Oldest boolit you still have??

[10 ga]

Just a question to see how long these things hang around. This is for Boolits only, NOT loaded ammo. How old is the oldest boolit you have that you cast (or helped in a group session), and how old is the oldest boolit you have that someone else cast?

.69 minnies that my brothers and I cast about 1964, still have about 200.

.38 rifle boolit cast by my great grandfather for his .38-70 Winchester. (that cal of Win was only made for 3 years I think. It's the only 38-70 I have ever seen) He has been dead for 70 years. My brother has the rifle and the mold. I think it is an Ideal.

10 ga

[deltaenterprizes]

At least 25 years old, that is when I started casting.

[izzyjoe]

somewhere if i can find 'em i've got some mini's from around 1863-1864. somebody else cast them of course. a friend of mine give them years ago he visited a battlefield in tenn i'm thinkin' , and dug them up. somebody may have died cause of these boolits. some history there. :cbpour:

[docone31]

I have no history here.
Aside from being divorced multiple times, and each time losing everything, my experiments at casting were a disaster!
I was so bad, I went to casting fishing weights, just so I could cast boolitts. I used RCBS, and Lyman molds. I got 0 results.
Advance the clock to just before 9-11 and I got some lead, and melted it. Four years later, I got a lee 20lb bottom pour, some Lee molds, and have been casting ever since.
The pot worked real well, the molds cast first time out, and I went straight into paper patching!
Full tilt loads with .30cal. I did not know castings needed sneeze loads! I guess my paper patches were the difference.
I have been doing it ever since. Reloading since the '70s, casting since 9-11.
Pure lead, mixes, and Zinc. I mold all of them. I use the zinc with paper.
The first ones were exciting, now they are boring.

[454PB]

While doing an inventory, I found 50 pounds of Lyman 454424 boolits with a note enclosed. I cast and water dropped them in 1983. These are not my oldest, just the only ones that had a date.

[Tom-ADC]

Over 30 years old I've been out of the Navy that long lots of everything left over.

[mold maker]

Hensley Gibbs .45 cal. 230gr SWC cast in 1963. I didn't have a .45 cal handgun, but got the mold in a trade, and learned to cast with it. Still have a coffee can half full.

[HangFireW8]

How old is the oldest boolit you have that you cast (or helped in a group session),

Still have a few of my first batch, for 45/70 pictured in my avatar, from Dec 2008.



and how old is the oldest boolit you have that someone else cast?


Fired and unfired from Gettysburg, PA, circa 1863, recovered by my Grandfather from private land about 75 years ago.

-HF

[stubshaft]

Lee 30-150 from 1978. Cast some up for my Mdl. 64 30/30 and my brother shot some with Pyrodex and didn't clean the barrel. Looked like a sewer pipe when I got it back. Just never got around to loading the rest of them.

[AZ Pete]

I still have a couple of 148 g. .358 wad cutters that I cast in about 1968. Found them in a small box in my reloading stuff. I also found some 158 g. SWC's that I pulled from some old ammo, that I cast in about 1977, they are in my scrap lead bucket.

[Shiloh]

somewhere if i can find 'em i've got some mini's from around 1863-1864. somebody else cast them of course. a friend of mine give them years ago he visited a battlefield in tenn i'm thinkin' , and dug them up. somebody may have died cause of these boolits. some history there. :cbpour:

I've got a couple of these as well, No way to know if they are that old but darn close.
Certainly from that era. Hope he didn't mean that I actually cast.

[dnepr]

lyman smooth sided slugs , first thing I learned to cast about 15 years ago

[Will]

358429hp bought a box of 100 for $3.95 september 1958. Still have about 30. They were made with WW and lubed with waterpump grease. boolits and lube still look good.

[John Boy]

How old is the oldest boolit you have that you cast
Got a mess of TC Maxi bullets - vintage about 1964

[Cherokee]

Got some 30 cal boolits I cast back in 1974.

[jonk]

Jeez, I have no idea. I don't write down the date or year I cast them.

I'd guess some .440 round balls from maybe 5 years ago or so but that's the only thing I don't cast a lot of and haven't cast in awhile.

[44mag1]

How about the oldest reloading components, I know someone who has, and still uses, primers in the wooden boxes.

[Lead Fred]

1882 UMC 45-70 best buck I ever spent