adding pewter to lead

[luckydawg13]

i have never mixed any thing with my wheel weight lead before but i found
some pewter cups at goodwill about #2 or so for $10. i think it was in OK price
for pewter ? any way how much pewter do i mix with WW lead i would
just use this mix for a hunting boolit in my 44 mag /454 just thought that i would
try it thanks for any info at all on this

[Graybeard]

I believe pewter is an alloy of zinc and tin. So how much zinc to you want in your bullets? Most folks say ZERO.

[Lloyd Smale]

no bill theres no zinc in real pewter. Zinc about all tin with a few trace minerals in it. Zinc is what is used these days to replace pewter because tin is so expensive. You wont see a mix of both because  like us the people casting those things dont want the agravation mixing them brings. As to a mix add your pewter just like it was pure tin. 2-4 percent will usually be plenty with ww. You dont want your tin content to be any higher then your antimony content. If it is your just wasting tin. Bottom line is anything over about 4 percent and your wasting it.
 

[luckydawg13]

so like 2oz to 20# thanks

[JustaShooter]

Pewter is a kind of generic term and doesn't specify a specific alloy (unlike English Pewter, which does).  Pewter is typically 85–99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead. 

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewter for more details.

FYI

Just a Shooter

[41 mag]

Give this spreadsheet a look, it comes out pretty darned close to what you end up with if your alloys are close,
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?s=145eb543ad51f44ff5ecad1d9d464ee1&attachmentid=39780&d=1326697899