If you can not talk the local tire shops into donating lead for "fishing weights" (politically safe) then Ebay will probably be your best bet for lead which is already smelted and fluxed into ingots...
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Type: Posts; User: WILDMAN
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If you can not talk the local tire shops into donating lead for "fishing weights" (politically safe) then Ebay will probably be your best bet for lead which is already smelted and fluxed into ingots...
The only powders I have tried are Titegroup and AM Sel. My casting is done using strictly wheel weights with the occasional dive weight or anode smelted with them.
:redneck: Took me awhile to...
I have the Lee 356-125-2R 6 cavity mold. It is actually casting about 130 and prove to be very accurate in the Glocks using American Select. I will contact Lee about the sprue plate handle and cam....
I have a Lee 6 cavity mold that I starting using to cast 9mm to feed a couple of Glocks for Steel Plate and USPSA events. The problem is I broke the sprue handle and cam due to the sprueplate getting...
| BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
| BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
| BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
| C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
| HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
| PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
| LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
| GC | Gas Check |