just a question....
has anyone come up with a comparable composite that can take leads place in ammo?
“has anyone come up with a comparable composite that can take lead’s place in ammo?”
Yes. But not in density.
Search Barnes.
Solid copper bullets work well for hunting, but obviously going to be more expensive. Tungsten and bismuth are used as substitutes for lead in fishing weighs.
Depleted uranium...
> has anyone come up with a comparable composite that can take leads place in ammo?
Short answer... NO!
Steel wears the rifling too fast.
Copper is fine for shooting, but is much more poisonous than lead. (A wounded animal can live for years with a piece of lead, but the same size piece of copper will form copper salts and poison them to an agonizing death.) In the 1700s and 1800s copper musket balls were labeled as poisonous by International Law. I don’t know if it’s still true; we have better battlefield surgery now and the copper would be removed by a surgeon before it got to the poison stage.
How about spent uranium? used in tank ammo. /s
Tungsten and depleted uranium come to mind, I'd stick to lead if at all possible.
Regards,
GtG