plummers lead

[prospector86]

I have the chance to get about 200 pounds of plummers lead from a guy I know, My question is that it might be too soft when it's shot out and might start coating the inside of the tube. Has anyone used plumers lead before?

[GGaskill]

Should be OK as muzzle loading cannon shot are not tight fits like rifle bullets.  Plus you could always add some old style antimony-bearing wheel weights to harden it.

[Terry C.]

Never pass up soft lead.

Pure lead can be alloyed to whatever hardness you want, if need be.

But hard alloys such as wheelweights will always be hard and there's some applications where it's too hard (ie: patched round balls for rifles).

I keep a lot of WW ingots for cannonballs, but I always keed a small stock of pure lead for rifle balls and it's always more difficult (and more expensive) to get the soft lead when I need it.

Soft lead is generally worth more than wheelweights, so if nothing else it's good trading stock.

[Cat Whisperer]

Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo 

SOFT lead !  DON'T pass it up!

Even WW are going for $1 a pound on ebay.

One can, as Terry pointed out, TRADE!

I have seen soft lead used for a 3" diameter 3" long 'wadcutter' with a hollow base used in cannon competition.  (They took 1st place too.)