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RENCORP
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castboolits.com - your invaluable resource for more knowledge on lead reloading than you will know what to do with.
As for your roofing lead, melting it down is step number one. Fluxing the lead is step two.
Easy way to flux - put a tea light on top of the lead, let it melt, toss in a handful of sawdust, light it on fire. Let it burn out, stir. The carbonized sawdust attracts the impurities in the lead.
Use the largest stainless steel fine screen strainer you can easily scoop all od the dross out of your pot with, have a disposable hard surface near the melting pot you can knock all of the crap you screen off out of the pot. This is the stuff you want to pour into molds like muffin tins for re-use later as required.
Voila, you have clean fluxed lead you can use as is for smooth bore muzzle loaders, and also the foundation for creating alloys using small amounts of tin and antimony to harden the lead for use in conventional pistol and rifle cartridges.
Lead bullets for standard cartridges usually have to be cast slightly larger than the caliber, then resized by pressing them through a die on a specialty press called - a re-sizer. Lyman makes the best one available.
Using gas checks installed on lead bullets will allow for respectable velocities without lead fouling even in 357, 44 mag, 308, and 30 06, for example.
Welcome to a universe of specialty reloading skills and equipment - fascinating, and with a huge following even today.
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