It's been on my mind for a while now. Ever since I mixed up a 50/50 (coww and pure) mix and added 2% pewter to the total and ended up with a BH of 10.5. If you have followed some my past threads I tried to make 16:1, adding a pound of pewter to 16 lbs of pure lead and ended up with a BH of 7.5. I'm chalking the soft results up to using pewter picture frames in my pewter melt that must have had a lot more lead content in them. I'm going to retry 16:1 using all hallmark food service items and retest the BH to see if it gets me around 11 BH one of these days.
My question is if 50/50 is 10.5 BH and 16:1 is 11 what is the advantage of one over the other? I would assume I would get almost exactly the same expansion, weight retention, and penatration when firing the same boolits at the exact same velocity and saving a little pewter(tin) to boot?