SO I love scrounging and saving money and up-cycling and re-using and even finding new uses for others' scraps.
But i got tired of mixing lead and trying to re-create the right alloy from "pure" lead and blocks of high antimony and tin solder.
I was spending more time than I wanted and not getting the results on target that I wanted.
That changed when I got my first order from GTBullets.com of 96-2-2 and 94-3-3 lead.
They claim its what they use to cast their boolits with. Works well for me, and its just as/more economical when you factor in that Rotometals doesn't put any tin in their lower cost alloys, so you are not buying tin which is pricey. They just work. Its kinda like accepting that you COULD get cheaper stuff, but accepting variable performance as a result. Definitely not knocking the folks that like to alloy their own and find cheap sources of lead out there, I'm just not interested in spending hat time to do it.
That said, does someone out there have a better performing alloy, its gotta have tin and antimony in it, that they like? Rotometals has the Hardball at $3.40/lb (with shipping), GT Bullets has those mentioned above at $2.90 and $3.35/lb (sans shipping).