Roofing lead roll

[Palmtreee]

I have a 40lb roll of roofing lead that a friend in contruction gave me, Is it okay to melt for bullets? Anyone ever use it?
Thank for the help.

[KCSO]

That is almost pure lead and wil be great for muzzleloader balls as is. If you want to use it for a ctg gun you will want to add tin and wheel weighs. The Lyman cast bullet hand book has several formulas for alloys but if you melt up a batch in a 10 pound pot you would want about 6 pounds of lead, 3 1/2 pounds of wheel weights and 1/2 of tin for a soft castable alloy. For a harder aloy for revlover slugs go with more wheel weights than pure lead. I save all my pure lead for M/l balls.

[Lefty Dude]

Very nice clean lead.
My Son-in-Law and I cast close to 1000 .451 lead balls, Sunday afternoon with Roofing lead.
I traded for 20# of the stuff. We usually use stick-on wheel weights which are also pure lead.
This is a good time here in Arizona for Casting & Smelting of boolets & balls. Temperature was 50-55 degrees and sunny. We have close to a ton of WW's to Smelt in ingots of one pound each this Winter. He works for a Chevy store and gets the WW's from the Tire Dept. Guy. Kinda helps since he is the Service Manager.

Xray room lead also is nice pure clean lead. I got some several years ago when a local Hospital was re-modeling the Xray Dept. The walls are lined with lead sheets under the dry-wall.

If you are going to make hard cast bullets, trade it pound for pound to a Cap & Ball shooter, they need and use pure lead.

[.45colt]

Yep if You know someone in construction it pays to buy Them a Beer now and then. An extended Family member was working on a crew at a local hospital. called Me up to come get some lead from an x-ray room tearout. I now have 470lb of lead waiting for some attention. . It should Keep Me busy.

[Old Ironsights]

...If you are going to make hard cast bullets, trade it pound for pound to a Cap & Ball shooter, they need and use pure lead.

+1000!!!!

Please Please Please don't blend/alloy it. Pure Lead is far harder to get than Wheel Weights (for now). Find a Muzzleloading Club and start asking for offers .