Random thought shotgun casting thread

[bikerbeans]

Please post whatever you want to about what you have going on with casting for scatter guns.

I'll start, i think i need to cast more 410 slugs because i only have about 500 loaded rounds sitting on the shelf.

BB

[Jedman]

Please post whatever you want to about what you have going on with casting for scatter guns.

I'll start, i think i need to cast more 410 slugs because i only have about 500 loaded rounds sitting on the shelf.

BB

That will never do !

Jedman

[Petander]

If you use Lee round ball molds,pay attention to NEVER cut the sprue after it has cooled down too much.

The sprue hole edge is very delicate and will break with force. I open mine by hand, just one mistake is too much.

Got myself a new one today and made 250 balls without messing up. Good,nice balls,a good mold but special.

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[Hogtamer]

When I get finished working the huge Masters golf crowd early next week I've got a bunch of Lyman 525s to load and 100 of Uncle Dino's 20 ga slugs too. And I really need to pay the hog woods a visit before long.

[Budzilla 19]

I’m almost out of slugs to load!! Going to be interesting because I don’t even OWN a Lyman sabot style slug mold!!! And I can’t remember who I got these from. Well, I’ve always been told the mind is the first thing to go!!!!!! Hahaha! Got factory buckshot to load so I’m good to go.

[RED BEAR]

Have been having fun with 3 .31 balls and 1 .6 ball looks very destructive on target . Thanks for the tip on lee molds i do use them. I cast #4 , .310 , .350 , .5 and .6 shot and combinations of these. I gust shoot shot guns for fun. Favorite is a crescent double barrel with short barrels from the 1920's its a blast.

[Petander]

Have been having fun with 3 .31 balls and 1 .6 ball looks very destructive on target . Thanks for the tip on lee molds i do use them. I cast #4 , .310 , .350 , .5 and .6 shot and combinations of these. I gust shoot shot guns for fun. Favorite is a crescent double barrel with short barrels from the 1920's its a blast.

Fun! Exactly,shooting is supposed to be fun.

Is that Crescent a s/s by the way? I'm looking at an older Sauer s/s , I used to have a 12 and now that my 20 RB "Economy load" is sort of happening I'm thinking about a 20 s/s for RB... just for fun.

[jdfoxinc]

Need to cast more buckshot with my M&P molds. Then I need to load hundreds of 12 16 & 20 ga hulls. Gotta prep for the ZA.

[6pt-sika]

I have a bunch of single double and triple ball loads to try relatively soon . Also I wanna try some more of the Lyman 525 with a solid base in s rifled gun . But my biggest thing is to finally get my hands on the 34” Parker 10 gauge I have coming from Canada . That guns got 40 points vonstriction in the right barrel and 42 points in the left barrel . It’s going to be intresting to see what pattern they throw at 40 yards and quite possibly 60 yards with Bismuth

[longbow]

I've been "making" when I should be shooting! I still have full bore Brenneke'ized slugs to try out and some Brenneke'ized wad slugs as well. Also lots of round balls cast.

I was going to load and shoot but after watching the Taofledermaus videos testing Lyman and Moose Minies I decided I had better remake a mould in a copy of the Moose Minie... so I did! I downloaded the photo of their slug then traced it with a CAD program, scaled to 0.685" diameter then bored out a smaller diameter wad slug mould and made nose form and HB plug. Cast up about 40 last night and at least 30 are perfect. They came out slightly oversize but okay and fit Winchester 1 1/4 oz. wads. Cast from ACWW they weight 497grs. and very consistent in weight. The Moose Minies run 535 grs. in pure lead so these seem slightly light but I can shorten the HB pin easily and/or lengthen the body a bit. Nothing wrong with 500 grs. though.

Now, with that long nose I am not sure how I will load. If the powder and wad allow I'll fold crimp. If not I guess I have to make a roll crimper with deep cavity to allow for that 0.375" long nose cone!

If asked I would have said these would not stabilize from smoothbore but the Taofledermaus video shows they do! they also shot very well from rifled choke tube.

So, now I have to get some loading and shooting done and get my rifled choke tube adaptor installed on my single shot. But I'll try the smoothbore first!

By the way, for those 20 ga. shooters... Lyman makes a .58 Minie mould that looks almost identical to the Moose Minie, in fact, I am betting Moose copied and scaled it up to .69 cal. Seems to me .58 Minies fit some 20 ga. wads well? If so that Minie is worth a try and should do real well from rifled gun or rifled choke tube.

Longbow

[6pt-sika]

What’s a “Moose Mini” ?

[Finster101]

I would really like to work on some subsonic 20 GA slug and 00 buck loads for the wife. (Well, me too maybe)

[GhostHawk]

I have 12 ga slugs and #1 buck loaded plus 20 ga punkin balls I really need to test.
Springtime is almost here, time to get it done.

[slownsteady22]

I need to buy a good round ball or slug mould for my 12 gauge.

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[dsh1106]

Time to setup the shotmaker, then modify the setup to run pure lead.

I worked on this last year and came pretty close, just need to find my notes and refine things a bit.

And I've got a 69 caliber minie mould to try out too.

Scott

[Markopolo]

I LIKE THIS!!! Count me subscribed!!!

Who has time to shoot?? I will be tied up the rest of the week delivering 100,000 baby Alaskan oysters part by truck, boat and plane to a single customer in Juneau. 20 fish boxes that weigh about 68lbs each . first part of the trip is by pickup, then by boat, then by plane for the last part.. but I will take my shotgun loaded with punkin balls and buckshot... bears are out. hopefully a dumm young one will give me some trouble and I will actually get to shoot this week. lol

[Markopolo]

I have a bunch of single double and triple ball loads to try relatively soon . Also I wanna try some more of the Lyman 525 with a solid base in s rifled gun . But my biggest thing is to finally get my hands on the 34” Parker 10 gauge I have coming from Canada . That guns got 40 points vonstriction in the right barrel and 42 points in the left barrel . It’s going to be intresting to see what pattern they throw at 40 yards and quite possibly 60 yards with Bismuth

Wow... now that is a beautiful piece of work...

[6pt-sika]

Wow... now that is a beautiful piece of work...

Thank you sir ! I now have Parker EH 10 gauges with factory original length barrels of 28” , 30” , 32” and 34” ! Well I will when this one arrives ! Hopefully one day I’ll be able to get my hands on one of the factory original EH 26” guns and possibly one of the 24” factory original guns .

[Markopolo]

I would gladly give one of my rarely used (these days) round balls for any one of those Parker’s!!!

[pashiner]

I have loads to test, and not enough time to shoot. Working on some subsonic loads, and pumpkin ball short shells.