tarbe
04-20-2008, 10:07 AM
I started casting boolits at the ripe old age of 17. Some time during my 4 year enlistment in the Marines I lost my way and went to store bought only. I thought I didn't have time for casting.
Now time is even more precious, but I am back in the fold!
My son and I spent some time last night out in the driveway smelting linotype into ingots (I wonder what my yuppie neighbors thought?). Tonight we will do the same with 50 lbs of wheel weights.
Here's the kicker...while smelting the lino we couldn't resist pouring a couple bullets, just for the heck of it. I used straight lino some in the old days and figured this could be a real interest booster for the boy (not that he really needed any encouraging!).
I heated up the mold in the pot for a couple minutes and we poured 6 boolits. The first two came out very slightly wrinkled. The next 4 came out looking like a million bucks and the scale has them at 285.0, 284.9, 284.7 and 284.7 (this is the 300gr Lee).
We will be casting primarily for a RBH 45LC. Fortunately the throats on this gun are .452, so I should be able to put together a decent load.
Anyway, I am glad to be here, glad to have some alloy in my garage, glad to have a boy to shoot, load and now cast with, glad to live in the best country on earth.
Thanks for all the good reading here, and thanks for the civil tone. And thanks for letting me share my re-entry to boolit making! I am looking forward to all the experimentation!
Tim
Now time is even more precious, but I am back in the fold!
My son and I spent some time last night out in the driveway smelting linotype into ingots (I wonder what my yuppie neighbors thought?). Tonight we will do the same with 50 lbs of wheel weights.
Here's the kicker...while smelting the lino we couldn't resist pouring a couple bullets, just for the heck of it. I used straight lino some in the old days and figured this could be a real interest booster for the boy (not that he really needed any encouraging!).
I heated up the mold in the pot for a couple minutes and we poured 6 boolits. The first two came out very slightly wrinkled. The next 4 came out looking like a million bucks and the scale has them at 285.0, 284.9, 284.7 and 284.7 (this is the 300gr Lee).
We will be casting primarily for a RBH 45LC. Fortunately the throats on this gun are .452, so I should be able to put together a decent load.
Anyway, I am glad to be here, glad to have some alloy in my garage, glad to have a boy to shoot, load and now cast with, glad to live in the best country on earth.
Thanks for all the good reading here, and thanks for the civil tone. And thanks for letting me share my re-entry to boolit making! I am looking forward to all the experimentation!
Tim