You would think zinc would be the next step but the die hards at cast boolits will run you out of town if you bring it up other than a nasty four letter word. My understanding is zinc is as soft as copper so other than being lighter than lead I don't the big deal. Just looked it up zinc is softer than copper.Maximumbob54 wrote:If this is just for the sake of lead free you might also do a web search for "zinc bullets" as I'm pretty sure a few years ago I read some guys were trying it. I think some of them were getting some decent results.
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Actually there are several threads on casting zinc and quite a few of load suggestions .
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RBHarter wrote:Actually there are several threads on casting zinc and quite a few of load suggestions .
Need to look better then. Thanks for the heads up.
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