Ian
Notorious member
If you don't end up pushing things to failure (within safe pressure limits, of course), you aren't going to learn very much. If you're serious about shooting cast bullets, you need to experiment and learn when and why antimony is needed in the alloy, what tin does and does not do, the difference between ductile and malleable bullets and how they behave under different pressure curves, how to fit a bullet to a gun, how and when to manipulate pressure curves to your advantage, how to engineer a hunting load for specific game (if you hunt), how to read groups, how to choose a powder, how to orepare your brass and why/what matters, and a host of other things. Keep those things in mind when you sit at the loading bench and ponder your next experiment.
Powder coating has its own, unique set of guidelines to keep you out of trouble, but it will eliminate one of the most frustrating variables associated with cast bullets: lubricant!
Powder coating has its own, unique set of guidelines to keep you out of trouble, but it will eliminate one of the most frustrating variables associated with cast bullets: lubricant!