CowboyTutt, you don't know me from Adam's housecat... I've been a member here for years but strayed when I dropped out of Cowboy Action Shooting and just today found the Forum and reset my password. Came looking for advice on Blue Dot in .357 magnum. Saw your post and had to reply. Your “Little Girl...

Leverluver, We are comparing apples and oranges here. ASM Metals Handbook, Vol. 2 Tenth Ed. page 519 gives hardness of commercially pure tin as 3.9 HB at 68ºF, 3.0 at 140ºF, and 2.3 at 212ºF. Most cast bullets are closer to 10-20 HB but they contain some alloying elements so the comparison is not...

Nah, but I switched to tortilla chips anyway, on account of I can used them to scoop up hot sauce. 71fan, you are on to some good ideas. Tin is softer than lead, both can be hardened a bit by alloying, and using a copper tube jacket is a very good idea. A company called Corbin sells a bullet swage t...

Density of lead is 8.3 grams per cc - melts about 621ºF Tin is 7.3 g/cc and it melts ~100ºF lower, at ~450ºF Molten lead does not "wet" steel well; molten tin wets steel real well! Copper is 8.9 g/cc but it melts too high for easy casting at home - sbout 1982ºF. You would be better off...

game keeper, It was a BSA B50 - they recycled the name of the classic 1950s Gold Star and stuck it on a bored 441 Victor. Nice bike - light, good torque, excellent cornering, "classic" vibration and oil leaks. And - the gear shift was on the right... like all the BSAs, Triumphs, Nortons, H...

Well, that tipped me over the edge to actually make my first post here and kind of introduce myself. Only lever gun I have is a Marlin 1894 in .357 mag, but I love it and got my brother one just like it. t.r. said it best - watch out what you believe, especially from the news media. I jump on the Fr...