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Thread: Recommendations for alloying lino and ww

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    Boolit Master Rapier's Avatar
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    If you want a very good alloy with WW and Lino, you could try Carlton Shy’s alloy, the Cast Bullet Editor for The Silhouette and the IHMSA News, a 50 year caster and author of over 200 magazine articles and several books on casting, before he passed.
    70% cleaned clip on WW, 20% Linotype and 10% Chilled Lead Shot, fluxed well in a large alloy pot. Poured into ingots or muffin tins for a pour pot makes very consistent bullet weights and fills out very well. If water dropped is very hard at 23br and if powder coated will do 2,600 to 2,800 fps without any gas check and will shoot .3 inches at 100 out of AR with no fouling or leading. It holds to micro grove rifling in a Marlin, like a railroad track, my 444 with a scope, shoots 1” at 200 meters.with a 210g Lyman, in front of witnesses, and has won many lever action cowboy matches to boot.
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    if you go through the Lyman load manuals and the Lyman cast bullet manual there are certain loads that are for bullets cast of Linotype. might use your Lino for some of those loads.

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    I keep hearing a few folks refer to the "antimony to lead" problem. Can someone tell me what that is? I thought antimony was desirable for hardening the alloy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShooterAZ View Post
    Mixing Lino and COWW's is OK to do, I do it all the time. I mix 25% Lino with 75 % WW's for an air cooled BHN of around 15. Water dropping it will get you up around BHN 22. This has been my "go to" target rifle alloy for many years. Hunting alloy is a different matter though.
    whats the hunting alloy?

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    All I ever used was wheel weights with 2% tin. Never leaded a barrel and does shoot very accurately in my Moisins. Bought some hardball alloy from a place in New Jersey many years ago. Between that and some tin I picked up and about a pound of antimony I'm good. But truth be told the wheel weights with 2% tin has served me well. When I used to mine the pistol berms, many shooters shot the hard cast 45acp 230 grain round nosed bullet. When separating the bullets I mined, would always save the 45 RN's and melted them separately into ingots. Still have a couple 5 gallon buckets left from the berms. Frank

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check