New Alloy

[Kurt]

Michael I was using thin 1.5 Thousands paper for the bullets your looking at and they patched 1/2 thousands over bore and the blowing in my face at 8 degrees F and I did not look for the patches blowing over the snow so I cant say.
I did find a couple of the .45 bullets that had the same mix as the three .40's above and the land cuts are not deep enough to use. The more massive bullets like the .444 diameter 500 plus grain weight don't bump up as much as the lighter .40 caliber even using 30 grains less powder for the .40-65 then the .45-90.
One alloy temper does not react the same between heavy and light bullets.
This alloy mix I see that it will take a little more snow flake work, but I still have a bunch to find to tell the whole story and the final test will be through the paper.
I have some that just have a thin OJ carton wad between the powder and bullet and one I found today and it sealed the bore just fine with no gas cuts, so this is promising that a .023" thick wad protects this alloy in fine shape so far.