Hello all,
I haven't started casting yet but hope to get into it in the next few years and have been stashing away some lead.
I have a pellet stop that I use for my PCP airguns. It is a paper box full of rubber playground mulch. Any time I am doing target practice with my pellets guns I shoot into this, and can recover the pellets, which are pure lead (sounds like a winter project to me). I have it on good authority this thing will stop 22LR bullets as well.
Is there anything I should know about 22LR bullets, as far as metal content, in terms of saving them for future melting? Are they generally closer to full hard cast, or closer to pure lead? Obviously some of them are copper plated, but that can be skimmed off, right?
Thank you,
-pg