  A novel method to prepare bulk Fe(Se0.5Te0.5) samples is presented, based on
a melting process and a subsequent annealing treatment. With respect to the
standard sintering technique, it produces much more homogeneous and denser
samples, characterized by large and well interconnected grains. The resulting
samples exhibit optimal critical temperature values, sharp resistive and
magnetic transitions, large magnetic hysteresis loops and high upper critical
fields are observed. Interestingly, the global critical current density is much
enhanced as compared to the values reported in literature for bulk samples of
the same 11 family, reaching about 103 A/cm2 at zero field at 4.2 K as assessed
by magnetic, transport and magneto-optical techniques. Even more importantly,
its field dependence turns out to be very weak, such that at \mu_{0}H = 7 T it
is suppressed only by a factor \sim2.
