This has turned into a pissin match.
Since I've joined this community, up untill following this thread I've seen nothing but good ideas and helpful people. It has given me a lot of encouragement and driven me to think outside of the copper jackets I've lived by the last 15 years.
I like to run with ideas and find cheaper or faster ways to accomplish the goal. In this case, its avoiding expensive jacketed rounds, by scrounging for things I can use to make my own so I can shoot more for less and still try to be accurate. The more I save on bullets, the more I can spend on more guns.
With that in mind, avoiding expensive tooling for swaging, high priced babbit or having to purchase lead is what its about to me. Find a way to do it myself or source it locally for less. Sure I have some expensive equipment, but its because I like doing things myself.
In post #489 it was suggested that babbit might just be easier. I'm with Popper on finding a way to avoid being a sheep in the heard and purchasing babbit like everyone suggests. Id rather find a way I can do it myself than having to rely on others.
Everyone I know suggests just purchasing nosslers. With that sort of thinking, this forum would be a lot smaller.
If copper sulfate yields an alloy that shoots better, great! Lets explore it. Maybe it does add copper, maybe its something else, but if it improves performance and there is no test yet to prove or disprove contents, until someone does the tests, there is room for further experimentation. If it ends up not adding copper, but still shows performance improvements, lets move it to its own thread and further research the idea. If it does add copper, lets move forward. But lets not be so discouraging and shoot each others ideas down. The earth isn't flat, and Act 10 didn't ruin Wisconsin.
I've been experimenting with my own ways to add copper, I'm fairly sure I have 0.2% and 1.0% alloys, and have cast both with my Lee bottom pour. Yes the temps are a bit higher, but I've had no problems casting either of them. Maybe the problems with clogged nossels is a result of the babbit?
Being somewhat new territory, we don't know for sure how the combinations of proportions of these metals will behave, or exactly whats all in the alloy for sure unless it is tested, by shooting and maybe later by lab testing if worth it.
It does seem to me that the higher % of Cu results in slower age hardening. So I'm sitting on my cast rnds for a while yet.