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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. #121
    Boolit Master
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    im in the old guys group ,what happened.one minute i was 19 now im 61 its all been a blur

  2. #122
    Boolit Master PBSmith's Avatar
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    Merry Christmas from the long side of three score and ten.

    Advise quit counting past that mark and keep on shooting.
    Last edited by PBSmith; 12-17-2015 at 07:16 PM.

  3. #123
    Boolit Mold
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    Merry Christmas to all, and may all your Future Boolits come out looking like a prom queen.

  4. #124
    Boolit Master facetious's Avatar
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    I started around 23 when I got my first .357. A guy that lived in the same apartment building as me that i had gone shooting with a few times started to make fun of me telling me that i would never learn to shot it because I didn't make enough money pay for all that ammo. Then he sat me down and showed me how to reload and how to cast. He was about 62 at that time, I will be 59 I July.

    A fun fact: After all this time I have only bought twenty factory rounds of .357 and five or six are still around here some were.

  5. #125
    Boolit Mold
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    Started at 53 because I like learning new skills. Merry Christmas to all!

  6. #126
    Boolit Man
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  7. #127
    Boolit Buddy
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    I did a little casting back in early 70's helping a colleague who cast and reloaded my rounds for me. Then a 45+ year break due to military life etc, and here I am at 65 just starting to cast for myself now.

  8. #128
    Boolit Buddy

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    Started castin round balls aroun 16 for a cap and ball revolver I bought online (don't tell anyone I was under 18) started casting for my new to me 45-70 about a year ago now casting for 357/38 44mag and 45acp.

  9. #129
    Boolit Master gandydancer's Avatar
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    started learning from my uncle in 1950 at 10 years old a year later at 11 years old I was casting RB for a original Remington 44 caliber revolver my uncle had. And at 68 years later I'm still at it. I am now 78 years and holding. GD
    "The good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.They may be led astray for a moment,but will soon correct themselves" - Thomas Jefferson

    I wasn't Born in the south but I got there as soon as I could.
    I like this site. MOSTLY good people. good ideas.

    Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't!!
    "Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped." — Groucho Marx

    "We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse"

  10. #130
    Boolit Mold
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    22 I was using a 38 leeloader started with a 10 pounder Lee and a dipper. I was working in a family owned department store that went heavy on sporting goods and a 10% employee discount. wouldn't have missed it for the world.

  11. #131
    Boolit Buddy GEOMETRIC's Avatar
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    I started reloading rifle & shotgun ammo in the 60's & started casting rifle bullets when I got back from Vietnam in the early 70's. I will be 72 this October.

  12. #132
    Boolit Bub
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    29 here, barely made it into the 20-30 group. I started reloading at 23, casting at 27 and have been enjoying it ever since.

  13. #133
    Boolit Master

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirtjumper895 View Post
    29 here, barely made it into the 20-30 group. I started reloading at 23, casting at 27 and have been enjoying it ever since.

    I like that!
    John
    W.TN

  14. #134
    Boolit Grand Master

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    I'm 60. Started casting in Junior High School as a very young teenager. Like a few others, had a few years that I did not do much casting. And a few others that I did a lot!

  15. #135
    Boolit Bub
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    I started casting about 2 years ago I am now 29, I remember dabbling in casting fishing sinkers with my dad when I was about 13 he picked up some stuff at a yard sale but we never really got into it. 2 years ago when I started casting boolets I found the little cast iron crucible full of lead in his shed that he had bought at that yard sale and made my first boolets with that lead.

  16. #136
    Boolit Buddy jessdigs's Avatar
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    37 years old. I have been reloading for three years and casting and powder coating for one year. I really enjoy it and have gotten my cost down significantly.


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  17. #137
    Boolit Man wolf3006's Avatar
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    61 years old. Been casting about five years.

  18. #138
    Boolit Master oldhenry's Avatar
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    78 years old & have been casting since 1960.

  19. #139
    Boolit Buddy Steppapajon's Avatar
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    I stated casting in 2015 so I could shoot more with my Brother and my Son. Sadly both of them are gone now. Casting has become almost spiritual for me. I sure do miss them both.
    SPJ

  20. #140
    Boolit Buddy
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    68 years old, began casting in 1972. I have about 70 molds.

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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