Thread: Casting.....lead, tin and Antimony supply?

Scrap metal dealers are a good source but so is scrounging old building sites and indoor rifle clubs produce a suprising amount of lead. Wheel weights contain antimony plus lead rarely any tin, lead head nails are pure lead, old lead piping is pure also, stick solder varies between 25 and 50% tin the stick will be stamped with the number.
I use mostly wheel weights and add tin as solder if needed. I make about 5 kg at a time. Ive never been too hung up on specific alloys but i do test a new batch by casting a bullet and putting it nose to nose with one from the last lot in a vice and seeing if they compress the same.
Pure lead i only use for round ball or mine.
Its a long dark rabbit hole you are starting down that inevitably leads to paper patching and strange behaviour like looking for lost sinkers at the beach.
For your 44, and low power loads pure lead would be ok but i suspect wheel weight or pretty much any alloy would do.