Being retired, I have a lot of time to let my mind wander. Sometimes I get in trouble, sometimes I get a brainstorm. Mostly I get in trouble. Hey… it’s not my fault that my wife still goes to work, and leaves me unsupervised…. Muhwahahahahaha
This is not something that I have attempted. I am not proposing that someone try it. I’m just thinking about it, and trying to figure how it would do.
What if you took a hunting boolit, say a 200 gr FN .35 Rem , but cast in a harder alloy, say #2 Lyman, and water quench it. Match a square cut end mill to the meplat diameter, and bore it out, to maybe the first drive band. Use a fine steel tool to scratch up the inside of bore… to give it some teeth. Finally, fill that bore with soft pure lead. Would that mimick a SPCL ?
Would pouring the pure lead into the hollow , cause the #2 “jacket” to melt and deform, if you had it at the lowest possible temp, to pour? Because it’s basically all “lead” and no hollow left , would it affect the final weight or change it’s ballistic stability performance?