I have read through the sticky, but kind of wonder what the recommended alloys for both the soft point and the main bullet body should be.
Obviously, pure lead is going to expand well as the nose, but seems like it may shear away too quickly if the bullet is pushed very fast. Would you want the mani body of the bullet real hard? Seems like a Lyman#2 would be harder than you'd want.
I have cast some like this, never used them on game. I'd like to hunt with the 311284 which is a round nose, and the old RCBS 7mm 165 grain bullet which has been discontinued. I've done pretty well using flat nosed bullets cast of the 50/50 wheel weights to pure with 2% tin added, was just thinking I could do this with higher velocities if I used the soft point method.
I'd like to hear other's experience.