honestly if i can run away with only one layer while not getting any leading , i'm a starter. i don't care the round is pretty or not. all i want is a boolit that will leaves 0 lead in my barrel .
the only factor i'm still not sure about is water quenching ; of course, like many, i'm water quenching to add to the hardness level of my boolits, but i hear quenching can contaminate the boolits to the point where hi tek doesn't work correctly. not sure but i'm guessing that if the water is exempt of contaminants,it shouldn't be a problem........this being a grey zone to me .
i'm also wondering if the baking part in the hi tek process may bring some more hardness to my boolits. i know heat treating pros and cons is an eternal debate among the casting community,but if in fact heat treating has the same effect on the hardness than water quenching, then i don't see the point of it anymore because the baking process has the same effect than water quenching.
i never owned a revolver.i'm mostly in semi autos, but if i had to own one, it would be this one.
with S&W, one must pick the right frame (n,j,k,a) for how hot you intend to load .
with ruger it is simple. the light stuff for the SP101's,and the rest has to get shot by the GP series.
i«,m also appealed by the red hawk series in .357 as well.
i know one day i will own one of them ruger tanks....