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DHD

Active Member
I pour about 3: 16/1 for PP BPCR, 20/1 for BPCR and some revolver loads, and then COWW and pure @ 2/1 for revolvers. Since I have so much tin, I'll make sure my revolver alloy stays pretty rich.

I only ladel cast so it's an easy matter for me to just drop out the huge ingot after it's cold, label it with what it is, and store it for next time. It's also a good excuse to clean the ingot and pot between alloys. There's always some stuff that can be blown off with the air hose. I average about 300-400 lbs of each on hand and will replenish when the wife isn't looking. She wonders if I'll ever use all of that "stuff". My son has zero interest in it....
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
75% of my casting gets done with 92/6/2. For Loverin bullets, I add about 10 oz. of tin to a 20# melt to make a renegade Lyman #2 alloy. Gotta tell ya, Lyman #2 casts NICE. If tin didn't cost the earth to obtain, Ly #2 would get a lot more usage at my house. 30/1 gets some casting for black-powder era revolver and rifle bullets and 38 Special. I have done some pure lead casting for 38 S&W and 38 Special, and it has shot well. I haven't fired black powder in close to 10 years.

My base stocks are unalloyed lead--Linotype--Monotype--and tin rods (from Rotometals).
 
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USSR

Finger Lakes Region of NY
Amazed at how many guys who, like me, have 2 or 3 alloys that they use regularly. My sources of various lead to make into my alloys are: COWW, pure lead (from sheeting and pipes), and linotype. I bump up the tin content with cast off solder that turns up occasionally in the lead bin at my local scrap yard. Oh, and today I received a very nice package containing 10 pounds of 99.5 Sn/0.5 Ag bars that I got for $8 per pound. How'd I do?:)

Don
 

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Wheel weights. I don’t shoot competition so I refuse to spend money for lead that I’m throwing down range. I cast for myself and son and he casts with too so it’s a father son time together thing. He’s heading 700 miles away to college this August with required summer internships every year. He’ll be mostly gone for 4.5 years so I’m doing everything he wants to do for the next... crap 3 months... Holy crap 18 years has gone by fast... Anyways, I had 6 5gallon buckets of wheel weights and that lead does everything we need to have fun experimenting and shooting for no more cost than the time to cast.

BB