Cast 100,000 boolits/day.

[Lucky Joe]

So says the ad, included a Confederate mould and some history.

[RayinNH]

I bet it was a long day too...Ray

[docone31]

I saw one of the top machines at the Springfield Armory way back when.
I am glad I did not have to use it. Took at least two people.

[geargnasher]

I saw one of the top machines at the Springfield Armory way back when.
I am glad I did not have to use it. Took at least two people.

Wow, you're OLD.

Gear

[docone31]

Yeah, it was in the '60s.
I never forgot it. I remembered the stock cutter also. Fascinating machines.
Ingenious.

[HORNET]

Sounds like one of Bannerman's old ads.

[jlchucker]

Back in the late 1960's I saw something that looked a lot like the rig in the lower photo, in a corner of the lead shop at the Winchester plant in New Haven. They were still making ammo on gov't contracts back then. This old unit looked like it had been there for years, unused. I was told by an older employee that during WWII, they hand-cast the cores that went into military ammo, as well as making those cores in a more automated method--i.e., extruded lead wire cut to length as the wire was pushed through a set of cutoff wheels, then swaged in a separate operation. I was astonished to hear that they still hand-casted slugs in volume like that, even as supplemental production.