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Lawrence Townsend of San jose, CA

Date Posted: 7/13/2006

Hello the fire! Just made up 20 lb. of #2 alloy using 4 lb linotype, 5.5 lb pure lead and half pound of this tin and how sweet it is. The bullets are perfect, shine like a mirror and just barely mark with the fingernail, my way of hardness testing, and they shoot true. I just weigh the tin ingot, subtract the .5 lb and melt until I reach the new, reduced, target weight of the ingot. Excellent product.

RJC of Hartland, WI

Date Posted: 9/2/2005

Tin may be the best kept secret of bullet casting. I've read in many books and magazine articles that expensive tin isn't needed, that you can cast better, cheaper bullets with straight antimonial alloys. Well, I've been casting for nearly thirty years - tried more alloys and casting methods than I care to think about, and I like a generous percentage of tin in my bullets. Tin's benefit isn't so much the slight additional hardness that it gives, but the way it breaks down the surface tension of your alloy. Your blocks will fill perfectly almost every time. You can cast at a lower pot temperature which gives a faster freeze rate for more production. If you carefully inspect and weigh your bullets to check for internal voids (as I do for everything except plinking loads) you'll find you have a higher percentage of perfect bullets if there's plenty of tin in your mix. An added benefit of tin is that you'll get less leading than from straight antimonial mixes - even between bullets of equal hardness. It's because of the crystalline structure of solidified antimonial mixes. It's not a cure-all, but depending on hardness, lube and velocity that thin grey "flash" leading that you sometimes see all the way up the barrel will often disappear with the additiona of tin to your mix. Try it just once. Add a full 5 percent of tin to your wheelweights, or add 3 percent to your commercial "magnum" casting alloy. If you don't get better bullets, faster and easier than ever before, I'll be surprised.

Lee Miller of Shawnee mission, KS

Date Posted: 9/22/2004

Great way to get tin at a fair price,( tip, use bolt cutters to reduce to smaller pieces)

Chris Shipman of Moore, OK

Date Posted: 4/29/2004

Worked very well for working with wheel weights.

Mike Bragdon of Berwick, ME

Date Posted: 3/31/2002

Works great for hardening scrap lead and wheelweights.

John Barrow of Memphis, TN

Date Posted: 11/23/2006

Good cast tin bars at a good price but I don't believe that Midway weighs the bars before shipping. You might get over 2 lbs. or considerably under. When they say Approximately 2 lbs. they mean it. I just ordered 10 lbs. and got 9 lbs. 5 ozs. but that's still a pretty good deal.