The unpainted SOWW's are almost pure lead. The painted ones are about the same as COWW's. Most of the time you'll see TAW or Tape-A-Weight stamped in the surface of the ones you want for cap and ball.
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The unpainted SOWW's are almost pure lead. The painted ones are about the same as COWW's. Most of the time you'll see TAW or Tape-A-Weight stamped in the surface of the ones you want for cap and ball.
If you cast balls out of something harder than soft lead you will wish you hadn't.
At least 2 problems occur.
1 - you break your loading lever trying to force the balls into the cylinder.
2 - you cast small enough that the balls are not a tight fit in the cylinder, and you can have chain fires. And poor accuracy too.
Stick with known soft lead. Most plumbing lead is great stuff. Some sheet lead is soft lead. SOME of the stick-on wheel weights are soft enough. NONE of the clip-on wheel weights will do.
Good luck, garrisonjoe
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