Estate Sale Find

Michael

Michael

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A friend gave me a couple just like those several years ago in exchange for cleaning up a rifle that had been neglected a bit. He had print shop and went digital or something like that. He told me they were linotype, I stood them up in corner one day and one of them fell over on the shop floor and broke into 3 pieces.
 
Missionary

Missionary

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10-15 to 1 as served us well with any rifle loading..... Espeially if we water drop..
But with PC on the cast 20-1 (or no lino) works good.
But then we have alot of WW to use,
 
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CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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My range scrap is 22 RF bullets. It runs 10/11 BHN. So I season that with super hard to just a bit harder then Powder coat. As a general alloy. Softer is straight RS W/tin. I have shot this powder coated to 2000 in rifles with zero bullet fouling.

In typical Hand gun softer and in a typical rifle lil harder. Again general-purpose alloy.

But a slow HP (380/45acp) will be pure lead/tin/splash super hard seeking about 8/9BHN seeking 850ish fps

A magnum hp (smaller cav) I love 20:1 seeking 1200 fps

Rifle hp (small) I like COWW equivalent. 13/15bhn seeking 1800 fps

A WFN bullet I will usually cast harder say Lyman #2 range. As expansion isn't the goal.

A Hunting rifle bullet seeking 1850 fps. Again COWW+ side 15 BHN.

Personally I dont see much COWW so I "make" mine with RS/Lino/Superhard/Tin as needed. (Not all those alloys)

But across the board Powder Coat allows softer alloys. It also ELIMINATES my need for a GC on a pistol bullet. I will use a GC on any bullet shank designed for them.

CW
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

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Guy at the club has a really nice High Wall in .32-40 that always shot like a champ. A couple weeks ago his accuracy went to Hell and he ran a patch down the bore. It came out looking like he'd run it across a machine shop floor, only the splinters were lead. They were long, maybe 1/2" and surrounded the patch. So, he cleaned the barrel and fired a couple more rounds. Pushed another patch thru and damn if it did not look as bad. From the amount on the patch, it looked like 1/4 of the bullet was staying in the barrel.

He went home and tested the hardness of his bullet. They were rock hard. It appears that the mix in his lead pot got away from him. Probably dumped in something with antimony and thought it was pure lead. Free lead can be a double-edged sword.

He cast up some new bullets and the accuracy returned.
 
JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
Rex said:
LONGSHOT, what ratio to lead do you mix those weights? I've tried 50-50 and that seemed to work but I'd like to go softer if I can get away with it.
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There are some recipes here, scroll halfway down the page.

50-50 gives you an SB percentage around 8
33% lino gives you an SB percentage around 6

Years back, before I did a swap for a large quantity of 94-3-3, I would mix my COWW with 20% lino for Rifle or hot Mag Pistol loads.
 
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Petrol & Powder

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I mostly use Linotype to slightly handen pure lead to get something around 10-11 BHn. So a little bit goes a long way for my needs.
Regardless of your end use, that's a great find!
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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I lay one on the floor. Then drop the ones I need right on top across the one on the floor. I have about 1500 lbs of these from when my FIL past away. What I don't have is a bunch of softer lead to cut it down with. But I have not been shooting no where near what I used to. So what I have will do me for a long time. Probably more than I will ever use.

I have to get off my butt. I do have about 200lbs of sheet lead I need to smelt. But my turkey fryer bit the dust over the winter. I just have to get a new hose.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Linotype will make good plinkers is you size they right and don't try to shoot hot loads. Lino WC's are just fine at 2.7 grains of Bullseye.
 
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