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Old 03-13-2011, 10:10 PM
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Default Wheel weight bullets and quenching

I am hoping to get into casting bullets in the next few weeks and I have a line on alot of wheel weights. (About 20 pounds worth and they are already sorted by material so its all lead). The question I have is, after the bullets are smelted and I start to melt down whatever ingots made from WW's I have, how much does water quenching add to the hardness of the bullets I am going to make. I am trying for some .38 caliber bullets for my .357 and .38-44 Outdoorsman and I am figuring for velocities around 1200 fps. I am going to try for around 15 BHN or so. So does quenchin make that big a difference?
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