Originally Posted by
tacfoley
You might try out the easy-to-find .454" - .the .457" ball you mention are those used for the Ruger Old Army - usually exclusively - so you might find difficulty in locating them.
Ever thought of making your own? You don't need much in the way of equipment, and the saving is nigh-on unbelievable - around £1-50 a hundred instead of ten times that much....
tac
£1.50? Interesting figure that got me checking my own cost. Lead- zilch. Scrounged from mates who want fishing weights now and then and have piles of old lead piping in their sheds; Equipment- bought in the eighties and now worthless but still working; Electricity-17.8 p per kilowatt hour. Takes an hour or so to make about 300 454 balls with a lee smelter which doesn't use much power after the lead is melted; Time- retired- who cares. The only way that I could make it up to £1.50/100 balls is in the beer I drink while I'm casting.
Sorry back to the thread. 454 work fine in my Rogers and Spencer although that probably doesn't answer your question.
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