bismuth substitutes for lead

[Soundguy]

Anyone doing lead free bullets with bismuth?

I've seen a few people selling this for bullet casting.

Any experiences?

thanks

[Harter66]

It's been a long time since I had much to do with bismuth . Then it was for shot .
What I do remember about it is that it was brittle and often a 1/3 or more would be crushed and stay in the wads .
I know they bumped up the tin content of the shot and it was better .
I've read here that it was used but ultimately i think only as target metal . Again it's been a while it seems like it needed 30% or more tin to be really useful as a lead substitute for bullets .

As much as I hate the phrase , a local search will pull several threads about it with 1 running nearly a yr with lots of testing .

[Soundguy]

I must have used poor search words, didn't get much other than an add for sale.

[NyFirefighter357]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/google.php?cx=partner-pub-6216953551359885%3A1942134700&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=bismuth&sa.x=8&sa.y=11

[Soundguy]

Finaly found something other than adds, thanks.