cast vs swaged ?

[silent sniper]

hey guys I was wanting to see what you guys think. IF all elements where equal which would expand more a cast or swaged roundball made of pure lead ? I have always wanted to test it but I havent done it yet. My opinion is that a cast roundball would expand more because the flat spruce on it would help start expansion. what do you guys think ?

 

[Stumpkiller]

I would bet the differences would be so slight as to be immeasurable.

 

[Bill Hall]

same.

 

[rawhide]

dose make a guy wonder :hmm: I don't know but all my guns like cast balls.

 

[luieb45]

The button buck I shot this year with a .50 hornady ball expanded enough to make the wound channel look like it'd been hit by what I used to use, 20 gauge 1 oz. Winchester Super-X sabots.

 

[Skychief]

SS, once you seat a cast ball the sprue is all but nonexistant (assuming a moderately tight patch/ball fit in the bore).

I have seen here somewhere a picture of a cast ball and a store-bought swaged ball one atop the other introduced into a vice. The cast ball flattened a lot more than the swaged ball under the pressure of the vice jaws.

It is my belief that the store bought swaged balls are not always as soft (pure) as the seller would like for you to believe.

Skychief.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

I shot a Hornady swaged ball into a tree. It's as flat as a pancake. Probably more than it would do in an animal, but I carry it around in my pocket. It makes a good conversation piece.

 

[Jason Lewis]

no differance what so ever. pure lead, is pure lead. the sprue on a cast ball is too tiny to make a flat nose sufficient enough to add expansion. if it were big enough, it wouldn't be round, just mutated. good question none the less.