New to the game

[skruske]

Until now, all I've had to do was smelt & refine the accumulation of lead into ingots. I just started casting my own. That's because my full time casting staff up & moved out to the outdoors man's paradise, Wyoming.

First up has been 450gr slugs from a Lee 90281 mold. After reloading the 12ga hulls I got the results I had hoped for. Good enough for home defense/recreational shooting. At least my steel buffalo thought so. :mrgreen:

Follow that exercise, I stumbled into a pair of Lyman molds in .36cal & .44cal. Those will be loaded up for #000 Buckshot & perhaps a duplex load with both combined. 6ea .36cal pellets work out to about 1oz while just 3 .44cal balls come in just under 1oz. I suspect those will make the steel buffalo shed a tear as well.

Here's what I've done so far. That casting stuff requires a lot of patience.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/firstcastings.jpg

For the record, I take blame for Dk17hmr turning out the way he is.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/skruske/Doug2yrsold22.jpg

[DIRT Farmer]

So what are you telling us, You "have" to go to Wyoming?

[Dean D.]

Welcome to Cast Boolits! Just watch out for that Doug fella, he'll get ya in trouble!

[RobS]

Welcome aboard and I once sold dk17hmr a heavy 45 cal Keith style bullet mold that he enjoys shooting from his SRH. Cool to have another father/son combo as my dad is on here from time to time as well.

[thx997303]

Well, your son was quite friendly inviting myself and my friend for a weekend of prairie dog shooting.

Seems like you have the casting thing down.

Hope you enjoy it.

[leadman]

Yes, you raised that boy right! He offered to help me on a Wyoming antelope hunt when I posted here.
Unfortunately there were no tags left in the area he is hunting.
Fortunately there was another member here that helped me in another area, so in a couple of weeks wife and I are headed to Wyoming.

[Markbo]

Hey Skruske! Even old Prairie Dog Shooters end up casting, huh? :D