CWLONGSHOT
Well-Known Member
I discovered I have access to a friend of a friend who owns a company who deals with lead. Now he dosent know bullets or BHN or know lino manynof the names we have for our alloys and mixes. He knows chemical content. He has offered to test a lead hardness I like and produce me ingots in that composition. IE that hardness.
I was excessively low on soft lead and he really helped me in that regard last night. In speaking with him afterwards he has Antimony paste. (?). He is gonna give to me today. He wants melt with the pure he gave me and try, then add more try, until I get what Im wanting.
He said its a 6% antimony.... So the product he is giving me is pretty darn hard. Im gonna breaknout my old 10# pot. (Its clean and better suited for small qualtities Ill be "testing")
Myquestion is whats a good target to start at? Meaning a pound of pure and a ounce of 6% or 6 oz of 6%??
My target is actually two targets. First good alloy for pistol say maybe 9/10 BHN and 15/16 BHN. (Pistol/low velocity pressure and Rifle moderate vel and pressure) Personally speaking I have no use for very much at all over 2000 fps. If I do Ill use jacketed. Cast for me is lower cost fun and lower vel pressure.
As a side note Something I already have "down" is my 20:1 alloy I like for my HP bullets in handgun velocities (under 1200 fps)
Thanks guys!
For some reason wrapping my head around this escapes me.
I thought you might appreciate the pic he sent me with the quote " Is this enough?"
I was excessively low on soft lead and he really helped me in that regard last night. In speaking with him afterwards he has Antimony paste. (?). He is gonna give to me today. He wants melt with the pure he gave me and try, then add more try, until I get what Im wanting.
He said its a 6% antimony.... So the product he is giving me is pretty darn hard. Im gonna breaknout my old 10# pot. (Its clean and better suited for small qualtities Ill be "testing")
Myquestion is whats a good target to start at? Meaning a pound of pure and a ounce of 6% or 6 oz of 6%??
My target is actually two targets. First good alloy for pistol say maybe 9/10 BHN and 15/16 BHN. (Pistol/low velocity pressure and Rifle moderate vel and pressure) Personally speaking I have no use for very much at all over 2000 fps. If I do Ill use jacketed. Cast for me is lower cost fun and lower vel pressure.
As a side note Something I already have "down" is my 20:1 alloy I like for my HP bullets in handgun velocities (under 1200 fps)
Thanks guys!
For some reason wrapping my head around this escapes me.
I thought you might appreciate the pic he sent me with the quote " Is this enough?"