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[garbear]

I have been casting straight WW for my 357, and pure soft lead for my REAL boolits. Okay here is the question. I am getting a 300-452 sabot mold from BRP and He suggested casting 50/50 WW and PB in this mold. My question is is the 50 50 ratio by weight or is there a sure fire way to guess or at least guess and be close enough. I don't own a scale. I have keep the ww separate from my soft lead. and it smelted ready to cast. These boolits are going into a mmp sabot and shot out of my omega X7.

Thanks
Garbear

[clodhopper]

If your bullet metals are in ingots, just add an equal number of each type ingots to the melt to get a 50/50 alloy.

[garbear]

Thanks I was thinking in that direction but wanted to make sure before I cast a bunch and mess it up.

[454PB]

If you're going to seriously get into casting, you're going to need some scales.

I suggest hitting the thrift shops and look for some baby scales. Mine go to 25 pounds, and are amazingly accurate.

[Moonie]

My pure are in 1lb ingots and my WW are in 2lb, I do 2 to 1, figure they are close enough.

Do need to do some expansion tests with my 200gr 45 Mihec HP boolits with that alloy though.

[cajun shooter]

You can buy 50lb postal scales off of flea bay for under $30. If you stay in casting you will need one for weighing alloys to lead purchase from another person. A scale and a hardness tester are tools that you need to make life much easier.