I made one to make solid sticks for a Magma star. I never tried the hollow stick mold, but heating a solid stick and pouring it into a RCBS sizer is no big deal.
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
I made one to make solid sticks for a Magma star. I never tried the hollow stick mold, but heating a solid stick and pouring it into a RCBS sizer is no big deal.
Forum: Our Town
My older brother takes his grandson to the range when he goes to visit. He refers to it as a MAN UP experience.
I do this with my own grandson.
Forum: Our Town
Welcome aboard, wade on in the water is fine. I learned more from this site and found out some of the stuff I thought
I knew changed over the years.
Forum: Our Town
Started with James Lee Burke, then Vince Flynn, Lee Child, C J Box, David Baldacci.
I started reading a bit late In life plus I am a slow reader but remember most everything I read.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Apple Man - Welcome back. It sure looks like you have been busy.
I have tried the powder coating thing. I am too old school and went back to using lube. But to each his own. I have a Magma Star...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I lube every 10 or more brass. As soon as the handle gets a bit stiff I hit the next case with a little lube.
I have had the same tub of Hornady Unique for about 15 years. A little goes a long way.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I use chili to top tamales and cover it with grated cheese.
Forum: Our Town
It was 9 this morning when I left for work. Not much higher later in the morning. It is supposed to be in the 40's Monday. We got between 4 and 6
Inches of snow in the Memphis area.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I use small rectangle cake pans I got at Dollar Tree. I line them with a folded over towel. I cast with a 8 cavity mold. I usually lay the hinge end over the
Lip of the pan and the bullets might...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Now you guys have flung a cravin on me.
I smoke pork butts using apple and pecan. I have used persimmon at times but
The combo of apple and pecan is my go to for smoke.
Try some pulled pork...
Forum: Our Town
Getting to where I pay my bills on line. I mail all my bills that are due the first 10
days of the month sometimes a week before the 1st. I had one email that I had
missed a payment. It arrived 2...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hardball alloy is 92-6-2. Seems to me you are pretty close. You might need to add a bit of pure to that alloy you have.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Look in Swappin and Selling page 3. There is one listed but it has every add on know to man. 6 dies and top punches and lube sticks.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Casting with an 8 cavity mold gives a big sprue. I use a lead hammer to open the
Sprue plate and then return the sprue back into the melt. I us e an old pro melt and those big molds are pot drainers...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I ordered some lead once and it was 2 isotope cores and 2 ingots. The lady that delivered our mail knocked on our door and I went out to her truck.
She said "I'm not supposed to do this but you need...
Forum: Casting Equipment
They work for 2, 3 4 cavity molds. The NOE hadles are patterned after the Lee handles. Just made from better materiLs.
Forum: Our Town
I have bought lead on the market place but it was a fece to face deal.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sarge I was always partial to the old 454-255 Keith style bullet.
Landowner beat me to it but FIT IS KING ALL ELSE IS SECONDARY.
When I started casting someti.e in the late 70s, I started with...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Welcome to the madness, and don't over think things and have fun.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Check CMM Shooting sports and look at a brass catcher. When I started shooting Bullseye I didn't have the money for one of those brass catchers but
made one out of copper tube and a laundry bag for...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I was visiting my brother in the OKC area. We went to his gun club with a rake and a sifter he made and 4 large coffee containers. We filled those in about 10 minutes.
I wish I had a couple of 5...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I was at Bass Pro in Memphis at the Pyramid on Friday. They had mostly Small pistol and small rifle all were $8.99 per 100. Just a bit too steep for my blood.
They had puwder but for 4227 at $49.00...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I am a bit partial to the empty mixed nut containers from Sam's or Costco. They hold a pile of bullets.
I like the pint size gelato containers with a screw on lid for rifle bullets as I don't cast...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I got some a couple of years ago and kept it in a brown paper bag, it turned a whitish color. It looked dried out but when I melted it
for bullet lube, it worked just fine. I bought a block from a...
I made a lead hammer mold using a copper tee and a piece of all thread for a handle. I split the tee length wise with a cutoff wheel.
I used the link that Minerat showed in his post from 2008. Very...
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 |