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Freightman
03-21-2007, 10:28 AM
I bought some "imbossing" lead from a dealer and haven't thought much about it until I remembered it under my bench. I was fixing to cast some 8mm boolits with a new mold when I remembered it so I added 3/4# to my mix which is mostley range scrap cast boolits. It filled out better than I have ever had with no effort and the boolits ar very hard as it doesn't scratch with my thumb nail and a knife blade leaves very little in the way of a scratch. The boolits are the absolute smoothest I have ever seen. What have I got?
I cast them at 750 and it didn't take but one drop to start great boolits. They are to hard to run through a LEE .323 sizer without more effort than I am going to put out and I have a HD RCBS press that can load 50BMG.

Buckshot
03-22-2007, 01:37 AM
..............What is embossing lead?

.............Buckshot

OLPDon
03-22-2007, 11:53 AM
Buckshot:
Just a guess but would say its the same as used for fancy wine and Gray Goose Vodka seal. Mostly tin would explain great fillout.
Don

Freightman
03-22-2007, 03:33 PM
I guess I will save it then!

Buckshot
03-23-2007, 07:09 AM
.............And now I know :-) Thanks!

............Buckshot