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Thread: Ranch Dog Alloy

  1. 01-31-2022, 03:59 PM #1
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    Ranch Dog Alloy

    At one time Ranch Dog had a recommended alloy. As I recall it was 9#'s of WW, something else, and an ounce of chilled shot. What was the "something else"?
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  2. 01-31-2022, 08:04 PM #2
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    Mrs. Thumbcocker shot a hog with a Ranch Dog boolit cast of acww at 2100 or so. Bang flop.

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    Was it 9 lbs. pure lead 1 lb linotype 1 oz Crown Royal?
    Wheel weights and pure lead at about half and half with a bit of tin has a broad range of use.
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    I have his PDF load notes for .35 REM. They say "Lyman #2 clone."
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    Hard to go wrong with #2 alloy in 30 cal rifles.
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  6. 02-01-2022, 10:52 AM #6
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    OaheDoug,
    welcome to the forum.

    I bet if you sat down with Michael, He'd ask you what your application is, before he'd give you a recommended alloy. If there is a long lost post of his, about a recommended alloy recipe, I'm sure there would be context to why that recipe is recommended.

    If I was pushing a dip-lubed RD boolit down a Levergun barrel pointed toward a piggy, I would use water-quenched 50-50 COWW/pure lead.
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