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Freightman
07-03-2008, 06:45 PM
I have a bunch of range scrap and needed some real soft lead, so I picked a pot of the jacketed bullets out and smelted them down and the lead is very soft. The cast of which the scrap is about 80+% at the pistol berm is considerably harder.
So I am going to pick out a lot of the Jacketed and build up some soft lead.

targetshootr
07-03-2008, 07:16 PM
What will you do with the soft lead? I've got a bunch but don't have a use for it.

wills
07-03-2008, 09:14 PM
What will you do with the soft lead? I've got a bunch but don't have a use for it.

Muzzle Loaders and BPCR

ChuckS1
07-03-2008, 09:17 PM
Doesn't this work for subsonic loads?

compass will
07-03-2008, 10:14 PM
My brother keeps bringing me home lead pipe. I think I am sitting on around 100 lbs. I smelt it with the stick on wheel weights.

I guess I could use that 405 Grain hollow base Lee bullet in the 45-70 with straight lead (and smokeless powder)? Or should I add in some wheel weight?
Or should I tried it for lino for my 22-250 project?

Freightman
07-04-2008, 10:03 AM
BP have a 58 cal HB mould that uses a lot of the pure stuff like 13-14 to the pound, if it is as hard a W-W the accuracy isn't there but with soft it is great. This is the origional miniball design.Then I have a 54 cal that likes the soft stuff both are big users of lead.

Bent Ramrod
07-04-2008, 03:03 PM
Jacketed bullet cores are a little bit harder than pure lead, but if you can load them into muzzleloaders and c&b pistols without straining, they work. They really shine, as wills says, for BPCR boolits and I like them for hollow point boolits for pistols also. I keep all my jacketed scrap separate from the cast and wheelweights and use them exclusively for these applications.