I dropped in here just to see those pictures! Great to see you are up and running.
Enjoy the hobby!
Willie T
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I dropped in here just to see those pictures! Great to see you are up and running.
Enjoy the hobby!
Willie T
When your reloads won’t chamber something is far enough out of spec. your cartridge won’t fit. Figure out what is out of spec & where and you can address the cause. Take one of your loaded cartridges...
Forum: Cast Boolits
For loading full power .357 Magnum, H-110 is my favorite powder. Meters well. Top velocity. Top accuracy. Low ES out of a rifle. The most consistent powder I’ve found for full house .357 magnum...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As needed depending on if I want to cast for low, medium, or high velocity. I only have two pots. One 20 pound bottom pour and a 20 pound for ladle pouring or pre heating alloy for marathon bottom...
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You are welcome but no thanks are necessary. Just post up a few pictures of some 9mm bullets you cast! Make sure to scrub your mold well before you start. There will be instructions inside the box....
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Those tumble lube molds are easy to cast with. Before you start:
1. Make a billet and get a pair of welding gloves. A wooden hammer handle with the last 3”-4” of the big end wrapped in duct tape...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I would do like Larry said and use formula B to make Lyman No2. Use the 90-5-5 Lyman No2 for high pressure/velocity rifle stuff and magnum handgun projectiles. Further mix the Lyman No2 1/1 with pure...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I would have paid what you paid and sure be hoping some caster mixed Linotype 50/50 with pure soft lead in their garage and poured those ingots. A near perfect alloy for a caster to do further work...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you have to talk yourself into loading and shooting them, melt them down. Pour two pot fulls and turn them into something you want to load. That’s why we do what we do as casters.
Willie
Forum: Cast Boolits
Been following along. Your mold pictures are telling. All that pookie on the mold faces has to come off. Same with the top of the mold and the sprue plate. If anything is stuck to the pins or...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Lyman No2 is by far the best alloy I’ve used for high pressure loads. It is hard to enough that I have never had problems with swaging a cast bullet during seating. It is soft enough to get good...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I load .45 acp, .38 special, & .357 magnum @ .38 velocity with 50/50 (clip on/stick on wheel weights). Never pushed it much past 800 fps or gas checked it though. It casts fine for me after the mold...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I use clip on wheel weights and tin to cast and load for a Marlin .357/.38 lever gun with micro grooves. It is a really fun firearm. For plinking .38’s in the carbine, I use wheel weights and gas...
Forum: Cast Boolits
For melting down wheel weights, dipping out the clips, fluxing out the crud, and pouring into ingots, a thermometer to keep the temperature down around 650-675 Fahrenheit will avoid mixing zinc into...
Forum: Cast Boolits
More often than not there is no advertised data for the exact cast Bullets we load. That is not a problem if we stick to basics. Weigh what you are loading. Regardless of what numbers are on a mold,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A good reminder about distraction to us all. It’s been 30 something years ago. I was a twenty something year old newlywed. On a Friday evening I was loading up 500 hollow base wad cutters with a...
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I’m not the one making the big deal about testing methods. I’m not trying to besmirch RotoMetals either. I have never bought casting alloys from them. I mix my own. I have had some of my own alloys...
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Have you had the alloys tested for content? What you had tested consistently came back with pretty close numbers for hardness. Have you verified that it is in fact 96.8% lead and 3.2% tin? Testing...
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Out of curiosity did you have the content of the alloy tested? For me that would be the final piece of the puzzle. Was the alloy actually 30/1 lead/tin? I own the Lee tester. I never use the hardness...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Don’t over think this. 1-20 and 20-1 are different. Same as 1-16 and 16-1. I’m guessing you have 20-1 and want to turn it into 16-1. The math is simple. 20-1 has 21 equal parts. 16-1 has 17 equal...
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Thank you Tom. Makes perfect sense. I think that squares me away.
Willie
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That mold appears to be exactly what I’m looking for. I got on their website and tried to order one and got tangled up in some of their specs. .000-.002 tolerance and which size of iron blocks to...
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Thank you for taking the time to make that suggestion sir. Is it a gas checked mold?
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |