Up until recently my bullet casting has just been for cheaper plinking loads. After recently acquiring a few suppressors I’ve gone down the road of hunting with subsonic loads. I had some 20-1 ingots I acquired and cast some bullets out of that worked good in my 458 socom on two deer but I’ve used all my 20-1 up. I do have some pure lead ingots and after reading as much as I could about using pewter for the tin content I’ve acquired about 7 pounds of pewter. I’m curious how everyone uses it. I’d like to use my ingots of pure lead and just add pewter to the casting pot as I add ingots, I’m in Wisconsin and it’s fairly cold outside so I really don’t want to remelt all my pure ingots just to add pewter and then make more ingots out of it. For those that add pewter to their melting pot do you just cut chunks off to get the proper weight pieces to keep the ratio to the ingots you add? Do you melt all of your pewter before hand and cast them into smaller sized pieces that you then add to the pot? I’m just trying to figure out the best way to use this. I’ve done a lot of searching and found minimal info on how everyone is using it.
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