assortment of bullets

Hello everyone as I stated in an earlier post I told everyone that through my wife I have come into possession a lot of reloading components. I last posted about old reloads and now I have finally got everything sorted out and have a few more questions.

I have several different cal of bullets all in plastic bags some are marked and some are not and some have corrosion in different forms. Here is a photo of one bag that has no markings and is a mixture of lead pistol, jacketed pistol and jacketed rifle bullets. The pistol looks like 45 but I have not measured any of it. My question is can any of this be cleaned up and used or should it all be scrapped? If it can be cleaned up what would be the best way to go about it as far as chemicals.

Thanks guys that is just one bag of several and a lot of smaller bags. Most of the smaller bags are marked with bullet weight but not cal. One or two actually have a box top indicating the manufacture but not the cal.

The guy that the components came from was loading everything from 380 to 50AE in handguns and 223 to 30-06 in rifle. With the components that I was able to salvage, Brass and bullets and a RCBS Jr press, MEC shotgun press Redding case trimmer and several dies sets. It is a great addition to my Rockchucker and my bench.

I figure there is at least $500 min in these components and equipment. There were several power tools and hand tools that were also obtained. The guy told us that there was nothing in the house worth anything and told my wife to throw everything away had a dumpster delivered to the house. When he was told about what i was able to salvage and the tools he said that there was not more than $600 in value in all the contents of the house and said she could have what ever she wanted. He would not accept any money for anything.

I already have the cans ready to sit down and sort by cal and weight since it is raining and cold and limited outside activity. Guess I should tumble them first and then sort them out. Thanks again.

Joe

I tumbled the jacketed bullets in the tumbler for several hours and they cleaned up real nice except for the area where Patina had set on the copper. I used corncob and polish that Cabela’s sells with their tumbler. If anyone has any ideas on the Patina and how to get it off with a safe cleaner let me know

I sorted the bullets by their looks, size cannelure or not and tip differences. I then measured and weighed the bullets and bagged them up. I have 243, 223, and 308 bullets along with the pistol bullets. The 223 my son will use and the 308 I will use along with the pistol bullets.

So the only thing that I have that I have no use for 243 I can buy a rifle in that cal or give them away. The boss said no to the rifle since I have been hounding her for a M1 she has almost caved on the M1 so I will not push my luck. I have not counted them but I think I have a couple hundred of the 243.