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General >> Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc >> Cast bullet question http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1511761443 Message started by Culpeper on Nov 27^th, 2017 at 5:44am

Title: Re: Cast bullet question
Post by madsenshooter on Nov 28^th, 2017 at 4:52am

The copper really wasn't my idea, Whelen and Hudson were playing with a very high copper alloy. Ideal once sold the alloy, 80Pb, 10Sn, 7Sb, 3Cu. It was called Ideal #1, or as Whelen referred to it, Ideal Bullet Metal, in his 1909 Suggestions to Military Rifleman. I must've found the Ideal #1 in an old catalog. I'm not close to that Cu percentage.