Muzzleloading Lead Ball Weights

Round Balls

Completely uniform in size, weight, and roundness, Hornady® Round Balls deliver consistent and accurate performance. They're cold swaged from pure lead which eliminates air pockets and voids common to cast balls. And the smoother, rounder surface …

Best lead for casting ball? | The Muzzleloading Forum

Wondering what type of recycled lead is best for casting round balls. My brother picked up 47 lbs of lead from scuba diving weight belt for $2. Curious if it would be good. Also wondering about car/truck battery lead. Got a 120 lbs battery at work I could grab. Hope to cast my own someday.

Lead hardness? | The Muzzleloading Forum

Wheel weights will work for cast balls but because the lead is much harder and won't deform easily to permit loading, thicker patches are necessary to make up for the lack of ductility. Finding a good patch/ball combination can be a lengthy process, especially in a smoothbore where there is no room in the non-existent rifling grooves for the ...

lead balls per pound

The simple formula to calculate the number of balls per pound from the diameter is the following: 4.655*Diameter*Diameter*Diameter A 0.500 ball calculates out to 37.24 balls to the pound. A 0.648 ball calculates out to 17.11 balls to the pound. A 0.729 ball calculates out to 12.02 balls to the pound.

Hornady™ Muzzleloader Round Balls | Lead | Muzzle-Loaders

Hornady muzzleloading round balls.32 to .58 Caliber lead round balls. Original price $13.50 - Original price $23.50 Original price $19.50 $16.00 $13. ... These round balls are cold swaged from pure lead and are exceptionally uniform with no air pockets or voids. The smooth round surface allows for better rotation and improved accuracy.

Wheel Weight balls

Hard lead was the normal load for ML used on heavy game in the 19th century and possibly before. I have a 16 bore rifle that shoots WW as well as it shoots pure lead but I can shoot a thicker patch with pure lead. WW is harder and also casts a slightly larger ball from the same mould since lead shrinks more than WW as it cools.

hard balls

If you can find lead wheel weights they should be harder than pure lead. Depends on what you are going to shoot them out of. A patched round ball in a rifled barrel needs to be soft enough to engage the patch/rifling. In a smooth bore they can be harder as long as the size is correct. Again it depends on what you are hunting.

Casting round balls out of wheel weights? | Modern Muzzleloader

I am trying to justify purchasing the needed equipment to cast my own round balls. My neighbor has 200 lbs. of wheel weights. I read that wheel weights have zink and something else in them besides lead. According to what I have read, muzzle loader projectiles need to be cast from 99% lead...

Why "Soft" Lead"

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum: ... You mentioned the imprint of the patches weave that shows up on the soft lead ball. This is the resin for using pure lead when shooting PRB. That interface is important to imparting a spin on the ball. Too much tin(as with wheel weights) may limit or or eliminate the grip of the patch to the ball, adversely ...

50 Cal .490 Lead Balls

Completely uniform in size, weight, and roundness, Hornady® Round Balls deliver consistent and accurate performance. They're cold swaged from pure lead which eliminates air pockets and …

Wheel weights

I am trying to extract pure lead from wheel weights. How hot does the lead need to get before it will seperate out the tin, ect? I have a 5 gallon bucket...

Identifying lead vs zinc wheel weights | The Muzzleloading Forum

for years I would get wheel weights for casting balls— no worry till not all WW are lead. Any tips on telling the lead from other? ... Help Support Muzzleloading Forum: ... I've read and been told that the stick on weights are at or closest to pure lead. There are ways to heat to help separate alloys but not effective.

Weight of Round Balls according to the diameter?

lead round ball weights are and have been pre-determined. where the weight varies either way..... depends on alloy purity. 54 cal. is 230 gr. (.530 dia.) slightly heavier if it were .535 dia. and so on.

tire weights and "pure" lead | The Muzzleloading Forum

OK, from what i understand you should only use "pure" lead for casting, correct? but, i can get all the tire weights i want for free. is there an easy way to sepperate the "pure" lead from the molten tire weights??? i will be casting RB's for a …

Is pure lead really necessary for muzzle loading balls or bullet in

Old wheel weights were good but drop about 10-12 BHN which is a bit hard for patched ball use but works fine in conicals from what I have experienced. I have not tried this alloy with mini-balls so cannot say how it works for them. Modern wheel weights are not usually very good as they are alloyed with zinc and do not cast well.

Lead Balls

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Hornady™ Muzzleloader Round Balls | Lead | Muzzle …

Hornady Muzzleloading Round Balls are ideal for hunting or target shooting with your muzzleloader. These round balls are cold swaged from pure lead and are exceptionally uniform with no air pockets or voids.

PureLead verses Wheel weights

Better just to keep them separate as it takes a lot of lead to dilute the non-lead WW components to a point of near pure lead softness. That being said I have shot Probably 50 pounds of WW round ball over the years at targets, pine cones, clay pigeons on the bank, and squirrels.

Tip #15 – Selecting the Right Lead Balls

This tip isn't referring to the caliber of the rifle to the ball size. For example, if you have a .50 caliber rifle, you are probably using .490 or .495 lead balls. The compressed patch thickness fills in the gap between the ball and the bore of the barrel. We are going to assume you

Round Balls per Pound

The total number lead balls of a particular size equal to a pound in weight gives the "gauge." For example, 12 balls per pound equals a 12 gauge. The 20 gauge shotgun means 20 lead balls equal in size to the gun's barrel diameter constitute one pound. Therefore, the 12 gauge is larger in bore size than the 20 gauge.

Hornady 50 Cal .495 Lead Round Ball (100/box)

Hornady 50 Cal .495 Lead Balls 100/bx. Completely uniform in size, weight, and roundness, Hornady® Round Balls deliver consistent and accurate performance. They're cold swaged from pure lead which eliminates air pockets and voids common to cast balls. And the smoother, rounder surface assures better rotation and consistency.

wheel weights

Sorry I'm so long winded - lots of parts to the equation.:Wheelweights normally run between Brinel 12 and 13. Pure lead, 99.6% plumbers lead, runs 5 Brinel.

Selecting the Right Lead Balls

One member of our club was telling about how he weighs the balls and sorts them by weight. Notice this chart: Based upon this chart a .490 ball should weigh 177 grains.

T/C Maxi Balls and Elk

Clip-on wheel weights and 3% tin for mold fill-out/bullet definition. ... I have downed 3 bulls in the past all with 54 cal pure lead balls, you don't need pass through, well placed into the heart does the trick, 2 of the 3 pancaked where they stood, the other was a neck shot that snapped the spine, needed to finish at close range ...

Balls & shot for muzzle loading guns

Balls & shot for muzzle loading guns Hornady round balls are die swaged from pure soft lead. Each ball is perfect, no shrinkage, no sprue, no wrinkles. Hornady round balls are made in the …

How Many Round Balls per Pound of Lead | Black Powder Guide

Wheel Weight and Pure Lead Density

Take a piece of unknown lead. construct a sharp point on a piece of steel rod, make your guage with a piece of aluminum having a bar and upright with a pointer at the back . set the pointon zero in the back . add 2lb to the point over the lead, give it twenty min to penetrate the lead,mark the guage to show how deep it penetrats the soft lead ...

Wheel weights

Wheel weights will not hurt your gun. They may not shoot as well as pure lead, but since the patch is between the ball and bore there is no direct contact. Even if there were there would be no damage to the bore. I have shot about a gazillion rifle and pistol bullets cast from wheel weights through high and low quality guns with no ill results.

Ferguson rifle

A 0.648" ball worked fine but did not allow much powder behind it in the chamber.. I settled on 0.626" balls and these shoot very accurately out to 100 yards (the furthest I've used it) and I can get a bit more powder behind it. …

Best lead for casting ball? | Page 2 | The Muzzleloading Forum

Under no circumstances will I waste soft lead/stick-on wheel weights/98-1-1 sailboat ballast on patched round balls. The soft stuff gets saved for the .58 civil war guns. .600 ball for a .609 smooth bore.