My club has an indoor range with lots of lead in the backstop. I took some home and ran it through my Lee pot and the results were very satisfying and productive. The pile of ingots in the pic took me two, two hour sessions to produce. And that time goes from plug-in to clean-up.
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What is the production rate? About 10 pounds an hour?
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Yea. Give or take. It's enough to keep me shooting.
I thought it would clog up the pot, but it didn't. It worked way better than expected. I drained the last pot completely and fluxed (with wax) and scraped down the sides and now I've got a bunch of lead and a cleaned pot to boot!
I bought a slotted spoon from Goodwill and that worked better than the unslotted spoon I was using.
There was a fair amount of dirt and wood slivers mixed in with that lead but the Lee pot handled it without a hitch. I got two soup cans of dross off of that amount of ingots. I mix the dross with plaster before pitching it.
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