Today folks, i decided to have a casting session, using the range waste bars i had made. On went the Lee electric furnace and in went 4 or 5 bars of clean range waste. I got the melt up to...
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Type: Posts; User: monkeyhanger
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Today folks, i decided to have a casting session, using the range waste bars i had made. On went the Lee electric furnace and in went 4 or 5 bars of clean range waste. I got the melt up to...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Yes i wear a mask and overalls when cleaning the range down and i have the ventilation extractor fan running aswell. The rimfire bullets will be mixed in with the hard cast centrefire, so no chance...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Thanks for the replies. After i have dig out the range scrap, i sieve it into two piles , large chunks of smashed bullits , which i use for recasting and the other pile is fine lead powder/dust. Is...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hi folks, i am the range maintenance guy at my local shooting range. The bullit catcher is a steel plate design and collects mainly rimfire and factory cast lead bullits. I dig this out, smelt it,...
Forum: Our Town
Hi, John checking in from England, UK. Been lurking for quite a while now. I have been a reloader for 25 years, great website.
| 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 |