#2 lead recipes

[skeet]

from lead suppliers. Antimony is kinda hard to find and Tin is truly expensive. But if you want to cast and can find partial bags of lead shot at yard sales etc like I do ..here is the easy way. If you can find a partial bag of magnum lead shot..it usually has 5-8% antimony and a trace amount of tin..so get some tin(pewter from yard sales is a great way) ad about 5-6% to the shot and melt her down stir it up and cast with it.. Luckily I bought a few chunks of tin(87 lbs at one) at farm auctions and I made a whole lot of 10-1 15-1 and 20-1 lead ingots with it. I don't know why they had all that tin around farms. But over the years I have bought at least 200 lbs. Luckily I had a fellow give me 1800 lbs of magnum lead shot in sizes BB through 5s and I made some linotype with it too. I even tried monotype but if I remember it is truly hard Antimony is somewhat poisonous and hard to get alloyed so that is why I suggested magnum lead shot with it already mixed. Odd about that antimony thing but women in ancient Egypt used it in cosmetics etc. But poisonous mainly in vapor form I think