Soft or Hard ball

[Sharp Shooter]

Do you guys like soft roundballs or Hard roundballs better?

 

[walruskid1]

soft, pure lead. nothin' else works as well in a prb gun.

 

[playfarmers]

Pure lead is all I use.

 

[walruskid1]

you can use a hard cast with a patch in a smoothie with good results. gotta' go soft in a rifled barrel.

 

[Toomuch_36]

Pure soft lead is the only way to go, especially if you are using a tighter patch ball combo.

Toomuch
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Shoot Flint

 

[BS]

Do you guys like soft roundballs or Hard roundballs better?

If you do a search on:

paper patch

You will find that hard lead in a slow twist with norrow lands and wide groves works very well in some barrels with shallow rifling.

It works better with larger calibers, the tapered cartridges are easier to make.

 

[TN.Frank]

I've used wheel weight metal(dull weights only, the shinny ones have zinc in em', stirr clear of those) and I've fluxed it with Borax, which is suppose to de-alloy it a bit. They work ok for general shooting. For target work pure lead is the best way to go. As long as the alloy isn't too hard, like linotype, I don't see why it wouldn't work ok for plinkin' and general shooting.