"hard cast"

[popper]

Especially hardcast heads. Call them knotheads? I consider it the alloy commercial cast Co get from the foundry.

[Bigslug]

Non cast bullet shooters are absolutely convinced that firing a lead bullet of any type will clog their barrel with permanent clumps of lead. The commercial lead bullet sellers attempt to counter this to some degree by calling all their bullets "hard cast" with the implication that if a lead bullet is hard enough it won't smear a coat of lead down your bore like a rotten banana being shoved down a water pipe. Of course, making their bullets harder allows them to survive shipping with fewer dents which makes a much better impression to the customer too. Yeah, it does usually show a person's level of knowledge about cast bullets if they use the term. Either that or they have given up and figure that you might as well speak the language that others use.

Put it another way: when they give up on loading commercial "hard cast", they'll either give you their remaining bullets or sell them to you cheap, and then you've made an easy score of re-taskable alloy that's probably high in SB and/or SN you can use to mix your range scrap with.

I won't be guilty of perpetuating the myth, but I can at least profit from it.