Boolits from every mould?

[Dave C.]

Do you have boolits cast from every mould you own?
I'm not talking a life time supply, but a hundred or so
just in case you need to try a new load and it's not a
good day to cast? I try to have at least 250 of the
little used boolits up to 5,000 of my most used boolits.
I don't mean loaded ammo.


Dave C.

[btroj]

Not even close. I have moulds I haven't cast from in many, many years.

[trying2learn]

Yes but i don't have that many molds yet. I found more bullets today i forgot i had.

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[Jim]

Not even close. I have moulds I haven't cast from in many, many years.

Ditto.

[Leadmelter]

Part of the addiction process. I keep an inventory of all my boolits so I don't waste time making more of what I already have.
Gerry
MI

[mpmarty]

Very few. I cast a hundred or two at a time, lube and let age then load and shoot. Repeat as necessary. I have some molds I don't cast with anymore such as a 230gr Lee TC/TL that I got for my XD45 and since I sold it I am back to my 200gr swc which won't function in an XD.

[stubshaft]

I usually do. The bad thing is when I use some of the older boolits and find a great load for a mold that I have already sold.

[williamwaco]

Yes, at least a couple hundred.

Couple of thousand of my favorites.

( Please don't tell the reporters on me )

[40Super]

So far I have about 500 of some and 1000 of the 200gr swc's for comp shooting. I like to have them cast ahead so they can be aged already when I load them.

[Dale53]

I regularly load for .32 S&W Long/.32 H&R Mag; .38 Special/.357 Magnum; .44 Special/.44 Magnum; .45 ACP/.45 Colt. I have several thousand bullets cast for each of those. I will NOT be in the place where I need/want to shoot a particular caliber and don't have bullets. Not gonna happen.

Dale53

[theperfessor]

I have large coffee cans filled with the bullets I use the most - lots of 358429, 358477, 358-125RF, 358311, 429421, etc. Probably more than 500 and less than a 1000 of each. I have more than 80 molds, but right now I've only got about 14 different bullet styles cast up.

Some molds I bought just to fill out a set and some are not as good as the ones I use a lot but I keep them just in case they might work better in a new gun.

[btroj]

I am like the perfesser, I have lots for the ones I use most, none for the others.

I suppose it depends upon how many moulds you hae. For a guy with 30 to 50 moulds it means lots of lead tied up in bullets that may never be shot.

[prs]

I've got lots of mould for which I have no guns...

prs

[theperfessor]

prs, I hear ya there! Got a couple like that myself. But they were SUCH a bargain at the time...

[Castlead]

I have molds that have never been used yet. So no i don't have finished product from all of them.

[runfiverun]

i was gonna say no because i had swaged up the last run i made.
then remembered i have about a thousand of them lubed, sized and checked.
i think i have a few hundred cast up for every mold i have, even stranger is i have boolits here from a mold i have never owned.

[captaint]

I keep a pretty good stash of most of the boolits I use (most often). I'll bet I have at least 10 molds that are still new in the box. One of these days............ enjoy Mike

[bobthenailer]

My least used mould has made about 400 bullets the most used about 67,000 . i allways keep a good supply of bullets usually about 1,000 to 3,000 bullets from each of my 25 moulds. i store most of my bullets in bulk in 2 1/2 gallon buckets and refill them to the top when casting season comes in Febuary, last Feb i made a little over 20,000 cast bullets which is a extreem, i usually only make about 10,000

[x101airborne]

I dont keep boolits from every mold, I do have a few thousand of my most used cast up and ready to go.

[Casper29]

I keep between 100 and 250 of what I shoot the most of on hand all the time, this keeps them on a continues cycle, I have cast with every mold that I have but I do not keep any on hand for which I do not have a gun to shoot them with, I cast for some friends so I do not use those molds that often.

[MT Chambers]

I prolly have 150 or so molds that I don't use at all for myself, I have tested all of the bullets from them but use the mold to make bullets for others, I prolly have 250 or so molds, none are Lee molds, but from all the makers otherwise.

[plainsman456]

The only ones that i do not have any cast for is a 32 pistol mold.
I do not have anything that shoots it.

[coloraydo]

I have around a thousand each for my main calibers, several hundred for other guns. Still working on load developement for several.

[Jon]

I usually cast 300-400 at a time so that I don't have to cast too often. It's a bit of a project to get everything out and warmed up.

I do have some molds that I haven't cast from yet since I don't have everything else I need to load that caliber.

Right now, I just load for 45acp and 38spl.

Rifle loads are next on the list, but I haven't tried any yet.

[Four-Sixty]

I think of the whole process as a supply chain. I like to have some cast, some lubed and some loaded. I only have about 8 molds so it is not too much to keep this up. Usually, I'll cast one of my favorites for most of a session, then grab a mold for something I am low on and cast a few of that mold to round out the inventory.

If there is a SHTF senario, I do not want to be smelting just so that I can start casting. Be prepared!

[kir_kenix]

I have somewhere between 1k and 10k of the boolits I shoot regularly. I have maybe 20 molds currently that I have absolutely no boolits on hand for. A dozen or so that have less than 500 and a handful with less than 100.

I found my wife likes cast boolits, so when I'm loading in the shop she casts pistol boolits. Since we spend a couple evening a week in the shop, she casts fairly small runs of many different boolits. They add up and it keeps her from getting bored while I load us LR Benchrest ammo or handgun fodder.

[wv109323]

Once I cast a supply of boolits up they seem to disappear down the barrel of my guns. I need .358 158 SWC and .356 124 TC and .431 245 SWC and...........Now.

[NoZombies]

Do you have boolits cast from every mould you own?

Nope. I haven't even cast with every mold I own.

[dragon813gt]

I've been running through more rounds then I've been producing lately. I prefer to not keep bullets stored by their lonesome. They like to be stored in nice brass cases w/ powder and primers under them. I still have molds I haven't cast with.


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