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05-23-2019 | 07:49 AM

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arcticap

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Originally Posted by Hook

i'm thinking about buying a .452 cal 252 gr mould to cast bullets for my 50 cal in line ML. USe with 50 cal plastic sabot. Any pros or cons with this?

Here's a home cast .54 Lyman bullet that got stuck 3 inches down a clean bore when loading for the 1st shot which resulted in needing to pull the bullet.--->>> http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...sizing-bullets
He used hard lead for casting because he had 400 pounds of it.
The lead impurities probably caused it to be oversized.
An analysis of a sample of his casting lead showed that it contained the following elements:

87.53% lead
6.66% antimony
1.97% tin
1.92% titanium
1.79% iron
0.12% copper

That it contained titanium seemed unusual.
Looking it up shows that some titanium can be harder than some steels.

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