Over the last ten years I’ve loaded and shot a fair amount of home made shot . No I didn’t make it but I had a friend that used to make it one other friend that still does . The one friend that’s still alive and making it says he gets best results making approx 8 1/2’s . My friend that’s passed now made up to 7’s . I can’t comment on hardness I do however know both used to put Linotype in their alloy before they started dripping shot . Lawrence used to make three grades of shot Black was and still is magnum , Red was chilled and they made Blue that was the cheapest grade . Over time I got maybe forty bags of the soft blue bag stuff and it broke targets well enough on the skeet field as well as smoke dove , all the blue bag came from a nueclear power plant and they’d used it as a buffer around one of the reactors and was all 8’s .
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Parker’s , 6.5mm’s , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s and my family in the Philippines !
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