sundogg - you sure got the better part of that deal. Care to introduce me to that feller (lol)
A number of yers ago I was developing a wildcat 40 cal pistol cartridge and happened upon a print shop nearby that was selling off (giving away) its old linotype print. I think I picked up three 5 gallon buckets worth and gave them to a fella who was casting out some 40 cal bullets for me.
He gave me 2k hardcast slugs from a RCBS 40170 (?) mold that dropped proper #2 alloy at 170 gn (proper weight for that swc slug). Wheelweight dropped them at 180-185 gn, but the lino dropped them at 165 grains and they were hard, lemme tellya.
I used those slugs for metallic silhouette and they were very accurate. I also used them to take a number of whitetail and two black bear over the years and was never able to recover a one. Square hole in and square hole out. They perfromed just as well on those critters as some hardcast Beartooth Bullets performed on Elk and Russian Boar - square hole in and a square hole out.
I sure hope you get a lot of good years of successful hunting with those lino-flavored slugs outta your 30-30. Mikey.