Any guesses on how many?
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Any guesses on how many?
By June it'll be hot enough out here in Phoenix, AZ to cast boolits without the need of a heat source. Just leave the lead in a pot on the sidewalk and you'll be casting in minutes.
I've been finishing up my last minute casting this week... still have a few .44 mag to put together then I'm done till at least October.
_coder
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt
i'm good with any month between the wednesday of the second full week in february till the wednesday of the second full week in november. the rest will be spent finding fur, besides i cast outside and in the winter it's real hard to get the pot hot enough to pour.
i figured it up though i can cast 250ish (#225450) keepers in one hour, but i'll break it down by caliber and cartridge or front stuffer
Just alloyed up a couple hundred pounds of ignots, and have two real nice 4 bangers ready to cast.....
Shawn, Flint Mi.
Less than 72 hours until blastoff...
I am going to guess that we have a total that slightly exceeds 20,000...
...seriously, I have no clue.
I am new to casting, only been doing it now for 3 months and probably already have about 3,000 to 4,000 bullets casted in various caliber. I have been doing .309, .358, .356 and .452 so far and plan on doing .401 here by mid June. This sounds like it could be fun. I do all my smelting and casting outside, especially since I live in a mobile home and getting good ventilation during casting process would be difficult. The only issue I have is that if it rains...well no casting since everything is setup without a roof overhead.
WVHunter129
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i cast 180 pounds into ingots yesterday and last night cast 750 45acp 230grn so i will be casting up the rest of the lead in june
June is way to hot here in deep south Texas for casting. Typically 100* weather already. This month I finished my yearly cast. I don't have boolit counts but I have decreased my ingot supply by almost 300 pounds. Boolits are all pistol in 9mm, 357, 40S&W & 45acp.
Next I will be lubing indoors with the AC running.
Bliksem
After reading Bobthenailers count, I'm out. I live in South Florida. If I casted over 20,000 boolits in a month you would find me melted in my garage. I casted only about 200- 45 calibers tonite and I sweated out about a gallon.
I have far better things to do than count how many bullets I cast, like cast, lube, and shoot them. I'd guess it will be in the mid hundreds.
Well, I cast about 400 in May. That'll go up in June.
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I have some .32 HBWC to cast, and then some pointy .135 grain .357s to cast, then it is on to some .41 Keiths, and then probably some .32 115 grain boolits for .32 H&R and .32-20.
It seems we have two definite classes of outside casters: Those who don't cast in the summer because it is too hot, and those that have to wait until summer when it warms up.
We'll see which group is most prodigous...
I have three molds I have not cast with yet, just waiting for June so I will have something to add to the total.
Paul G.
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June is a shootin' month for me. I rarely cast anymore than I need to get ammo loaded in June. I try to get my casting done by the end of April cause I know there are a lot of things I can do in the summer that I can't do the rest of the year. The second weekend in June I'll be shooting up a lot of the casting sessions proceeds from January.
Edd
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The Lee pot is warming up now as we speak...
I guess I will draw first blood.
I live in northeast NY the mornings are pretty cool ,I like to cast a few hundred boolits at a time in the morning before the wife and kids get up thats my weekly routine. I do all my heavy smelting of wheel weights and raw lead in the winter so the summer casting is less smokey . Works for me
Me too.Originally Posted by badgeredd
This is why I am casting early.
I cast a pot full of 125 gr RNFP this afternoon. Probably 600+ pieces.
Shiloh
Je suis Charlie
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Any government that does not trust its citizens with firearms is either a tyranny, or planning to become one. Joseph P. Martino
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years there would be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?" - J. Stalin
526 .32 Hollow Base Wadcutters
Next on the list: Back to the .360" Midweight pointy boolit mold by NOE.
Great Idea.
I cast in the garage. In the dead of winter months, I can't cast. The pot fluctuates and I stand on an ice cold concrete slab. A cover for the pot helps, but when it gets below
20 degrees, it is uncomfortable.
SHiloh
Je suis Charlie
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Any government that does not trust its citizens with firearms is either a tyranny, or planning to become one. Joseph P. Martino
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years there would be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?" - J. Stalin
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