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Has it been done? Does it work? It was just a thought.

Wow. Amazing work. I've been stuck on this thread since the beginning. I want to make molds now!

Just purchased 250# of lead at a garage sale today for $125. Some WWs. Some dive-belt 5# chunks, 2 35# cannonball sinkers from a commercial fishing outfit and a gob of old roof flashing. The roof...

Catboat, no I have not tried to duplicate the test. I have about 500 boolits left from the original alloy that I've been shooting. I can duplicate the hardness but I didn't write down what the...

I don't think it does me any good to age boolits. Way out west we don't have wheel weights made of anything castable so my lead comes from a foundry without any arsenic in it. I drop them onto a...

That's the boolit I was shooting when I put 5 thru a single hole in the paper. It casts well and shoots well but the GCs are about $0.03 each and take time to install.

I'm now shooting an RCBS...

I started panlubing boolits due to the cost of a lube-sizer-gizmo-thingy.  When I could afford one I started reading up on them and found that for every caliber I needed top punches and sizer...

Oh how I wish we had lead wheel weights out here. I'm in one of 7 states that has banned lead wheel weights due to the possability that they may end up back where they came from. I have been finding...

Thanks guys. I've got about 10 pounds of alloy mixed up that a Lee hardness tester creates a .076" diameter dimple in. Just waiting on a new RCBS mold to show up. I've been a shooter for 49 years and...

Lead wheel weights don't exist in the liberal state of Washington anymore. That's why I had to buy expensive foundry lead. Grab all you can because other states will soon follow.

It would not be good for us to ever allow lead to find it's way into the environment (where we found it in the first place).

I'd like to know what the hardness of the boolit is that you shoot in your 44 and 38 Specials. What shoots well in my Casull doesn't shoot well in my specials. Probably too hard to obturate at the...

I only have sizing dies of .451 & .452 or I'd be happy to send you a couple of boolits. I used a Hornady .457 lead round ball found at muzzleloader supply stores. I pushed it thru the bore from...

Bret4207:
The horizontally distributed pattern in targets 1 and 4 was something I noticed right away. "Hmm". What 357Shooter said about the trigger finger is something I will be especially conscious...

Having the pics not show up is also a pain.

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Wow! I'm amazed at the responses. Keep in mind that I'm still very wet behind the ears when it comes to casting boolits. Being ignorant is bound to cause me to make some wrong assumptions at times. I...

I spent quite some time in replying to the previous replies and posting the other targets when the site requested that I log in again. I did so and lost 45 minutes of text. Have a Honey-Do list to...

For years I wasted money on jacketed bullets because of those marketing techniques combined with my ignorance. The "Super Extremely Hard" cast boolits didn't shoot worth a hoot and I mistakenly...

Tested various hardness boolits in the 454 Casull today. Shot 5-shot groups with boolits at 10.1, 11.0, 12.5, 14.3 and 15.4 Brinell. All loads were 300 grain Lee flat point GC boolit atop 25.0 grains...

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Thanks for the info. It's a Freedom Arms model 83 with a 6" barrel. My next trip to the range will be to see how fast I can push the boolit without loosing accuracy. I'm assuming that...

In reference to my previous post:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=102504
Thanks guys. I very much appreciated you taking the time to share your knowledge with a neophyte.

I'm...

Excellent! Thank you all for sharing your knowledge. Knowing the challenge is possible is all the motivation I needed.

Bass_Ackward: No perception issues here but my toes feel wet.

Been lurking here for sometime but now I have a question.

I've never cast a single boolit that wasn't meant for one of my muzzleloaders so I'm a prospective novice at this game. I like nostalgic...

I wonder if Ruger changed their throat dimensions somewhere along the line. I have a #1 in 45-70 and I've been shooting the Speer 350g Flat Nose (2478) for years. I bought it new probably 12 years...

I wonder if Ruger changed their throat dimensions somewhere along the line. I have a #1 in 45-70 and I've been shooting the Speer 350g Flat Nose (2478) for years. I bought it new probably 12 years...