Years ago, Mr. Veral Smith of Lead Bullet Technologies (LBT) told me there were only 3 manufacturers of wheel weight metal in the US, and one of those was exclusive to Sears. This meant Sears customers tended to go back to Sears and their weights tended to stay there as well. Of course we are the customers of anyone in the world that sells anything, so who knows where weights come from now.
With that said, back then you could depend on a consistent alloy to use casting hard bullets. I have a great supply of wheel weights and I smelt them down in 100 lb. lots so as to get them more consistent than smaller batches.
For simplicity sake, my hard lead alloy was 3 parts pure lead to one part wheel weights. I used that in my Henry and all of my breech loading firearms.
You can do more to reduce leading and improve accuracy with properly sized bullets and a good lube.
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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