Handgun Boolit Alloy ?

[6mm250]

I'm new at this here boolit casting.
I have smelted down a bunch of the good old timey clip on wheel weights & got me some nice clean ingots (several hundred lbs)
I also have some dead soft lead (several hundred lbs)
Plus I have a few lbs of pewter.

I want to make plinking boolits for 38/357 , 41 & 44 mag , 45 , etc.

Velocities of my loads will top out in the 1000-1100 fps range.

Bearing in mind that the WW metal will be the hardest to replace ;

What would be a good alloy that I can make out of the material that I have on hand ?


Thanks


Mike

[JWFilips]

Hello,
While I'm just starting out and only have done a few casting sessions Your request is similar to what I was looking for also. But I know you will get lots of help from the folks here.

If You download the BHN hardness calculator on this forum Thread at http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?105952-Lead-alloy-calculators&highlight=BHN+calculator You can come up with you own mixes.
I wanted light target loads with my 357 mag also & I picked a mix that gave me a BHN of 12/13 however I still think the more knowledgeable people here would even go softer. So I am going to try for BHN 10. I was shooting Commercaial cast @ BHN 18 and they were way too hard for light loads (Under 1000 fps)
Hope this helps