I've been buying #2 alloy form Art Green in Beverly Hills. Does anybody know of another west coast supply?

It ain't exactly the West Coast, but, you might try "The Antimony Man" in Phoenix Az. Just google him. If you have a source for lead, you might just buy the tin and antimony. The shipping costs would be a lot lower.

You can make 10 lbs. of #2 on your own by melting 9 lbs. wheel weights with 1 lb. 50/50 solder. It may not be as consistent as what you're buying commercially but it'll sure be a lot cheaper and no shipping charges.

I also like to use lyman #2.

Wheel weights are all recovered by a local reclamaiton service where i live... no WW for me.

I just use 15 lbs of #8 or #9 magnum lead shot (with no graphite added... Both BPI and West Coast Shot do not use graphite, just Antimony) 3 lbs of pure lead and 1 pound of 95/5 solder.

That gets me to EXACTLY 90/5/5.

Another formula is to use 25lbs of magnum shot, 1.66 lbs of 95/5 solder, and 5 lbs of lead.

I have 75 lbs of #2 alloy I use all the time now and cost just over $1.05/lb

I've been buying #2 alloy form Art Green in Beverly Hills. Does anybody know of another west coast supply? I sell # 2 Alloy. It is clean and in 1 LB/ 1/2 LB Bars with a BHN of 11.5 qnd is a 10 to 1 mixture. Works great for bullets that travel up to 1,00 FPS. You can contact me at wlmisenhimer@hotmail.com.

Isn't BHN of 11.5 a little low for Lyman #2?

454PB, I agree with you.

I am getting at least 15 BHN from air cooled.

I am hoping to get some quenched 300gr bullet here in the next day or so to play with. Going to take them to 450 F, then drop them into 34 F water, dry, then freeze for a week. I have heard this should get Lyman #2 all they way upto 25 BHN.

[By the way, how do you like your 454 Raging Bull? I just got mine, a later 2005 vintage]

Why would you quench them and then heat treat too?

If you've never done the heat treating before, let me warn you that it's VERY easy to get them just a little bit too hot and end up with a ruined batch of boolits. Properly done, 25 BHN is pretty easy.

As to the Raging Bull, rather than repeat myself here's a couple of links that tell my story:

http://www.ezforums.org/454Casull/forum_posts.asp?TID=38&PN=1

http://www.ezforums.org/454Casull/forum_posts.asp?TID=56&PN=1

I'm not well versed on the need for anything above 15 BHN. What would 25 BHN do for me in a hunting round?

I used to hunt Elk with a .444 Marlin, using 260 grain cast boolits at 2300 fps. These were heat treated to BHN around 26 and wearing a gas check, that gun would put 4 rounds in 1 1/2" at 100 yards, and yet not shatter like straight linotype might if a big bone was struck. Anything softer couldn't be driven that hard.

If a BHN of 15 suits your purposes, it is all you need.