Well, it's is doable.

I pencil it out to be a 1.52 to 1; lead to tin ratio. That's a heck of a lot tin! What we consider to be hard bullets is 16:1 alloy and some folk will go as hard as 12:1. No one goes even close to 1.5:1.

Bullet hardness is what matters, not weight. Hardness increases with a decreasing ratio of Lead:Tin. However, it is a diminishing relationship such that little if any hardness is gained once you cross something like 12:1. If you want harder, you jump to antimony or something else (copper, silver, ...?). Tin is also very expensive relative to Lead. So that makes me think that something else is an issue here. I doubt that bullet is really 1.5:1 lead/tin and nothing else, but it is possible.

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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