Thanks for that great tip!
What do the letters in COWW mean? I figured out the WW = Wheel Weights. I googled it and didn't find the answer, but it is before noon so my web search skills are still sleepy.
I picked up the "150 to 200" lbs of scrap soft lead last week. It ended up being 460 pounds! The back end of my SUV was sagging a bit. It was mostly pure lead sheets from X-Ray room walls, but there was some roofing lead in there as well, which is usually pure lead. The roofing lead is very clean so I plan to use that first and won't cast it into ingots. I can easily cut strips with tin snips that replenish a fair amount of cast 30 cal NOE 55 HPs and it doesn't drop the pot temp enough to matter, like adding a 1 lb ingot does with my small Lee pot. No need to flux every time if I don't dunk it in too deep. It made nicely formed slugs that shoot well out of my Gauntlet 2 30 on my indoor 16 yard range. The group on the right was 7 shots with the smaller hollow point pin. The one on the left is the "control" group, 5 shots, 44.8 grain FX/JSB Pellets. The deeper hollow point NOE shoots about the same in the Gauntlet, but the flat tip pin seems to open groups up a bit. The FX M3 700mm I am borrowing shot the hard cast slugs better than the soft ones.
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