MikeS
05-20-2011, 01:56 AM
Hi All.
I have a Ruger Old Army muzzle loading revolver, and I bought the Lee mould for it (456-220-1R). I got the mould when I first started casting, and cast about 100 boolits using stick on wheel weights. The thing is I had maybe 1/2" of clip on wheel weights in the pot (a Lyman 10# Big Dipper), and I just checked one of the boolits I cast and it was fairly hard, using the pencil method it was a 3B pencil hardness which is supposedly around 10BHN. I understand why with a true muzzle loader you want a really soft boolit, but the revolver isn't truly a muzzle loader as you're loading the boolits into the cylinder not down the bore. So I was wondering, will these boolits be OK, or should I melt them down and recast them with pure lead?
I have a Ruger Old Army muzzle loading revolver, and I bought the Lee mould for it (456-220-1R). I got the mould when I first started casting, and cast about 100 boolits using stick on wheel weights. The thing is I had maybe 1/2" of clip on wheel weights in the pot (a Lyman 10# Big Dipper), and I just checked one of the boolits I cast and it was fairly hard, using the pencil method it was a 3B pencil hardness which is supposedly around 10BHN. I understand why with a true muzzle loader you want a really soft boolit, but the revolver isn't truly a muzzle loader as you're loading the boolits into the cylinder not down the bore. So I was wondering, will these boolits be OK, or should I melt them down and recast them with pure lead?