You might be a Caster if....

[fng]

... mama can never find a muffin tin in her kitchen.

Next...

[Smoke4320]

you cover you face every time you hear a popping sound

[1911KY]

if you get excited about going to the salvage yard!!! or a tire shop!!!

[Hickory]

If your wife's favorite crock pot changed from cooking food to cooking boolit lube.

[sundog]

...you horde saw dust for fluxing.

...you understand what a 'trusted loob groove salesman' is.

[dilly]

You have ever jumped out of your car at a busy intersection to get a wheel weight.

[1911KY]

sprue is an everyday term!

[Bohica793]

You own more molds than pairs of underwear.......and you change molds more often.

[oldpapps]

You are more interested in collecting the spent bullets at a range than shooting any. I sort the FMJ from the softpoint/HPs from the boolets as others shoot.... Why do they look at me that way?

Enjoy,

OSOK

[bhn22]

you'll stop and pickup a used wheelweight in a parking lot, but you won't bend over to pick up a penny.

[CHeatermk3]

...Your boots wear silvery glitter...

[leebuilder]

When you gather up used candle numbs for flux and boolit lube.

When you giggle like a little girl after you find and big metal spoon at the dollar store, so you can use it as a skimmer or ladle

[ballistim]

... you don't have any money left in your bank account because you bought too many molds!

[gwpercle]

You make your kids run out into the street to grab wheel weights lying in the road. They are faster than you.
Take them to the shopping mall to prowl the parking lot looking for wheel weights.
Have moulds for cartridges you have never, and probably never will , have guns for.
Buy moulds just because they are old and cheap.

No lie, I ran out onto a busy highway, just the other day, because a huge metal spoon was lying in the road. I could have been killed but I had to have that free spoon. It had only minor run over by a few cars damage and will work great next time I smelt .

This is getting good!
Gary

[dmitch]

When a "friend" asks to borrow one of your molds, you can be heard shouting "I'd rather be poked in the eye with a sharp stick!"

[hockeynick39]

When you look at different types of work gloves and welding gloves like women look at new pairs of shoes! "Do you think these will accent my forearms any!" "Stripes versus solid colors make the hair on my arms stand out, ew!"

[beagle]

Your levi's have glitter (lead splashings) around the crotch area./beagle

[Abenaki]

when you use boolit lube for mustache wax!

[Rick O'Shay]

You have a hard time remembering the phone numbers of friend and family, but you can resight the mold numbers from a Lyman catalog.

[Bohica793]

You have a hard time remembering the phone numbers of friend and family, but you can resight the mold numbers from a Lyman catalog.

^^^ This

[leeggen]

If you were out casting in this frigid weather in your carport.
CD

[JohnH]

You can tell pure lead from lead/tin or antimonial lead by the color of the oxide patina

[RED333]

You ask for your old WW of your wheels when you buy new tries, I did this just this week.

[trapper9260]

You drive down the road and hope to see some wheel weights, also when you at a flea market you see what they have for cast pots that is bigger then the one you have for smelting.
Also when you see at the flea market if they have any molds you can use or think might need.
When you talk about use of lead you really say alloy not lead.

[Smoke4320]

You belong to the $1000 club

" no honey he mistyped and added an extra zero. It the $100 club

[wv109323]

When you buy your wife ingots instead of chocolates for Valentines Day.

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You shop for rifles based on the twist!

[prs]

You over-hear the chef mention something about mold and wonder if he is a boolit caster too.

Rooster

[500MAG]

You have several moulds for guns you don't even own.

[pworley1]

You get a mold then start buying rifles looking for the best results for it.

[h8dirt]

Grandma asks why you are giving her pewter candlestick holders the stink eye.

[TXGunNut]

You drop by the loading room after a long day at work just to sniff the RCBS NRA lube.

[30Carbine]

If you tell the lady at the thrift store not to wrap those up, you tell her you have no idea what I am going to do to those in the parking lot. maybe it's just me. they all try to wrap up pewter items like there something special.

[lightman]

If you sit around the dinner table at deer camp and talk about the alloy % of newer coww vs older coww, soww, Lyman #2, hardball, the type metals and cable sheathing. Solder and Pewter may come up during these conversations, too! Then you show off the bucket of ww's that you scored on the way to camp.:-o

[Bigslug]

Whenever you see the current price for an ounce of gold, you immediately calculate how many pounds of Lyman #2 that works out to.

[MBTcustom]

You show up to Sunday service wearing jeans that have lead splatter on them along with your boots. When asked about it, you simply reply that those are your best cloths and have the least amount of lead on them (true story).

Castboolits.com is your homepage.

You open your truck door and Boolits fall out.

[flyingmonkey35]

When the guys at work as you to make them cheap bullets. And you start to explain that there not cheap just inexpensive.

That 1 thousand of a inch really dose make a difference.

[pretzelxx]

When you tell your wife you won't shoot any the next time you go to the range. You just want to collect what everyone shot...

[Lead Fred]

You notice a gal sun bathing with here top on the sand......

You left your ladles on the floor to cool

[GaryN]

You count your boolits by the weighing the container and dividing by the weight of a boolit.

You have containers all over the gun room full of boolits.

[RogerDat]

If you have ever sat in a folding chair looking at some buckets of wheel weights and just basked in the pride of ownership long enough for your coffee to get cold or your beer to get warm. Probably are. If you dream of doing it again? Most certainly.

[6mm win lee]

You have pictures of ingots/buckets of WW/finished bullets in your wallet instead of wife and kids.

[Swede 45]

You watch the Alien 3 movie and get jealous on the amount of lead dropped on that beast...

[jonp]

You figure your overtime not by the amount of money you are making but the weight in lead/molds/dies you can buy.

Hmm..today I'm working 5 extra hours which should be good for 100lbs COWW, 2 molds and that crimp die I wanted

[JSnover]

You downloaded or bookmarked calculators for velocity/boolit weight, alloy composition and mold design.

[bessemer20]

You plan trips to the range by when our cowboys shoot to pick up their boolits afterwards.

[Bigslug]

You make lowball offers on guns no one can find factory ammo for.

[Bigslug]

When the pirate captain orders you to be keel-hauled, you steal his keel.

[cbrick]

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[Yodogsandman]

Now that's funny!

[tmc-okc]

You know the tinsel fairy by her first name..
Ron H

[Bigslug]

You know the tinsel fairy by her first name..
Ron H

The first time that I met Aiiiiieeegh Sonova Beech I was. . .

[detox]

You have shiny lead spatter stuck to your boots or jeans weeks after casting.

Or you post in this stupid forum.

[TXGunNut]

On Monday morning you can show co-workers the difference between first, second and third degree burns...but hopefully not too often.

[10mmShooter]

You might be a Caster if...on a Sunday morning at 730am you get out of bed and check the forum before you pickup the paper or turn on the TV or even get a cup of coffee. You have to have your priorities right :)

[truckerdave397]

You need a fork truck to handle your reloading and casting supplies.

[mdi]

Yep, ya gotta be a dedicated caster to have read through 3 pages of these silly posts...

[rockrat]

You are lying in bed, snuggled up next to you wonderful wife, and it pops in your head "gee, I need to make up some more alloy tomorrow, I'm almost out", then you start using the alloy calculator in your head. THEN, she asks you what you are thinking!!

THAT is the time that telling the TRUTH will get you HURT!!! :bigsmyl2:

[jimb16]

When you go shopping at GoodWill for old pewter.
When you have buckets of unprocessed cowws in your garage.
When you have to ask "what's a J-word"?

[Bigslug]

When you work on alternative lyrics for the Modern English song Melt With You.

[GaryN]

When a bee keeper wants to put hives in your yard you say "sure". Not thinking about free honey but about free wax.

[Foto Joe]

I thought of this thread yesterday on the way back from Williams AZ on the bike. I pulled off I-40 at an exit to strip out of chaps and my heavy jacket after it warmed up. I'm standing by the bike and I look down and what do I see? A wheel weight embedded in the asphalt of course. Luckily for me it was a a steel otherwise I can visualize passersby seeing some idiot on his hands and knees with a pocket knife trying to pry that wheel weight out of the pavement.

A free boolit is a free boolit, I don't care where it comes from.

[mdi]

Experienced this the other day; walking through the fishing section at a local sporting goods store and feeling a little upset looking at the sinkers, "...all those wasted bullets"...

[flyingmonkey35]

Showing off your cast Boolits to your coworkers.

[gwpercle]

When your wife finally nags you enough to go walking with her and much to your surprise you come back home with wheel-weights! After that , you're the nagger!

You keep encouraging your daughter to marry a certain young man she has dated. Not because he's smart, rich or good looking, but because his father owns a tire business, the kid will one day become the manager and you , being "family" will be entitled to "free" wheel-weights!

[Doggonekid]

...you haven't thrown away a costco's nut jar in 10 years. They are all in the garage or your gunroom full of different colored boolits. You don't count your boolits by the box. You count them by the pound. You really know your a caster when you count them by fractions of a ton.

[Foto Joe]

...you haven't thrown away a costco's nut jar in 10 years.

Planters would be proud to know that I recycle.

[Horseman1]

You can tell a true fairy tale to the grand kids, that you are actually in.

[cs86]

You take your lyman book or load data with you on trips to look at.
You're excited to show your friends, or family what you produced from your casting session and how well they turned out.
You're more excited to bring home a pile of bullets from the berm then you were being able to go out and shoot.

[gwpercle]

You get a heavy, gift wrapped box for Christmas . After getting it open, you discover it's a box filled with dirty , grungy, used wheel-weights !
And you think it is the most awesome Christmas present you ever received, except for the first "real " gun your daddy gave you when you were 12 years old and that was 50 years ago.
My daughter knows her old man like a book....she's such a good girl!
Gary

[jim 44-40]

Your wife calls for you ( Hey get the lead out) or we will be late ,for dinner at moms

[WRideout]

The Cast Boolit forum is your only social networking site.
You save partially used birthday cake candles for fluxing.
Your kids give you brass for your milsurp rifles for Xmas.
(I have done all of those)

Wayne

[jonp]

You are lying in bed, snuggled up next to you wonderful wife, and it pops in your head "gee, I need to make up some more alloy tomorrow, I'm almost out", then you start using the alloy calculator in your head. THEN, she asks you what you are thinking!!

THAT is the time that telling the TRUTH will get you HURT!!! :bigsmyl2:

how about "wow, I need to put lime in the outhouse"? yes, I did that.....

[Texantothecore]

If you check the 24hr lead price every day.

You are permanently banned from expropriating kitchen hardware for casting.

If the people at Dollar Tree know your name.

If you have a ballistic calculator and an alloy calculator on your Iphone.

[Geezer in NH]

You own more molds than pairs of underwear.......and you change molds more often.That hit near home dude. :bigsmyl2:

[oger]

You bought a 6 cavity H&G mold to exercise your bad left shoulder instead of a dumbbell.

[sewerman68]

You have ever stopped on a busy freeway to throw a lubrisizer into the Chatahoochee river that you spent nearly 6 months trying to make work properly.

[sukivel]

You have several moulds for guns you don't even own.

Is this bad?

Or is this what my wife is talking about when she says "you're in denial"?

[Land Owner]

...they can't get that grin off of your face with a wire brush after you shoot an entire 100 yard, 10-shot group, in the X-ring from your OWN remanufactured rounds and alloy boolits!

[rintinglen]

you reinforce the flooring on your casting shed to withstand the weight.

[michiganmike]

You are adamant. You are not going to put down good money for a lube-sizer when tumble has meet all of your needs for years. Then, you put in a bid on a used one on EBay "just for fun." And when your bid wins, you are secretly pleased to have a new toy to play with. [Just happened to me yesterday.] Top punch and resizing die are on order.

[michiganmike]

You might be a caster if, you wake up, and the sun is out, the weatherman says the temp will get close to 50 and you get excited BECAUSE that means you can set shop outside and melt down that half a bucket of fine quality COWW you have been saving for just such a day.

That was me today. Each wheel weight was individually checked at the scrap yard. Not a zinc, iron, or other metal weight in the lot. Nothing put prime COWW wheel weights. In two hours I had around 25-30# (guestimate) of ingots ready to be cast. An afternoon well spent.