[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by davemac

I think the majority of the metal work has just rusted down, the safety sheets are mostly in place. The bullets I found never hit the target, but this area. Or stuff bouncing off as you say.

Sorry Dave, but those bullets never hit those plates, those bullets in your picure have been struck many times by other bullets, you can see that from the deformation, I've dug 1000's of bullets out of backstops at Diggle, melted the lead out of them, for reloads, proper bullet metal has a 5% antimony content for hardness, so I added 2% tin which helped to lubricate my cast bullets down the bore & prevented fouling. That mix of bullet metal worked really well in my old black powder Remington Revolver, most of it ended up in the back stop on the pistol range back up at Diggle.