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[bisley45]

I am trying to make me some good hunting boolits. what I am going to try is 50% clip on w-w and 50% stickon w-w. will this make a good hunting boolit for deer. I think 100% clip on W-W are to hard what do you all think.

[targetshootr]

My straight ww are about 12 bhn which some people push to 1200 fps or more. I'd save the pure lead or swap it for ww.

[Gunslinger]

I kind of depends on whether you want expansion or not?? If you want your boolit to expand then yes a 50/50 blend is doable. If you're shooting a boolit with a wide meplat and want it to go through the animal leaving a wound canal then you should water quench your boolits.

[Larry Gibson]

The common alloy for softer, expanding cast bullets seems to be 50/50 WW/lead. You can push it to 2000 fps or so and maintain hunting accuracy. Particularly if you clean the barrel every 5-7 shots. I'm prone to use it these days myself and will be using it with the RCBS 35-200-FN out of my M91 Argentine with a .35 Remington barrel on it this November. I'll be on a Texas deer/hog hunt. I will probably use that alloy in my .41 Ruger Bisley and M94 30-30 also as I can shoot 4 animals and maybe a couple culls.

Larry Gibson

[jdgabbard]

Depends on the application and boolit design. Give us a few more details, like if it has a large meplat or a narrow one, hollow point or not, ect... Then we can give you a better answer.

[44man]

Caliber is important. The .44, .45 and .475 are fine with straight water dropped WW's and even harder. Too fast or too small means expansion is needed but even the ones I listed will be just fine with 50-50.
Go for it.
It is a balance between leading, boolit deformation in the gun and affect on game.
Nothing better then a big, heavy, slow pure lead projectile but with modern guns and powders you need to make the gun perform first.
50-50 is a good compromise.

[bisley45]

thanks for all the replays
sorry I did not explain my self better I will be using a 300gr lee in my bisley 45 or my redhawk 45 at about 1000-1200

[runfiverun]

ww's and 25% lead is what i use, about 1% tin added for help.
around 18-19 grs of 2400 has done nicely on whitetails.
i can't confirm that except for the pictures, but i can confirm it works on mule deer in the 250-300 lb range just fine.
it'll kill a pig and a cow too i can confirm that, well not now they got ate but i gots witnesses.
oh yeah 10 grs of unique will get you about there too.

[MtGun44]

With that boolit at 1000-1200 fps you will never recover a
boolit on any shot unless maybe on a pure end to end shot.

No expansion is needed so do what you want with hardness for
convenience, mold fillout, low leading and accy.

You will drill a .45 cal hole all the way thru the animal and if you
locate that hole so that it intesects something important, you
will have a DRT deer. Placement is the key, not alloy.

Bill

[XWrench3]

With no experience shooting animals yet with cast only boolits, i honestly can not say. I do know that straight wheel weights, especially ones that are water dropped, are just to hard to expand. Even at full house 44 mag velocities. I would certainly try your 50-50 mix. Get some magazines, or phone books, wet them down, and shoot into them. Supposedly, that is close to flesh. I have always been of the opinion that for anything but dangerous game, the boolit (or bullet) needs to expand. Yes, an animal will die with a hole punched straight through it. But not nearly as fast as one that is hit in the same spot (unless it is spine or brain) where the boolit expands, and causes much more damage and delivers more hydraulic shock. I have to start weaning down the amount of ww in my boolits as well. Your on the right track in my opinion, i just can not offer you any real world experience to help you. Sorry.

[bisley45]

thanks all I think I will do some testing