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I have sold many hundreds of lead hardness testers and have had customers that used lead from airgun ranges. With the Saeco tester they can use any kind of lead because they know the hardness they want for their bullets and with a tester they can identify the hardness of any kind of lead appearing material and what to mix together soft or hard for their hardness choice.
Tire weights have varied between 5 to 6.5 on a scale of 0 for pure lead and 10 for linotype. For my commercial bulletmaking and reloaded ammo I preferred a consistent hardness of 7 using scrap, tire weights, linotype and tin for my 6,000 pound capacity smelter.
but do you know whether airgun pellets are usually pure lead? It needs to be pure, dead-soft lead for muzzleloading or you can barely ram it down the bore.
Meanwhile someone who uses them may respond here. One test for lead is the fingernail test if you can mark a piece of it with a fingernail and it is of a blueish color and appears in sheets at the scrap yard from being gutters on very old buildings or from being old protective covers on telephone line connector boxes.
Check the internet for the company that makes the pellets and ask them. I know that I can pinch and flatten the skirt of my pellets and they are close to pure but search and ask.
I'm no expert but do not believe match grade pellets are pure lead. They seem somewhat harder ( to the touch/pinch) and don't oxidize like pure lead. I believe the delecate design and precision tollerance requirements of high end pellets would make pure lead a poor choice.
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