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castboolits is the place to answer all your questions. Casting is a great resource, practically adds another hobby to shooting and reloading.

Between The High Road and Castboolits there isn't much you could ask that someone couldn't answer.

Pure Lead is very soft, and is somewhat difficult to cast good quality bullets with. Tin increases fluidity of Lead, improves fill-out in molds, and by itself hardens Lead a little. When Tin and Antimony are added to Lead, they increase Lead hardness a lot.

Ask yourself if you want your bullets hard. Many people do not for the .45-70.

Cast Bullets is an excellent reference site.

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Tin will help up to 2-3% any more & there`s no gain & a wastse of $$

Lino is hard to find & easiest to get in the form of WW.

If ya can find some WWs mix 50/50 , or trade it for some more suitable alloyed lead , pure is harder than ever to come by & I`ve seen muzzle loaders trade 2/1 before.

I have some soft lead & reserve it for special projects or use it for a base line to compare the characteristics of an alloys ability to perform .

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