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Birdadly,

Very welcome........Hell, I wouldn't sneeze at those groups at all.....damn good for 8 rounds of cast. More than likely, based on the group and the space around it, the 8th one went...

longbow....
From the majority of slugs that I've recovered, yes, the skirt folds up into the front. I'm sure anything in the base would be ejected. I've got one in my shop now that I recovered after...

smokeeter,

Nice results !.......as I said, impressive !

My results, using 3 different rifled shotguns, was an eye opener. For testing I used a Bennelli semi auto, a Remington 11-87, and an...

Smokkeeter,

Now those are shot through a smoothbore, right ?.........The bottom target is two or three ?.....impressive.

Bob

Dan,
Good one............it's amazing how some of the strangest techniques seem to pull results. I made (and make) people focus on a small stick'em that I place on the target without using their...

I started casting fishing sinkers for my uncles back in 64-65' over a Coleman stove. Once they saw I enjoyed doing it, they supplied me with more lead to start doing their bullets.....lol. Other than...

After many years as an LE instructor, training hundreds of police recruits over the years, and being involved in calls where guns and shootings were getting more numerous, I have to say that a lot of...

Yep.........there's a bunch of factors that contribute to accuracy as well as functionality in a gun.......not to mention the gun itself. Hardness is only one of them.

Since the walls are fairly thin, and it's pure lead anyway, I'll experiment with the swaging punch and cup thing that I had my local machine shop make for me. They made the diameter of the cup/die...

Yeah 44,
Although tin does add "some" hardness to WW's, like I said.....it's not enough to make it worth it. Antimony is the real ticket of course. To be honest, I use alloys like stepping...

44mag,

Yep......Veral makes good stuff. Cool old fella to talk to as I remember too.

All I can say is what I've read and studied over the years.........pure lead has always been listed as 5-6...

My old LBT tester is ancient........I bought it back when Veral Smith first started making & selling them. Actually it's 1st gen........he came up with a 2nd gen later on......improved version....

Forrest r,

From what I've read over the years, the 1422 x bhn result was the maximum working pressure for that hardness. Whether it's max bhn for that pressure, or visa versa, I think we're all...

Hey Smoke.......

Not bad at all from a smoothbore !........just goes to show that the sabots will work rifling or not.......

Longbow,

Yeah, my findings mirrored yours almost exactly, and I did the same thing........cast pure lead, loaded them per the book, shot them at 100 yds.......all over the paper. You'd get two or...

John,
By segregating my lead I keep them separate (as to their own groups), so I can control a mix later if I need to. I mark them on the back of the ingots as WW's, Lino, Pure Lead(PL), Babbit,...

Possibly so.......most of my supply has been collected in past years so I can't attest to it. Makes sense though. I still have several hundred pounds to melt down into ingots....maybe 4-5 hundred...

44man,

I can't get my WW's to get anywhere near those numbers after water quenching. I sort, soak and clean the weights, then batch melt & flux them into ingots, then when they get to the pot I...

Hey Lloyd.........long time no see......many years since the other site.....lol. I saw CBRick was here too......cool.

Bob

Longbow......
No, the guns I use them in are all rifled. I just bought a Remington SPS Super Slug (heavy barrel-rifled) to use just for slug range work. I've never run them through a smoothbore, and...

John,
Just attaching a photo of my LBT hardness tester that I've had for years & years to give you an idea. If I remember correctly, it shows me testing a water quenched round made from straight...

John,
Actually WW's cover a lot of area for what they are. I sort the softer (pure) lead out for shotgun slugs and black powder rounds as I want the WW's to be as straight as I can get them. With...

Good luck......
I got lucky and bought out a local supplier when he retired. Otherwise I probably never would've used Herco as I hadn't had much of a call for it in the past. Now, I wouldn't be...

CF,
If the WSF doesn't work for you, try the Herco. I tried Blue Dot and Unique before falling on Herco, and they didn't work so hot for me. Once I tried the Herco though.......night & day...

Well fiverun lol......

I guess in the world of "I can do whatever I want", it's all good them.....lmao. I mean, I can fire a fresh turd down a section of water pipe with enough air pressure, but I...