Bullet lead is as good as or better than wheel weights for keels. You do
get a lot more dross off bullets that have sat inside a sand bank for a
year or two but you don't have to deal with a mass of clips and a lot of
grease smoke when you melt them down. The copper jackets just float to the
top of the pot and are easy to skim off.

The down side is a 5 gal bucket of bullets weighs a heck of a lot more than
a bucket of wheel weights. You need a fork lift to move one. Also it is a
good idea to have a pig tested for antimony content after melting down.
Bullet lead seems to vary more than wheel weights. Especially from ranges
used by lot of hand loaders and black powder shooters.

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"Stuart Wheaton" wrote in message
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian D"
Newsgroups: rec.boats.building
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:37 AM
Subject: Lead available in Cinci Ohio area.



Copper jacketed or plain lead?

Thx,
Brian

As I said...

We do not usually permit copper jacketed bullets, but there might be
a
trace
of that too.


I would say 95%+ is cast lead, there are some copper coated and very few
copper jacketed.

I would not anticipate any trouble in getting a very good yeild of clean
lead from this.