Hi-
Over the last few weeks I cast over 3000 bullets with a lyman 358429 mould. This weekend I tried every combination of load I could think of including various lubes but cannot get these bullets to shoot. I cast a few with pure linotype and they shoot like they should so it got me to thinking that there must be something wrong with the alloy which is WW metal.
The bullets look fine and weights are quite consistant but just won't group the way they should. Could it be that I have "contaminated" alloy? What effect does zince have on bullet metal? The guy at the garage says they also use aluminum WW [never heard of that before]. How do you tell a "bad" WW from a good one?
Thanks for any advice.
God bless
Kevin
Wishing he had a .38 cal machine gun to burn up those bullets now...
Over the last few weeks I cast over 3000 bullets with a lyman 358429 mould. This weekend I tried every combination of load I could think of including various lubes but cannot get these bullets to shoot. I cast a few with pure linotype and they shoot like they should so it got me to thinking that there must be something wrong with the alloy which is WW metal.
The bullets look fine and weights are quite consistant but just won't group the way they should. Could it be that I have "contaminated" alloy? What effect does zince have on bullet metal? The guy at the garage says they also use aluminum WW [never heard of that before]. How do you tell a "bad" WW from a good one?
Thanks for any advice.
God bless
Kevin
Wishing he had a .38 cal machine gun to burn up those bullets now...