Long time lurker, first time poster. Have been loading commercial cast boolits for quite a while and thinking about trying my hand at casting. Have an almost unlimited supply of range scrap and lead splatter from the pistol bay at my gun club. Looks like this:
We have sandy soil and its easy to sift the large boolit slugs from the sand in a regular sifter, and we have some steel targets hanging inside tires I can scoop the splattered lead from. The pic is about 70lbs of scrap, a little over half a 5 gal bucket, pretty clean. My question, would this make a decent cast boolit to shoot at moderate speeds in 9mm and 40. I would probably be looking at 950-1000 FPS in 9, and 850-900 FPS in 40. If all goes well would probably cast for .45 also.
I shoot competitive pistol matches, IDPA and Steel Challenge, but also NRA Action Pistol/Bianchi cup style matches where accuracy is very important. I would be coating the bullets instead of running traditional lube. Most likely with the PC from smoke here on the forum, but thats still to be determined.
Thanks for any help. I hope I have provided enough info to get a good answer. If it helps, I believe 99.9% of the lead is from pistol bullets that have flattened/deformed/exploded against steel.