OK I have a Lee truncated cone flat point mold for my Sig P220. I want to use straight WW and have molded only about 200 bullets yesterday. I have been reloading for a while but just got into rolling my own bullets. I want a general purpose round for plinking and to be able to make up some ammo to keep on hand for rainy days. I noticed when I cast the bullets they look fine but when I weighed them they are 245gr instead of 230. I know its because the WW only setup. I am unsure of how to and how much tin solder to use or where to get it for that matter. I am gonna use a muffin pan to make my ingots. I melt the WW use pliers to get out the clips and none lead weights. I then pour the lead into the muffin pan to make my own ingots. I used 4 of them to cast roughly the 200 bullets I made. Anyway on with the problem or is it? I am wanting to know if I can use the 245gr bullets for general purpose plinking. I shoot alot and dont wanna destroy my P220 with too heavy bullets. I have heard that anything over 230gr will damage my pistol and I dont want that. So I come before Cast Boolit shooters who have put a few million down range to get the correct info cause I know alot of stuff online is BULL. If I mix solder to my WW how much do I use and where do I get it or am I safe with using a 245gr bullet and using the load data in my speer #12 manual. Heres the man info. they used a sig P220 for their 45 auto tests. they used a 260gr semi jacketed soft point and it sits atop 5.8gr of unique and 6.3gr as a max. they also list green dot which I have .
260gr soft point-unique-5.8gr-752fps OR
260gr soft point-greendot-5.3gr-751fps
These are just a few listed but I was gonna use the above data to shoot the 245gr casts I made and I am sure the pressure will be lower with the 15gr lighter bullet. Any info or incite will help. Basically after my intense rambling. Am I OK to shoot the 245gr bullets from a sig p220 on a regular basis say 500 or so a month. Let me know what you think.