Was casting some 32cal wc's and water dropping them. I quit using a towel years ago when water dropping. The bases would still get dinged up on the edges when the bullets hit each other as they fell into the towel. The towel would stop water from splashing up. That never bothered me, every now and then a drop of water would get on the mold and sizzle/evaporate in seconds.
Today I casting at a pretty fast pace and closed the mold as soon as the bullets left the mold. Swung over and started pouring in the 1st cavity. The 1st cavity filled with lead and the spru started to puddle. Then there was a small pop sound and the spru puddle moved. Odd??? I quit pouring and cut the spru off and looked at the base. The bullet on the left is what the wc bases look like. The bullet on the right was from the cavity that had water in it.
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A small hole started in the side of the nose of the button nosed wc and went out the bottom of the bullet.
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I haven't been casting bullets that long (1986), but I've never seen anything like this happen before. Just a small popping sound and the spru moving up and settling back down while still in a semi-liquid state. By the time it set back down it started to harden but didn't have the typical sink hole.