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anybody know the alloy or hardness of these? I save the ones I clean out from my bullet trap, but some batches seem to make bullets too hard to load. Others are fine.
They are supposed to be about 1-1.5% antimony, Brinell 10 or so. I am sure it varies a little between brands. Half pure lead and half 22 bullets would soften it where you should be able to load them easily.
Since you're going to the effort to get lead out of bullet traps, I'll assume that you're willing to take time to clean it out a bit.
Run your melt up fairly hotter than normal, don't "flux", then skim off the residue and the golden "skin" that accumulates on the surface. That's your antimony (among other things). I do that to my lead sources,and they seem to make decent maxiballs that engrave in the rifling (they have rifling engraved after I pull them
BTW, for round ball, it really doesn't matter. If your roundball is touhing rifling, something is wrong with your patch!
KH, you are going to a lot of trouble for a small reward in gathering up the .22's. It would figure out to about 5 .22's for each .490 round ball, maybe more.
If you want lead, go to your local FOP range after a heavy rain and take a 5 gallon bucket and a shovel and get behind the target line where the bullets are washed down.
You'll have trouble carrying the buicket with about 4 shovels full in it, and after it is melted down and pigged, you will have about 40 pounds of good lead.
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