The one that almost got away

[Kurt]

Bullets are really starting to come to the surface

I'm posting some of these so some of you don't live in a snow belt to be able to recover bullets to see how your alloy is holding up.
I did a lot of this this time using the GG bullets with the "money" ogive and the new .44 prolate and elliptical mould I want to use in the .44-100 st. and the results are very informative to me as far as what to use foe alloy to get the best results to hold the integrity of the nose and still get good expansion to get good rotation of the PP bullet. To hard I have seen in the past did not obdurate enough to insure that the bullet gets full rotation by stripping or stripping the patch.
The solder is 1 pound roll of 95/5 solder that is 95% tin 5% antimony.
The 1/30 alloy I used a 1/2 roll with 15 pounds lead and the results are quite interesting how well that nose stud up as well as the 1/40 even compared to the 1/40 lead/tin mix. Even the long nosed .44 caliber prolate held up using 1/30 with the 95/5 solder.
I think we tend to use to much tin in a mix then necessary.
One of those bullets has a mix of 50/50 WW lead and it still holds the nose in good shape. It also did not fill the grooves as well as the 1/16 L/T