dolfinwriter
08-02-2020, 01:44 PM
Just bear with me and humor my "What-If..." just for a minute--Has anyone made .224 bullet cores from pewter and then jacketed them with 22LR cases? I know the question coming is "Why would you want to?"
The answer to that is for that situation we hopefully never get to where that's all that's left. I'm going to set up an extruding press after we land in Kansas to make lead wire for bullet cores among other things, but I want to try this if no one else has.
I have a lot of lead. I even have lead ingots weighing down our kitchen trash can because we have a garbage eating four-legged moron (beagle), who has pulled the trash can over to get at what's in it.
But I also have a lot of pewter that I've scrounged out of thrift shops and yard sales. And I'm keeping some of the pewter stuff in the house as picture frames, candle sticks, etc.
Alternatively, has anyone tried making shot from pewter? If the settlers of Boonesborough in fact melt down anything pewter in desperation to make musket balls while under siege by Blackfish and the Shawnee... not that it's ideal, but they were desperate.
Just thinking today about a last resort situation, while I'm packing stuff up for our move. First I came across another tub with camping and emergency stuff in it like propane bottles, batteries, a radio, etc. And then I got to all this pewter in plastic tubs on the back patio. I'm going to need to do a melt session soon to reduce the bulk of those pitchers and plates and candle holders into ingots, but pack the other stuff for moving.
The answer to that is for that situation we hopefully never get to where that's all that's left. I'm going to set up an extruding press after we land in Kansas to make lead wire for bullet cores among other things, but I want to try this if no one else has.
I have a lot of lead. I even have lead ingots weighing down our kitchen trash can because we have a garbage eating four-legged moron (beagle), who has pulled the trash can over to get at what's in it.
But I also have a lot of pewter that I've scrounged out of thrift shops and yard sales. And I'm keeping some of the pewter stuff in the house as picture frames, candle sticks, etc.
Alternatively, has anyone tried making shot from pewter? If the settlers of Boonesborough in fact melt down anything pewter in desperation to make musket balls while under siege by Blackfish and the Shawnee... not that it's ideal, but they were desperate.
Just thinking today about a last resort situation, while I'm packing stuff up for our move. First I came across another tub with camping and emergency stuff in it like propane bottles, batteries, a radio, etc. And then I got to all this pewter in plastic tubs on the back patio. I'm going to need to do a melt session soon to reduce the bulk of those pitchers and plates and candle holders into ingots, but pack the other stuff for moving.