Casting season is over.

[Dave B]

It hit 100 today,and bullet casting season is over. I hope I have enough to see me through.

[dromia]

I'm sure we must have hit the mid 60s today. :-D

Great weather for working out side. Still when the sun broke through you got a sweat on.

[quietmike]

It's been in the mid 90's with 80+% humidity all week here.

Good thing I rotate back to night shift at the end of the month.

[JeffinNZ]

Boy, you Yanks have a season for everything. Deer, rabbits, grouse, squirrels, casting.................[smilie=1:

[sundog]

Regardless of what the wx guys say, we hit right at a hunert today today and the water was 'flowing' out of the ground. I worked outside, kinda easy, sat on the tractor mowing for several hours, then doing some clean up work out back, and when I finally came in, I was DONE. Sweat good, too. Feels good trying to return to 'normal' after January surgery. I took a cool shower, opened a cold one, now I'm here...

[miestro_jerry]

We had upper 90 degree, humid weather, then cooler weather, then rainy weather. That doesn't stop me from casting, well maybe the rain does if I cast out doors.

I am trying to build a foundry building near my shop and then I can cast when ever the mood strikes me.

:castmine:

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Jerry

[Shiloh]

Yup, it just about is. Fortunately it is shooting season other than the occasional pot or two in the cooler evenings.

Shiloh

[DLCTEX]

I loaded some 38's and 257's today, It was sizzeling but I had a fan blowing on me and kept at it for a few hours. I've got to get my swamp cooler going in my reloading building so I won't be working in the sauna. DALE

[ANeat]

Nuthin like getting a little sweat in the lead to keep ya on your toes[smilie=1:

[RustyFN]

It was nice here today. It cooled down to 84 so I decided to do a little smelting today.
Rusty
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[Boerrancher]

Casting season never ends for me, except for this short break do to the shoulder surgery. The wife gave me a work room when we built our house, so I have both central air in the summer and heat in the winter. Works out great 'cept when I flux the pot since the blower and A coil are also in the work room, then the wife gets a bit annoyed. I am hoping that in 3 more weeks the Doc will let me start using it some and I can start casting again.

Best wishes from the Boer Ranch,

Joe

[PatMarlin]

It was nice here today. It cooled down to 84 so I decided to do a little smelting today.
Rusty
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Zappa's turned to boolit casting now?...:mrgreen:

[Dale53]

When I had my utility shed built, I included a dedicated casting station and fitted the building with A/C and Electric heat. I cast when the mood strikes, rain or shine, cold or hot. If I smelt during hot weather, I try to do it in the A.M. before it gets hot (do it on the driveway).

Dale53

[miestro_jerry]

Dale,

I am doing the same things, small building with A/C, a big propane tank, with a bullet casting area.

Jerry

[JIMinPHX]

110 in the shade here today...I'm still casting. When it hits 120 or when the monsoons hit, then I take a break.

[bruce drake]

I shifted my casting into the evenings during the summer when I was stationed further south than Upstate New York. Casting out in the garage last year in the winter took some dedication and a good propane heater to get the building above freezing.

[9.3X62AL]

Mid- to high 90's here for the past few days, I've done some cartridge refilling but no casting for a while. My current goal is to get all the fired brass refilled before next month's move, and only have a small lot to fire after packing the gear up late in the move process. There may be a 2-3 week hiatus this time, unlike last year's move with a 3 month-long lay-off that I never caught up with. That move enabled me to "streamline" the process, shouldn't be nearly as messed up this time around.

[Down South]

I'll cast some in the next few days. I do have a cool spot under my carport with a decent fan. I'm in the process of building a shop. Once it is completed I'll move all of my casting equipment into it. The shop will be insulated with 16' high walls. I'm having a 40" exhaust fan mounted in the top end wall to pull air through.

[madcaster]

Just find some shade and a bandana,yeah,I know us bald headed guys look funny wearing a bandana,BUT it keeps the sweat from hitting the molten lead.Try using a bottom pour pot for your casting,you don't have to be the object of the melting flame![smilie=1:

[NoDakJak]

Was low seventies here yesterday and sunny with light winds. What a change. Fired up the old turkey cooker and melted fifty six ingots of WW alloy. Was still beautiful this morning so headed for the range. Haven't been able to use it for about six weeks due to rain, mud and high winds. Not really very breezy here. One of the electric companys erected thirteen wind gererators several miles west of here last year. They told me that they are scheduled to erect another 287 of them. Hmmm! Anyway I tried the 250 Savage with several loads with 257312 boolits. Best group was 1 1/4" at fifty yards with 8.0 grains of PB. The groups should be half that size if I could ever tame that unruly trigger. Neil

[RustyFN]

Zappa's turned to boolit casting now?...:mrgreen:

OH yea.:drinks:
Rusty

[Sprue]

I wouldn't consider casting season as being over. If'n I needed to cast or smelt, the only thing that would keep me from it would be if the electric went off. I'm a die hard fanatic about my hobbies. So if I take the notion......

Just as rain doesn't bother a golfer(used to golf) summer temps won't effect my casting. When it comes to my hobbies, I'm very young at heart.:-D

[Sprue]

OH yea.:drinks:
Rusty

Mothers cast boolits ?

[chaos]

I loaded some 38's and 257's today, It was sizzeling but I had a fan blowing on me and kept at it for a few hours. I've got to get my swamp cooler going in my reloading building so I won't be working in the sauna. DALE

it's been in the upper 90's/ low 100's here for going on 3 to 4 weeks. I've had my swamp cooler fired up since may.


Casting season?????? Quit wearing your wife's panties.

[38 Super Auto]

Zappa's turned to boolit casting now?...:mrgreen:

Am I to understand the Sunburst Les Paul is part of the smelting gear?

[Jon K]

Try to do all my casting in the cooler months, and plan out my needs for the most used Boolits, but as the saying goes "The Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men" well you know how it goes..........so even though now we're having triple digit temps, I try to cast between 6-9 or 10 AM. I cast outside, so when it warms up I quit.

Al,

You moving again? Where to?

Jon

[TexasJeff]

That's why my shop is air-conditioned. I can cast or load either one regardlesss of weather.

Smelting? Well, it just gets hot but having grown up down here in Texas, you just get used to it.

Don't mean you like it, you just get used to it.

Jeff

[Echo]

Only hit a buck eight here yesterday, and supposed to be up to a buck nine today - but it's a dry heat. Right. The Weather Service has decreed that the official start of our monsoon season is June 15 - no matter whether the humidity is up or not. Sounds like some bureaucrat had to do SOMETHING. Before, the dew point had to hit 55 and stay there for three days before the monsoon was officially open. THAT made sense...
And will get back into casting soonest - am about finished repairing the SAECO, and have AC in the reloading cubby.

[Rooster]

Didn't Frank have a history of fire related incidents occurring in his past? "Smoke on the Water" Dang now I've got that song stuck in my head!

Dale,

What is this Swamp Cooler that you speak of? Off to google

[Dale53]

I'm the "other" Dale. A swamp cooler is used in extremely dry areas (desert) and cools by evaporation of water. It won't work well in humid areas (most of the country east of the Mississippi).

As a for instance, my daughter lives in Salt Lake City, UT (a dry area) and swamp coolers are quite popular there. I live in Ohio and we need REAL air conditioners with our humid weather.

Dale53

[PatMarlin]

Swap coolers work good here.

Humidity about 35%.

[quasi]

well it was 72 degrees f here today, the warmest of the year so far!!