super hard and wheel weights
i’m looking to make bullets with BHN of 15 to shoot out of my mosin. starting out i want to try use unique first and stay between 1300 fps and 1500 fps. I have wheel weights, pure lead and 5 lbs of super hard alloy from roto metals. i have a 20 lbs lee pot. using the wheel weights i’m thinking if i used 19 lbs of wheel weights and 1.0 lbs of the super hard so i would think should be close to 15 bhn? if i was using the pure lead i would have to use 1.5 lbs ? does this sound in the ball park ?
i don’t have a lab top or computer and i can’t get the alloy calculator to work on my phone.
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super hard and wheel weights
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Originally Posted by
Rickf1985
The 19 to 1 will give you 12.7 BHN. 19 to 3 will give you 14.9 according to the calculator. Pure lead will take you in another direction.
using wheel weights and super hard and amounts that will fit in your pot you can go with 15 to 2.5 which will give you 15 bhn.
15 lbs. of pure lead to 4.5 lbs of Superhard will also give you 15 BHM but keep in mind that the calculator is using 8.6 as a figure for pure lead. I just discussed this in a recent post on here. So it will get you in the ball park and then you would need to modify that to meet your needs.
thank you very much. i know it’s not an exact figure as i don’t know what the exact composition of the wheel weights or the pure lead is. i think that point with the pure lead i’d probably just add the whole 5lbs stick of super hard.
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they shot pretty good today and zero leading. the boolets are gas checked and lubed. this was my first trip to the range.
i agree that for 1300-1400 wheel weights will be ok but, eventually i want to push these boolets a little harder. i’d like to eventually get to about 1600-1800 fps. in my mosin. i’d rather error on the side of being a little to hard than soft.
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