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That's kinda nit pickin' isn't it. The term hard cast is used by all of the old hands I know and many of them have more than my 28 years of reloading experience. Swaging and casting are 2 entirely different processes. For most of us, the term hard cast refers to any alloy at Lyman's #2 at 15 BHN or harder.
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Are they not both lead bullets? I just get tired of the term hard cast used to somehow signify they're better that other cast lead bullets. Are wheel weight bullets hard cast? That term is tossed around so much no one really knows what it means.
As far as my experience, I started when I was 15, I'm 67 now. Time enough to see some trends come and go. I started casting 44 mag 240 Lyman SWC for sillywet practice. Wheel weights were plentiful and often free. They made great bullets, and were not "
hard cast!"