See my post above, been casting for probably forty years now and wheel weights will work, with the above caveats.
Yep we no longer produce any virgin lead in this country, all we "produce" is from scrap.
Babbit is a very high tin and antimony alloy, used mainly for industrial bearings, used to love it when I could get my hands on it for casting unmentionables. It was great to use to "sweeten" the alloy to make it harder and pour better to fill out the mold (tin is good fof that)
I only knew it was free, could be cast into Round Ball, would shoot with a thin patch and 60grs ffg. and penetrate like the devil's own.
I stopped using them for that reason.
For my Muzzle loading rifles I always mix my alloy as 50/50 by weight pure and wheel weight. For my 50 and 54 cals it provides a bit deeper penetration because it doesn’t flatten out as much as the pure lead does, and for my 32 and 36 cal rifles I squirrel hunt with it doesn’t deform at all and just punches a clean hole. Even if I make a bad shot on one running and hit a leg first, it is just a clean hole. No bone splinters it may be broken but the harder alloy doesn’t grind them up like the pure does when it starts to deform on impact.Take the free wheel weight lead stuff and then hit the garage try to buy the whole batch for a little better price and stash it away. BTW my local scrap dealer is only paying 14 cents a pound for wheel weights. Clip-on wheel wheel weights are hardened with antimony and are great as is when used for modern pistol bullets, high velocity stuff excepted. A little tin solder added will make the WW metal flow better,. The newer lead stick-on weights are very soft, nearly pure to allow them to easily bend to conform to the wheel and will need hardening for modern bullets but should be great for M/L stuff. You can probably mix your WW metal 50/50 your with pure lead and get good results, a test batch in the lead pot will tell. I shot a lot of scrounged wheel weight .44 Mag bullets before acquiring a lifetime supply of linotype which containing 4% tin fills out the molds beautifully. I cast pure linotype hex bullets for my Whitworth. They are so hard they shatter on steel or rock and recovered ones that passed thru logs were in good enough shape to shoot again, the square shoulders are rounded a bit but still very shootable. YMMV
There are other ways to get a stuck bullet out other than a bullet puller or a gunsmith
Would depend on the number of cars in the parking lot.
It would be lighter, the real issue is that it's extremely frangible
I've never noticed a difference in group size or POI using them. Be hard to say cause ww don't have a set amount of metals.
If a large grey chunk of extra heavy material arrived in the colony, it's a safe bet someone wouldn't agonize over what to do with it. They'd use it as a door stop or melt it down for RB.
