Diving lead

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Just had about 25lbs of old scuba dive belt weights given to me. No idea of the contents and are painted blue. Are these OK to melt down for making bullets in the future?

DF
 
No they will strip your barrel clean or rifling, if you want I can take them off your hands. All joking aside they are usually wonderful to melt and shoot, a lot of them fit in the category near lino type, being extra hard. Not all though because there is no standard they could be a little softer but unlikely scuba weights are made to be bashed around and not dented. Great to mix with clip on WW for some fairly hard boolits. Or if your into just plinking and having fun trade them for clip ons, because lino is rare to none existent these days, you maybe able to trade 1lbscuba for 3lb clip on.
 
They may have been powder coated. Cut one in half, if you can score the surface easily with your thumb nail then you have pure lead with a BHN of 5-6. Ideal for muzzleloading but you want something harder for smokeless.
 
Any lead is good lead. I had some given to me and I used it for 1 casting session for 1 boolit. They worked well.
One thing to remember, your literally throwing the lead away.
 
If you can find someone with a lead hardness tester, make a test boolit and have it tested. Then you know.

I have made weights for dive shops from range recovery.
 
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