Casting, How bad do you got it?

[rosewood]

Hey guys, been reloading for about 10 years or so and just decided to get into casting a few months back and made my first cast about 2 weeks back. Other sites recommended CastBoolits if you cast, so here I am. I think I am hooked on casting. I now find myself scanning the ground every time I walk across a parking lot looking for liberated wheel weights. I even find myself looking to see what type of wheel weights are on the adjacent car at a traffic light.

Anyone else have these problems? Will it get worse?

Rosewood

[RED333]

My son will laugh when I pick up a WW and say in a loud and proud voice "I found a boolit".
Keep looking for lead, it does not get better.

[sthwestvictoria]

Lee Pro 20lb on the bedside table for those times I wake in the night.

[mold maker]

Yep. That's the symptoms of a hooked caster. Welcome to the addiction.

[rosewood]

My son will laugh when I pick up a WW and say in a loud and proud voice "I found a boolit".
Keep looking for lead, it does not get better.

I am guessing one day I will be able to tell you how many boolits I can get out of that size of wheel weight. :mrgreen:

It is like finding change on the ground.

[Garyshome]

Not bad enough to cast when it's 100 outside!

[knobster]

Every time I go to the range I spend 75% of my time doing two things: picking up brass and digging bullets out of the dirt berm.

[rosewood]

I have been casting in 90+deg weather, got my pot and burner sit just inside my garage in the shade and a fan blowing for ventilation and cooling.

I always spend time looking for brass and this last trip, I dug in the berm for scrap lead for the first time. Took a colander with me so it would be easier to sort.

[MrWolf]

I was in Florida on vacation and had stopped at a Costco. Found a wheel weight on the ground and was happy. Put it in my carryon bag for the plane. Wonder what the xray person thought? :castmine:

[MaryB]

Lead addiction, we need a lead anonymous....

[bobthenailer]

Bad enough to make over 500,000 cast boolets and shoot most of them myself in the last 45 years !
Every time i go to the range i always scrounge for brass at the shooting line and bullets at the target berm, been doing it so long its a habit ! that pays off i have collected well over 20,000 pieces of brass and a few tons of cast & jacketed boolets , in my last big smelt i ended up with 47 lbs of bullet jackets.

[Blanco]

Welcome to the dark side
You can check out any time you like .... but you can never leave!

[1989toddm]

I just started casting a few months ago and yes I still watch intersections for weights. Just couple days ago I (I think) convinced a tire shop to save weights for me. We will see how well that goes in a month or so.

[Garyshome]

I only have it real ban when I don't have any Boolitz.

[Beagle333]

"Bad" is a Christmas tree timer hooked to your PID so the pot is almost to temp when you pull in the driveway after work. :holysheep

[mold maker]

Bad is when your 4 tumblers make so much noise, it keeps you and the neighbors awake.

[GL49]

Bad is when the conversation at work drifts around to reloading and you can pull cartridge and boolit samples out of your pocket.

When I get to the point of keeping my casting pot on my nightstand, as mentioned above, I know I'm about where I need to be. :smile:

[Blanco]

A Lee Load All in the bathroom :bigsmyl2:

[rosewood]

Bad is when the conversation at work drifts around to reloading and you can pull cartridge and boolit samples out of your pocket.

When I get to the point of keeping my casting pot on my nightstand, as mentioned above, I know I'm about where I need to be. :smile:

Not in my pocket, but I have 2 45 Colts cartridges on my desk with no primer or gun powder that I use to explain reloading a lot.

[MrWolf]

I have some brass, bullets, and wheel weights in a plastic bag in my briefcase for the super secret discussions when I try and educate. I work for the County Government and Heaven forbid anyone knows I am pro-gun.

[Harter66]

Ok 1st things 1st ,I can quit any time I want....... I just don't want to quit right now .. [smile=1:

[dh2]

Lead addiction, we need a lead anonymous....
I have no addiction as long I I don't have any meetings to go to, OH NO does meeting up with some one to try out there mould count as a meeting?

[BNE]

My name is Barry and I am an addict..... Welcome to the addiction. It only gets better.

[TXGunNut]

Not in my pocket, but I have 2 45 Colts cartridges on my desk with no primer or gun powder that I use to explain reloading a lot.


I have samples from every mould I have lined up on the ledge of a back wall of the desk in my office, hope to add another boolit to the display Monday after I break in my new NOE mould this weekend.

[Four-Sixty]

I started a business so I could get reloading stuff at cost...

... about eight months later I am making "industrial" size orders.

[Teddo]

Try and explain to visitors why you need 10 reloading presses set up to reload and not sound like you are some kind of terrorist.I may have issues, then again I just could be a enthusiast... Teddo