rabbit, I can give you a quick method to seperate sand and stones from shot. This is a method that I use. Put your sand shot mix in a 5 gallon bucket. You will need some help with this. Slowly poor the mix from a comfortable height and have some one blow a stream of air from a leaf blower thrue the cascading mix and the sand and stones will blow out of the stream leaving shot to fall in the bucket. You may need to do this more than once. Put an amount in the bucket that you can comfortably handle. Some experimentation will tweek it so it works good. One buddy made a device that blows the debris out with a fan as the shot falls in a thin steam. We all make different things because we are fabricators or welders and have access to materials. We then tumble the shot with a fan on it to remove the oxide then tumble some more with graphite. This is done in a cheap cement mixer. One of my buddies recently went out himself with a strong blower that blew the shot along the ground until it formed in piles. Of course the sand blew away leaving mostly shot. In two hours he picked up EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS! I think that was worth a trip to the range. I am constantly hearing how this shot is only good for skeet and spreaders. WRONG! I have seen some shooters bust 60 yd clays consistently with reclaimed shot. I can't do that with new shot.
