So, 357maximum, has a thread going in the huntin' section about a few fellers playing with a high copper alloy.
I want to know more about this, and didn't want to hi-jack that thread any more than it already has been.
The talk was of tinning copper strand wire and then adding it to an alloy till the precipitation point is reached.
I understand the basics of this, but would like to understand more specifics, such as how hot you need to run the melt to do this,
how you tell when the precipitation point has been reached etc. The resulting high strength, but still malleable boolit is what I find very interesting.
I would love to be able to shoot cast in a high velocity hunting boolit without having to resort to paper patching. Jwords are just to expensive anymore,
and I'd like to be more self sufficient anyway. Here in MT, on the west most shots can be had at 100 yards or less, but the east prairie side, shots to 300+ yards can be expected.
1100 fps cast boolits don't shine very well in that situation.
So, any chance of discussion about this turning into a tutorial?