Easy cheap lead reclaiming
If you cast your own bullets you know how challenging it can be to keep your lead in good quantities, I do a lot of range mining and therefore I have a lot of lead ingots but with my bullet weight a pound of lead is only 28 bullets. So basically I hate to loose my lead on targets. I found this awhile ago with my condor and by curiosity I was wondering how good my penetration would be on a lead ingot well the pellet fused into the lead ingot, so I took this a step farther and made a bigger ingot it weighs 45 pounds and is simply range lead cleaned of casings and garbage, left to cool down in my smelting pan. I took it out to the range to try my 457 out on it and it worked flawlessly every shot was just soaked into my ingot. here’s a pic of the results. [img
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Not sure Knifemaker, Im not a good enough shot! 
And how well does it work with tighter groups? 😆
Just f’n with ya. Can’t resist! 😉 😆
So… does this work with all calibers at high and low FPS? ❓
As you can see I dug a couple rounds out with hammer and chisel some of the penetration at 100 yards is 1 inch deep.
LOL….I do the same thing in my garage with PURE LEAD pellets and my pure lead ingots. True, it’s much easier to locate the spent lead and its 100 percent CLEAN. No paper confetti or wood chips laying in the garage when you use them as backers. For casters, this can be the ABSOLUTE BEST BACKERS. I’ve also shot the same ingot with different calibers at the same range and you can see the dramatic upset between the puss calibers and the monster FPE calibers.
Nice
I have always been entertained by the way bullets hit the Lyman ingots, but I have to say I never would have thought of this ingenious trick .
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😆 😉