Wilson
01-05-2012, 06:15 PM
I just wanted to express my thanks to the members here for your help when I first started casting three or four years ago.
The information that you’ve shared with me via responses to my questions or even more so, everything I’ve gleaned from reading through the site has made a major difference in my family’s shooting.
The first year was a real bear trying to get through the learning curve, not to mention find a supply of wheel weights, but we made it.
When I began it was purely for economical reasons. There are six shooters in my family and several more worthy kids in our church. Casting was the ticket for dramatically stretching our shooting budget and it has worked out very well. Up until last year I cast only 9mm 125 grain RN from a Lee 6 cavity mold and 147 grain from a Lyman 4 cavity. 30K boolits later I’m very comfortable with the process, comfortably dropping a bit more than 1k per hour. In addition, my youngest son (17) and his good buddy are able to man our second pot, casting just as good as I can. They also man the Star which really helps!
Last year I started casting for my .444 Handi with a 310 grain Lee mold that was suggested by one of you. I after applying the GC and lubing with Carnauba red, everyone agreed that was a pretty boolit! It has worked very well too. Last year I killed a couple of varmints and this year I took a nice meat doe and a good pig with that bullet. As you CB hunters know making meat with your own handloaded CB adds a bit more satisfaction to the whole process.
I cast my first HP last month, a 9mm Lyman Devastator and I just received my fist MiHec mold in 40 cal HP and I’m on two group buys.
Last month while volume casting 9mm and .40 for the 2012 USPSA season I found my self thoroughly enjoying to the whole process. I cast in 3 or 4 hour secessions and it wasn’t long before I had 187# of 9mm and 67# of .40. That’ll give us a good start.
So all that to say thanks gentlemen. By the way, I just signed up as a TeamBoolits patron.
Best regards to all.
The information that you’ve shared with me via responses to my questions or even more so, everything I’ve gleaned from reading through the site has made a major difference in my family’s shooting.
The first year was a real bear trying to get through the learning curve, not to mention find a supply of wheel weights, but we made it.
When I began it was purely for economical reasons. There are six shooters in my family and several more worthy kids in our church. Casting was the ticket for dramatically stretching our shooting budget and it has worked out very well. Up until last year I cast only 9mm 125 grain RN from a Lee 6 cavity mold and 147 grain from a Lyman 4 cavity. 30K boolits later I’m very comfortable with the process, comfortably dropping a bit more than 1k per hour. In addition, my youngest son (17) and his good buddy are able to man our second pot, casting just as good as I can. They also man the Star which really helps!
Last year I started casting for my .444 Handi with a 310 grain Lee mold that was suggested by one of you. I after applying the GC and lubing with Carnauba red, everyone agreed that was a pretty boolit! It has worked very well too. Last year I killed a couple of varmints and this year I took a nice meat doe and a good pig with that bullet. As you CB hunters know making meat with your own handloaded CB adds a bit more satisfaction to the whole process.
I cast my first HP last month, a 9mm Lyman Devastator and I just received my fist MiHec mold in 40 cal HP and I’m on two group buys.
Last month while volume casting 9mm and .40 for the 2012 USPSA season I found my self thoroughly enjoying to the whole process. I cast in 3 or 4 hour secessions and it wasn’t long before I had 187# of 9mm and 67# of .40. That’ll give us a good start.
So all that to say thanks gentlemen. By the way, I just signed up as a TeamBoolits patron.
Best regards to all.