Originally Posted by
runfiverun
it can be, it just causes accuracy issues at the h/v end.
you just went through all the trouble to keep the boolit from slumping rearward or the nose to not slide.
then you soften the alloy back to its original form...........
works great as an expanding alloy but the h/v then does you in.
i do hunt with cast boolits,rock chucks, coyotes, marmots, deer, elk. but alloy used for each one is a bit different, hard and brittle pushed hard for the small stuff.
ductile low antimonial alloy for the medium [soft deer].
and a penetrating alloy for the elk not high in brittleness,a balanced alloy of antimony and tin.
i have clean shot through 12" pine trees with the 7 mauser and water dropped alloy i have recovered the boolits and they would have just penciled through a deer or elk so they alloy needs to be backed down or back tempered.
i just think that letting the bore size do the work is better in this regard.
it's a fine balacing act,but the field is not the place to have an alloy failure.