I get Sheet lead cheap from a Friend of mine who owns a junkyard. Most Xray booth sheathing but a fair amount of Flashing too. Cast Minnie Balls with it but don't use it for my Schuetzens. It needs to be fluxed well and cleaned up, then tin added.  Both cost, gas to run the pot while cleaning up and buying tin is not cheap.   

Pre alloyed 1/25 from Roto Metals is just right ready to go.  Use more 38/55 than anything else. 300 grs am getting 24 bullets to the pound.  Perhaps 40 or 50 lbs per year coveres the 38 and right many 32's too.   

Just not worth all the trouble to prep the scrap sheet to get it ready for a fine target rifle were bullet quality is the key to sucess. And not save much money even if going to the trouble.

Boats

Contacted Northern Smelters, at $5.35 kg for casting lead will get some from them next time I am in Brisbane where they are,again thanks for all the info, a mine of good solid facts from you guys,

Schutzenbob wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 11:54pm:


I part lead, 1 part auto wheel(balancing) weights.

Aonghas

Cat_Whisperer wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 5:44pm:


Yup,but then, you don't exactly take a great lungful ot two of lead vapour for the bracing atmosphere...

Now if you really want to harden lead, get a block of charcoal and make a depression in it. With a propane (oxy propane is better) torch get the charcoal pit glowing red, and melt some silver in it, then add a slightly larger quantity of lead.

Cast it quickly, and it's the nearest to armour-piercing I've (accidentally) made. (I used to work in a metallurgical firm where we made zirconium-copper and zirconium-nickel alloys for adding to and making armour-piercing steels...

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