What did you cast today?

[Dale53]

>>> hope it is enough<<<

It is NEVER enough! Sounds like you got a good start, tho'!

Dale53

[nwellons]

A bit cool and breezy, even here in Georgia today. I did some casting on my screen porch and will do more in the next few days.

First up - about 200 boolits for my .44 Russian S&W revolver
Next - about 75 boolits for my .43 Egyptian rolling block.

[Mossy Nugget]

Getting real cold and windy here. Ohio isn't quite like Siberia, but I cast 800 Makarov and about 60 for the Mosin 7.62 X 54R
Я люблю русские пушки

[singleshot]

158 260 grain .452 boolits for my 45 acp and Herc 2400 testing

[Kraschenbirn]

Nope, but did run 500 rounds of .45 ACPs (RCBS 45-230-RNs) off the Dillon SDB. Plan to cast a batch of Lee 312-155s and 329-205s later in the week, though.

Bill

[avogunner]

I took advantage of the nice weather we had this weekend to break in a couple of new molds (Christmas presents), the Lee 1oz slug and a 311299, and replenish my supply of Lee 358-158-RF. I cast:
75 of the slugs with 50/50 SOWW and range lead
100 311299 with my version of Lyman #2. They dropped at .311 and 199gr (+/- .5gr)
300 of the 158gr RF (a great little boolit by the way)

Yep, it was a good weekend.

Happy New Year to all!
Jeff

[zuke]

It's -27 here right now,with the wind chill it's -37
Needless to say I didn't cast a thing.
But I did paper patch 225 308's to be used in my new to me Ross Rifle

[Doc_Stihl]

1180 boolits from 8 molds yesterday. First chance I've had to cast in 2 months....Had 6 new molds to try out.

[LAH]

17 pounds of the big one & 74 pounds of the little ones. Not today but yesterday.

[zuke]

That's a good day's worth of casting.

[LAH]

That's a good day's worth of casting.

The smaller bullet is the Ballisti-Cast #1101. That's 'bout 2000 boolits. The larger one is the NEI 454-350. I didn't count them either but should have been close to 350. I didn't time the casting but it was under 3 hours but I don't think by much.

[zuke]

I cast these up last summer.
NOE 330GC,HP. I wanted to make sure I didn't run out this winter.

[pistolshooter]

well, after being away from casting for over 20 years, I finally got enough stuff to cast a few hundred this week. Bought a couple of moulds, furnace, flux and a sizer. Been getting a lot of good information on this forum, trying to remember stuff I forgot and learn lots of new things. Feels good to be back in front of a hot pot again.

[LAH]

Those are nice Zuke. My hat's off to the HP/HB bunch.

Welcome to the board pistolshooter & welcome back to doing your own boolits.

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
Yea, it finally snowed, so a could do BOOM BOOM'S slush quench.
20lbs of 265 gr gc. RD 44 cal. boolits. Oh Yeah!

[rsrocket1]

Three hundred ninety five Lee 358-158-RF out of the six cavity mold in about 30 minutes. (once I got the casts going in a good rhythm)
First casts with this mold. Thought I got a lemon because the bootlits were an absolute bear to get out of the mold. I had to push each one out by hand until I figured out that I wasn't letting the sprue plate cool off enough and the bases were slightly "welded" to the top of the mold. I wanted to cut the sprue just a couple of seconds after the lead "froze" in order to make sure I got a clean, flat cut. Once I waited to a count of 10 rather than a count of 3 after "freezing", all six boolits dropped out with nothing more than a shake. The bases turned out all nice and flat after all. Tumble lubed them tonight, can't wait to shoot them real soon.

[drklynoon]

Casted about 250 85 gr. .312 rn for my .32 H&R. Took me forever with that two ganger.

[LatheRunner]

Casted around 250 150 gr. 358 SWC with a Latchmiller two cavity mold. Also got a 5 gallon bucket of wheelweights smelted.

LatheRunner

[dodgyrog]

I have just received my new NOE 5 cavity 316299 and have started to run it in. I thought I had cleaned it enough but the boolits were wrinkled - back in the pot they go.
I'll have another go today. I'll probably put the temperature up a tad as well.

[LAH]

Casted around 250 150 gr. 358 SWC with a Latchmiller two cavity mold. Also got a 5 gallon bucket of wheelweights smelted.

LatheRunner

Can you post a picture of that boolit?