Choot em
Melt em
Couple of questions, in a lot deal I got about 250 of these bullets, they came along with a lot of Herters stuff. They are sized to .358 and weigh an average of 159g.
A. Has anyone seen bullets delivered in wooden boxes, from the markings inside and out and it seems like original packaging.
B. Can anyone ID the mould/bullet?
C. They are all about the same condition as what’s pictured. Given the general condition load and shoot or sent to the pot to become ingots?
Thanks..
Last edited by metricmonkeywrench; 03-17-2019 at 09:51 PM. Reason: Poll added for the fun of it
No idea on source or age, but why not just shoot em?
shoot em up
Ideal 358311, best 38 Special bullet ever.
When I get some old cast bullets with dried out lube I tumble lube them with BLL and shoot 'em up.
Duke
At first i thought you were asking about loaded ammo which i am very leary of but cast bullets load them up and shoot away.
Duke, forgive my ignorance... BLL?
I'm in the process of cleaning up a Lyman 45 and was considering running these through it for a fresh coat of lube.
BLL
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-L-Liquid-Lube
My 2˘
The lube on them old boolits looks dried out, might be OK, might not be ok ?
I'd attempt to heat the boolits to melt off the lube, or boil them?
then run them through your Lyman 45.
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Load and shoot, you don't need to push them to fast. You will be amazed how accurate they are.
I agree with DeputyDuke tumble lube load an shoot!
Done it with given to me old cast boolits. No problems!
I don't see a wrong answer here. Shoot them if you want to. Personally it don't bother me to melt bullets down and cast what I want out of them. But, I don't see anything about those pictured that would keep me from shooting them as is.
A long time ago, I used to go to a small gun show
at a place along the highway between Charles Town WV
and Frederick MD. I bought boolits packaged exactly
like that from a vendor there several times.
They were well made and shot well, too!
boil and pc
Lyman/Ideal 358311 as Guesser stated. I cast and use this traditional design quite a bit in 38 special - good shooting boolit. I'd just shoot 'em - if you're worried about the lube - tumble lube them and then let 'em fly.
Shoot em, or sell them to me and I'll shoot em.
Fact: Some people are alive simply because it's illegal to kill them.
I believe I would test a random sampling of them for hardness to see what they are and then tumble lube and shoot them according to how hard they were. Cast boolits can be in a wide hardness range the test would give an Idea of loads.
Tumble and shoot!
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If you load a caliber that they fit, why melt them? Load up a few and see how they do. If they’re junk, then melt them.
Shoot em up.
Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway!
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IF the lube is not gritty from sitting around forever--shoot them
if you get into the boiling and etc then I'm fine melting them down.
actually it would depend on my mood when I got them
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