Ironhand54
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I see someone online offering conicals for the Old Army in both pure lead and WW. Anyone ever try the WW bullets? How would they compare with lead for accuracy and penetration?
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IronHand
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Wrong about damaging the barrel, ROA barrels are the same metal as Blackhawks, now damaging the loading lever, because of the hardness and difficulty of loading on the gun is a whole other story. True on the Italian or Spanish clones as they are very soft steel, but it would take many, many rounds to do significant damage, but they would be completely impossible to load on the gun with the factory loaders.have to be careful with WW 's sometimes they are too hard and will damage the barrel ROA's are better but still be safe
I actually witnessed someone bend the loading lever on a ROA about 20 years ago. Don't remember what he was trying to load(pure lead or WW), but this was not some big strong guy.
If the wheel weight is lead, it's lead with contaminates in it. Said contaminates are usually skimmed off during the casting process. Nothing to do with accuracy or penetration though. Doesn't matter if it's a BP load or a smokeless load either.
Modern wheel weights are made of zinc because some folks think that lead while being a naturally occurring element, is also a pollutant. Folks who try to melt wheel weights that won't melt in a regular lead casting machine probably have zinc, and zinc fumes are bad for you. Might want to be sure you have old wheel weights or modern bullet alloy, and not zinc.