Jeff Siewert

Okay.

Yeah, you're really, yeah.

And to be honest with you, anything that you do with an alternate material that's lighter than lead, you're going to be hard pressed to match the performance, in my opinion.

Lead's a good material for bullets for a lot of reasons.

The very high density, low yield strength, the wonderful elongation and failure, those are all kind of really tough to replicate in alternate materials.

Somebody mentioned that they've got...

I've been shooting zinc bullets for five years, no powder coat, no issues with zinc fouling.

If you're using them for like for a pistol application where the velocities and pressures are low, I could see where you could get away with that.

If you're trying to drive them to rifle velocities, things might not behave as benignly as they do in pistol application.

Yeah, Andy said something about 30-06, 180 grain, lead, 113.

That's cooking along pretty good.

And I would be looking for deposits on the driving side of the lands in the barrel to see if you've left anything behind.

I mean, basically, the wear of the driving surface of the bullet is related to its melt temperature.

So copper has a melt temperature around 1900 degrees Fahrenheit.

Lead is considerably lower, like 600 if memory serves correctly.

Zinc is a little bit higher than that, if I'm remembering correctly.

So, like, perhaps a little more velocity than lead, you might be able to get away with it.

But 3,200 feet per second would be rough.

That I would expect to leave a fair amount of residual material behind.

Yeah, I don't have any firsthand information other than back in the early...