The goal is accuracy, I'll be competing in shooting tree and cut the rope competitions
I'll be shooting them through a Ruger Vaquero and Henry Big Boy.
I'll be using an Arsenal 338-158 RF gas checked mold and will be powder coating.
What should be my fresh pour hardness target be ? (water cool or air cool?)
Wouldn't be terrible if it worked well for 38 spc but I realize that might be asking a bit much.
I'm going to assume that if I go 5 to 1 lead to mono for the +P / 357 I should go 6 to 1 for 38 spc ? Or is that to simple?
What I have to work with :
I have pure lead, 3 virgin linotype pigs, a 5 gallon bucket of mixed mono and lino (mostly mono), two 10 lb brick size blocks of pure tin (that I've no idea how to cut), about 50 lbs of old wire solder that was melted and poured into ingots, and about 3k lbs of hardened 7 1/2 shot that had been used as ballast but I use to load trap rounds.
I have no wheel weights, nor can I get any. Hard to come by here in NJ. My son's a mechanic and can barely get me any - it's all the zinc stuff now.
Lesson to learn - Make COPIES of your recipe. I did a pour a few months ago and everything worked out really well -and somewere between then and now I lost the sheet of paper I had written it all down on - now back to square one
I had used some leftover Hi Skoor 700, which worked well but I'm now out of. Any recommendations for a powder that's possible to find right now?
Thanks !