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View Poll Results: Your Current Age

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  • under 20

    4 0.24%
  • 20-30

    91 5.43%
  • 31-40

    182 10.85%
  • 41-45

    114 6.80%
  • 46-50

    127 7.57%
  • 51-55

    176 10.49%
  • 56-60

    216 12.88%
  • 61-65

    288 17.17%
  • 66-70

    222 13.24%
  • 71-75

    172 10.26%
  • 76-80

    63 3.76%
  • 81-85

    15 0.89%
  • OLDER THEN 85

    7 0.42%
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Thread: Age of boolit casters

  1. #161
    Boolit Mold
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    86 still shooting paper, and loving it!

  2. #162
    Boolit Buddy glockfan's Avatar
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    55...still up and running .

  3. #163
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    55.. started with my dad's Lyman mold master xx after he passed away in '97. Then got a lee 4-20 a few years ago.
    After reading about the PID controllers here, I built myself one and boy oh boy it sure has improved my bullet casting.

  4. #164
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    72 and still hunting and punching paper! Going to be a dark day when I no longer can.

  5. #165
    Boolit Bub
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    friend of mine and me decided to get into reloading. he bought a single cavity mold and cheap lee pot i thought he was crazy until i did the math on the savings.

  6. #166
    Boolit Buddy
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    53- I shoot alot of calibers that until the last 20 years were considered obsolete so started casting. Then when a certain political party was making noise about taxing bullets to make them hard to get. I stepped up production for more readily available calibers. Going elk, and mulie hunting in Colorado in October gonna take an original 86 in 33wcf. My doe gun this year in Pa will be a 86 SRC made in 1892 in 45-70. A casting I do go, a casting I do go.

  7. #167
    Boolit Master
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    63 now ,the older I get the more I enjoy shooting my own cast boolits and the whole loading process .

  8. #168
    Boolit Mold
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    I’m 41 and I just started casting a month ago.

    I’ve been lurking here for about 3 months and decided that I might as well post something.

    Right now I only cast 9mm, but I’m gearing up for 38 and 45 acp.


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  9. #169
    Boolit Buddy
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    I started casting about 8 years ago after my father-in-law passed away. He supplied me with everything I needed because he did custom casting and reloading. So I ended up with a lot of moulds and supplies that didn't sell. I'm 73 now and been casting and reloading for 8 years.

    Kcajeel

  10. #170
    Boolit Buddy engineer401's Avatar
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    I’ve been casting for close to 7 years when it was difficult to find a good supply of bullets. I’m 53 now and have enough lead to last several years.

  11. #171
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    59 and an old soul
    Casting since 1979 or so.

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  12. #172
    Boolit Buddy
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    I started about the same time, mostly pure lead for muzzle loading. Into it more now , mostly for 45/70 . Am now I to powder coating. I will be 81 in less than a month.

  13. #173
    Boolit Buddy
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    started reloading in 1960 (or there abouts) was still in high school, started casting about 64 or 1965 (can't remember for sure that far back). still at it, rumitiz has slowed dow my shooting some now. Ammo, 22lr was 43cents a box. $0.43 was hard to come by!
    BD

  14. #174
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    I'm half the age(1/3 of some) of most, 27, to be 28 in a few weeks. I wish more people from my generation would put down the screens and make something with their hands

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    Last edited by nhyrum; 08-28-2018 at 09:39 PM.

  15. #175
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    Looks like I am one of the OLD folks at 82 and still chuggin along with my best gal GIRTY.
    WE WON. WE BEAT THE MACHINE. WE HAVE CCW NOW.

  16. #176
    Boolit Mold DK'dUranium's Avatar
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    Now 57, I began casting in 1976 as a very motivated 15 year old trying to craft ammo for a .32-20 my father had given me. I introduced three friends to the hobby in my early 20's. Good times were had then, all furiously casting away together, in one friend's fathers barn: Talking smack, telling truths and lies as the lead flowed freely. I've enjoyed explaining to other non-casting gun friends how I can create unlimited ammo for a nickel a round.

  17. #177
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    Quote Originally Posted by 03fatboy View Post
    Just started to cast this year,I'm 44.
    I think it was just a natural transition from reloading,why buy bullets,when you can make your own,and "save" all that money.

    I'm addicted now and there's no turning back.I love it.
    I just started last year (casting that is). It is addictive but this seems like the perfect support group for the addiction.
    The unexamined life is not worth living....Socrates
    Pain, is just weakness leaving the body....USMC
    Fast is fine, but accuracy is FINAL!....Wyatt Earp

  18. #178
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    35 here. Been casting and reloading for 8 years or so. I started at the same time. Really didn't have anything to do with the shortages. Mostly cause I love firearms and their history so reloading and casting is a natural progression of that. I like learning and being self sufficient as well.
    Last edited by Bazoo; 11-02-2019 at 04:38 AM.

  19. #179
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    Started reloading in the early 80's to afford shooting rifles several hundred rounds a year,
    and factory ammo of the day was not especially accurate.

    In the late 80's I got into shooting handguns.
    Reloaded to be able to afford feeding them 3-5,000 rounds a year.

    Soon after, I got into casting for the same reason, and to save wear & tear on the weapons.

    In the late 90's, I got into .45-70. Couldn't hardly afford to shoot much it without casting the boolits.

    Now, at 64, I still shoot a lot, but can't see myself buying J-words.
    Last edited by Winger Ed.; 10-09-2019 at 11:02 PM.
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  20. #180
    Boolit Mold
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    Late 20's. Started casting 2 years ago when I bought a muzzleloader. Pretty much only do BP muzzle loader conicals/balls for my CB pistols and rifles. but I'm thinking of starting on 45 colt and 45-70 when I get some guns for it. Don't bother with small bore as of now as I made some amazing buys on bulk copper unmentionables with good Ballistic coefficients for my modern rifles but big hunks of lead cost too much to buy prerolled for the old stuff where ballistics even in the best case are poor.
    Last edited by FerricOxide; 10-10-2019 at 01:14 AM.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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