Originally Posted by
nicholst55
Back in the middle of the last century, many handgunners cast bullets out of Linotype. I believe that it was the favored alloy, based on what I recall from reading gun rags of the era. It was much more easily available back then, due to the prevalence of offset printing presses. I suspect that many used it because they thought that a harder alloy was needed to reduce or eliminate leading, but that's just conjecture on my part. A lot of those guys already knew a lot of the information that we have 'learned,' or rediscovered.