in smelting.
What's your favorite, fastest, easiest and cheapest way to cut the FMJ rounds open?
Some guys use simple 7" diagonal wire cutters, but that takes a good amount of oomph to cut through a .45ACP slug. Buy a 9"?
A small bolt cutter held in a fixture so you can operate one handle while positioning the slug into its jaws?
Some kind of shear?
Cable cutters? (I happen to have one....)
Just kicking around for ideas because some of you guys have come up with brilliant solutions I had not considered for other problems (like using a cutoff clear plastic water bottle and cap to hold and position the Lee Hardness Tester microscope over a test article).