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    Geeez...I guess you get the 'BUSIEST BEAVER AWARD', some of you fellas have gotten down right serious...

    I am green with envy!
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    Good thing I'm retired, its alot of work! Finding steel FMJ's in 9mm, guess ill have to scan all 6-7 buckets of copper scrap for steel. Got 160 lbs so far and a bucket and half to go. its my 4th trip, only have till spring till they call in a Co scoop the berm and refill w clean dirt, cause they are getting complaints of ricochets. But, my old agency just switched to a hybrid MP 40 and have to shoot 800 rounds ea to transition to the new striker fired weapons, and yeah no steel. Sure leaves little bittle pieces of copper jackets.

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    Accurate 36-180F for my 686.

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    Barely works at 1.610"

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    Quote Originally Posted by OS OK View Post
    Geeez...that's a lot of casts...a lot of work too! I wouldn't want to arm wrestle you after seeing this.
    I hope you have a fast way to size that herd!
    So back to this with a few facts. I did some experimenting for my own knowledge. In the red container when everything was said and done I had 52.25 lbs of 150 grain RN boolits. I decided to put my nose to grindstone and PC them all in one evening. On average i was turning over one tray every 9 - 10 minutes with just over 200 projectiles per tray. it came out to 24 trays. Just a hair under 4 hours including clean-up. Next came the sizing. I set up a digital counter and a count down timer and came to the conclusion that it take me on average 2 seconds to size a boolit. I set it for 5 minutes each time and after 6 tries the lowest amount was 143 and the highest was 161. in the end the average came out to 152 which is about 2 seconds per projectile.
    The powdercoat is a Metallic Silver and in the other photo is 28 lbs of other misc projectiles like 9mm and some 44s that I used some jet Black to see how I would like them. Now it's time to start casting again!!
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    Sometimes it takes a second box of boolits to clear my head.
    Feed back thread http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...?261449-jeepyj

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue32 View Post
    Accurate 36-180F for my 686.

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    I really like to looks of that Boolit! That is going to bo one hard hitting Projectile. I just may have to look into something similar.
    Sometimes it takes a second box of boolits to clear my head.
    Feed back thread http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...?261449-jeepyj

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeepyj View Post
    so back to this with a few facts. I did some experimenting for my own knowledge. In the red container when everything was said and done i had 52.25 lbs of 150 grain rn boolits. I decided to put my nose to grindstone and pc them all in one evening. On average i was turning over one tray every 9 - 10 minutes with just over 200 projectiles per tray. It came out to 24 trays. Just a hair under 4 hours including clean-up. Next came the sizing. I set up a digital counter and a count down timer and came to the conclusion that it take me on average 2 seconds to size a boolit. I set it for 5 minutes each time and after 6 tries the lowest amount was 143 and the highest was 161. In the end the average came out to 152 which is about 2 seconds per projectile.
    The powdercoat is a metallic silver and in the other photo is 28 lbs of other misc projectiles like 9mm and some 44s that i used some jet black to see how i would like them. Now it's time to start casting again!!
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    hey..."take a break and shoot some of these before you go workin your head off again!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by OS OK View Post
    hey..."take a break and shoot some of these before you go workin your head off again!"
    You funny, The addiction makes It necessary to try to shoot at least once a week. This past weekend was 6° with 8 mph wind and I still got 225 rounds off.
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    Last edited by jeepyj; 01-16-2018 at 01:29 PM. Reason: Added photo
    Sometimes it takes a second box of boolits to clear my head.
    Feed back thread http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...?261449-jeepyj

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    Not very many this morning since I did have to harvest maple sap from our trees. I did manage to cast enough for a couple session each of 210 gr 41 cal SWC, 130 gr. 358 cal RF, and 200 gr 30 cal. semi point Loverin plain base.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brewer12345 View Post
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    Tried out a new to me Arsenal mold, 360 138 MAX. This is an aluminum 4 banger that gave me some challenges. It did not fit my lee handles and barely fits the slightly longer RCBS handles. Then I got a lot of rejects until I realized that a smaller cavity aluminum mold like this needs to be run fast and hot. Ended up with about 20.5 pounds of keepers for a morning of casting. They drop at 133 grains cast with range scrap and 2 to 3% pewter added to the pot as a source of tin. I may try again with this mold later this week.
    Did another session with this mold today and the container is full. I now have 41 pounds and change of these buggers to size and lube. Hoping to come up with a trail boss based load.with them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brewer12345 View Post
    Did another session with this mold today and the container is full. I now have 41 pounds and change of these buggers to size and lube. Hoping to come up with a trail boss based load.with them.
    Hmmmm...let's see...41 pounds? Ok, I got it...that'll take 4 good CD's (played about 4 times each) 1 quart of Kesslers and 2 cases of beer and better throw in several burgers too! Call your friends who want to learn to handload...get them in on the fun!
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    Quote Originally Posted by OS OK View Post
    Hmmmm...let's see...41 pounds? Ok, I got it...that'll take 4 good CD's (played about 4 times each) 1 quart of Kesslers and 2 cases of beer and better throw in several burgers too! Call your friends who want to learn to handload...get them in on the fun!
    Heh! Well, I have the time to cast now and that may not be the case later in the year. Boolits don't go bad, so I figure I might as well get it done and have a big heap of cast, sized and lubed projectiles ready to go. If time is scarce later in the year, I can still bang out a bunch of rounds if I wish. I try to take the same tack with brass. A lot of it is loaded up, but what is not I make an effort to keep primed, resized and flared so I can bang out rounds as needed/desired.

    I have 3 new molds in the mail, so lots more casting in the near future. Waiting on the Mihec H&G 50 8 banger and ordered 2 flavors of Lee 44 6 bangers. I can hear the pot crying quietly in the corner...
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    I hope you ordered the H&G 50, 8 banger in Aluminum!
    I just bought a H&G 50, 6 banger, steel, front hinge handles....OMG it's heavy! Had to redoo my rest under the Lee 20# pot so it would fit all the way through on an angle due to the overall length.
    I ended up drilling a set of Lee handles to fit it and that made it more manageable, still heavy though!

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    Yes, the H&G is in aluminum. I am coming to find I prefer iron molds, but boy do they get heavy as the number of cavities increases. I figure the 8 banger will empty the pot in a hurry, though.
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    Yesterday broke in a new mold from N.O.E..

    That AL sure does some nice work.

    It's for the 357/38 with 3 pins.

    They sure look good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brewer12345 View Post
    Yes, the H&G is in aluminum. I am coming to find I prefer iron molds, but boy do they get heavy as the number of cavities increases. I figure the 8 banger will empty the pot in a hurry, though.
    Hard to say but...including sprue's you oughta get about 4 or 5 pours to the pound...that pot's gonna havta get to work!

    Quote Originally Posted by plainsman456 View Post
    Yesterday broke in a new mold from N.O.E..

    That AL sure does some nice work.

    It's for the 357/38 with 3 pins.

    They sure look good.
    Pictures of your work? Us old geezers like pic's cause we cain't read!
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    Did you have to brave the cold to get that done?

    I wonder if Lyman might put out a PID control? Seems like the next step with that temp. meter....
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    Hey Charlie, not to hijack your thread but I'm wondering how many of you use mold thermometers with a PID controlled pot and how well you think they work, and how big a pain os the cord.
    (pictures along with your answers would be appreciated)

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    Hey Jim...Can't post a picture of that myself...don't use a mould thermometer. I thought they would be a hassle from the first time I heard about them. Could be someone does...we'll find out, good question.
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    I ran a batch of Lee .358 125gr. RF to be powder coated and run through my new Ruger LCRx-3

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