I heat treat some of my wheel-weight alloy rifle bullets. To do it, I stand each of the bullets on their base on a flat metal pan and place them in a 450 F heated oven for an hour. I then remove the hot bullets and immediately dump the pan into a pail filled with water. Regardless of how careful I am, some of the bullets fall over while I am standing them up like solders on the pan, placing them in the oven or removing them from the oven prior to quenching. I am wondering how others heat treat? Can I just put all the bullets in a gob in a metal strainer for the heat treatment or will the heat and pressure from the other bullets deform the others? What do you do?
