My copy of Cast Bullet Handbook arrived today

[bigarm]

Now I can start reading!

[Bzcraig]

Great way to start!

[IraqVet1982]

If you sit at a computer all day for work, this is a nice site to check out in your downtime

http://www.lasc.us/castbulletnotes.htm

[bigarm]

If you sit at a computer all day for work, this is a nice site to check out in your downtime

http://www.lasc.us/castbulletnotes.htm

Thanks for the link. I will read it. I retired in June, so most of my time would be considered "down time", but I seem to be as busy or busier than when I was working!

[ShooterAZ]

Just for grins...have your wife read you the section on cast bullet metallurgy.

[462]

Just for grins...have your wife read you the section on cast bullet metallurgy.

The third edition's metallurgy chapter is much easier to read and comprehend. It, too, was written by a metallurgist but with verbiage and a style that doesn't require a doctorate degree to decipher and comprehend.

I gave up reading the fourth's chapter and re-read the third's.

[mdi]

Yep, I prefer my 3rd Edition over my 4th. IMO the 3rd seems to be a bit more for a new caster, and the 4th has bunch of info on Cast Bullets for Black Powder Cartridges. I too got into the metallurgy section of the 4th Ed. and got a bit confused (into like two sentences...). But both are excellent books for any caster's/reloader's library.

[adanymous]

I got mine yesterday too. Ive read it all, including the metallurgy chapter. Now Im generally considered a pretty smart guy but that Dr. Blocks explanation of a phase diagram left me a bit befuddled. I read it...but I only got about 70% of it, and that may be being generous to me. Maybe I need boolit metallurgy for dummies

[nhrifle]

How does one acquire this book?

[Minerat]

How does one acquire this book?

Try this link http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...et%2Caps%2C569

Then download this one. It helped me more as a first time caster http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Contents.htm
and I'm and old hand at this game (4 months)

[runfiverun]

sometimes you just have to read the metallurgy sections of those books a couple of times to get the full meaning clear enough to understand what they are saying.
once you understand the verbage things become much easier to understand.
engineers also have a tendency to use acronyms that they think everybody else understands, i run into this when doing research on lube ingredients, i found out the use of poe, poa and pag were quite common terms.
it just took me a while to be able to translate them in my head and then look up and understand just how [and from what] they were made.
it then took a little bit to figure out the differences between the grades and compositions of the off shoots.

[bedbugbilly]

bigarm - I have the 3rd edition and it sits on the end table right by my chair. I pick it up almost everyday - either to check on load data I'm thinking about or to just read (and re-read) some of the chapters. A great book and I refer to it more often than to any of the other manuals I have.

BTW - I'm retired too . . . and I don't' know how I ever got everything done when I was working! The days go by much too quickly . . . so take time to smell the roses along the way!

[TXGunNut]

Good choice, I'll save a more thorough reading of the metallurgy section for sleepless nights.