Rmr lead

Swampman said:

That's affirmative.
My best guess is that it'd introduce quality control issues. Or maybe they dont have the staffing and facilities to set up a large scale smelting line when they can buy the proper alloy for less than it'd cost 'em to smelt and re-alloy it in house.

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I believe RMR doesn’t do any casting. They are swaging their bullets unless I’m mistaken.
I think most of lead they sell is scrap thier machines kick back out when they are forming the bullet core. Somebody please correct me if they know otherwise.

It's the noodles from swaging and some rejected cores. Dissapoited it's gone now. I wonder if we talked about it too much. I may have mentioned it on castboolits.com....

I don't think they have any plans or interest to cast. Plus they seem like they have been absolutely slammed lately.

If you keep the mold hot they seem to come out alright.

Barbaroja said:

I believe RMR doesn’t do any casting. They are swaging their bullets unless I’m mistaken.
I think most of lead they sell is scrap thier machines kick back out when they are forming the bullet core. Somebody please correct me if they know otherwise.

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I found these on their website before I posed my original question to longdayjake.


They're out of stock, but they show reviews as recent as late February 2021.

Some perfect muffins lol, what's the hardness. If it's soft in May have to get some if it's back in stock.

Swampman said:

I found these on their website before I posed my original question to longdayjake.
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They're out of stock, but they show reviews as recent as late February 2021.

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Thanks! That’s news to me. If they have the ability to cast Bullets it would certainly seem like a more lucrative way to deal with the swaging scraps then to sell it to us knuckleheads.

AJC1 said:

I measured one of the chunks and it was .315 in diameter. I was thinking guys with 32s would shoot them if they were a little bigger.

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Some powder coating would bump the size up.

AJC1 said:

Tested 5 samples 1 sample twice and I'm getting between 8-9 bhn air cooled after 24 hours.

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I'm hoping it will be fine with 9mm and 300blk light loads powdercoated through a suppressor

RMR has been my primary source of "bought" lead. As soon as I saw it posted here I knew the party was over.
Sigh.....

AJC1 said:

I hope it was not good bullet cores.

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This is before the bullet core process, so hopefully that means they are not wasting machine time making out of spec cores.

I would prefer a big box of those 'rods' over the scrap cores and noodles, ingots too. The rods look easy to handle and feed into the melter.

This thread keeps reminding me that I have 60 lbs of noodles to melt into ingots. I’m using the cores almost as is as wadcutters for 32swl. I may have a lifetime supply if I buy another 120 lbs. I figure each box I get is good for roughly a decade at the rate I shoot that caliber, but that’s also one of the things I have trouble finding, so it’s a win-win and I don’t even have to buy a mold.

Man that looks like good lead,

AJC1 said:

So are you PC the nuggets and shooting them? If so please expound.

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Yes. PC, then size. The reject cores are a few different sizes (length) and I sort them by size and coat. They are slightly rounded on each end but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. It’s essentially a full wadcutter in harbor freight White after it’s coated and sized to .314. I’m going to buy a .311 sizer and see how the longer ones do in 30-30

WestKentucky said:

Yes. PC, then size. The reject cores are a few different sizes (length) and I sort them by size and coat. They are slightly rounded on each end but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. It’s essentially a full wadcutter in harbor freight White after it’s coated and sized to .314. I’m going to buy a .311 sizer and see how the longer ones do in 30-30

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Interesting. I hadn't thought about the 30-30. Now I'm going to have to dig through my box and measure some of those cores!

We no longer make hard cast bullets. I actually sold the machinery to do it. The labor cost to produce them is just too high compared to the speed and profit potential. We decided to let other companies have that market since I really want to focus our efforts on making the best jacketed bullets in the industry. The lead will be back. In fact, I have 2500 lbs of lead still on spools and in a crate if anyone is interested in buying it as is. It has some oxidation on it but it's good lead.