I'll clamber up on my box of Tide again...
This "Harder is Better" idea is horse puckey. It probably started when bullet casters started adding tin to lead and ended up with harder bullets. But why did they add tin? NOT to make harder bullets, but to make the mould fill out better. Lead/tin alloy fills out small details like crimp and lube grooves a lot better than pure lead. Better formed bullets shot better, and so began the harder is better nonsense.
We now have cast bullets made of all kinds of alloys, up to and including silver, for Pete's sake. All vying to be harder than the other fellow's bullets. All while ignoring the fact that pure lead muzzleloading bullets continue to shoot well and kill well. And all while seeking better expansion in every other kind of bullet they shoot through the use of soft lead bullet cores.
Some times, I think we're just nuts.
