Lead for ML use can never be TOO SOFT! I have even used pure, dead-soft lead bullets in the .45/70 at velocities up to 1350 FPS in both BP and smokeless loads with good accuracy and no leading! 
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"It seems very difficult to impress most reloaders with the fact that every rifle is an individual, and what proves to be a maximum load in one may be quite mild in another, and vice versa." Bob Hagel, GAME LOADS AND "PRACTICAL BALLISTICS FOR THE AMERICAN HUNTER, 1977
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"If you are 20 years old and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are 40 and not a conservative, you have no brain!" W. Churchill
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