normally, i water drop almost all of my boolits. the "alloy" is usually ww, or ww + 2% tin. i will be "breaking in " a new barrel in the next few weeks (or so i am told by the gunsmith) and i am going to fire lap it right off the git-go. it ids a factory new take off barrel from a custom rifle build. i was reading an article about doing just that, and thier argument was it was best to do it with fairly soft bullets, that way, the tight spots would be "honed" and the looser spots would be left pretty much alone, at least until the bore was the same size all the way down. this made a lot of sense to me. unfortuneately, i have zero straight soft lead laying around. so i was thinking of just de-heat treating some already cast boolits, instead of casting different ones and letting them air cool. do you think these would still be to hard??? or, should i break down and buy some $1.00 a pound + soft lead from eblay?