What did you cast today?

[trixter]

It was 104° on Saturday but Sunday morning in the garage it was 78°, (at 0345) so I turned on the light, plugged in the pot, turned on the hot plate and made a few C223-55-RF. It doesn't go real fast with a 2 cavity mold, but I was enjoying myself listening to some birds chirping and watching the sun come up out of the corner of my eye. I stopped at about 0730 when my son came to help me with trimming my tomato plants. What a wonderful morning, I so love this hobby.

[Michael J. Spangler]

It's a great .38 bullet. These are on their way to a friend in Mississippi. The post office lady doesn't like me right now but she did make sure the box was taped up well.

Michael those sure are some shiny, well filled-out bullets.

The post office lady always asks what’s so heavy. I tell her it’s my mother in laws fruit cake.

Thank you for the compliment. Bottom pour on the 9 and .308 but ladle on the postell. Whenever I have issues casting the biggie I just add a little tin and thy all look this good or better. Love it

[LAH]

You did good Beau.

[Beau Cassidy]

Thanks, LAH. Those bullets were cast, coated, and sized in about 6 hrs. or less. I don't use the 10-cavity mold very much but for some reason I don't have a .38 SWC Thompson bullet in a smaller mold. Now a 358429-style bullet I got ya covered. I don't mind using the 10-cavity but it sure is a bear to use especially when it is hot outside. I was standing about 2 feet away from a fan the entire time I was using it. It MiHec will ever come thru I will have a 4 cavity slick-sided Thompson SWC that should absolutely rain bullets. My guess is it won't be too far off the mark making bullets when compared to the 10-cavity H&G.

[Tripplebeards]

Ingots!

[tazman]

I got my Lee 4-20 going and cast 500 of the Lee 452-230-tc. The mold was working well and things went smoothly. It only took me about 40 minutes. Now to size and lube.

[lightman]

Nothing lately, but I smelted a bunch of lead right at the end of the winter. About 7000# worth. I posted pictures and even had a contest guessing the number of ingots that was in a pile that went to a buddy. My casting is about over for now, until it cools off. It was 101 here yesterday with high humidity. But during the spring I cast a couple of times a week for a half data a time. I cast enough H&G 68's to load the 5 gallon bucket of 45's that I've got primed and enough H&G 503's to load the 2500 44 magnums that I have primed.

I like to cast when I can have a coupe of buddies over and we cast in my shop. It seems that I can stay at it longer when I have a buddy or two to talk with. My Wife usually fixes lunch for us. Come on cool weather.

[OldBearHair]

Yesterday poured 329 Lee 150 SWC .359 boolits and Hi-tek Old Gold coated two coats today along with pouring 518 Lee 124 RN boolits with a two hole mould. That is a lot of boolits to pour at one sitting for me, especcially with a two cavity mould. Learned to put downward pressure on the sprue plate as it was pushed opened with the old hammer handle. Makes for a flat bottomed boolit.

[Tripplebeards]

Mixed a few more batches of alloy...

[zymguy]

Some lee 90 grain .314 . Tried dropping the whole basket into cold water, won’t do it that way again


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[zymguy]

And some 45 Keith’s probably try Elvis’s low temp method


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[nvbirdman]

How hot has it been the last two weeks? I just leave my lead out in the sun for two hours and then pour it into ingots.

[cwlongshot]

I cast a little to ight. I have a new Lyman mold I wanted to try and need to cast 145g .401’s every time I cast anything as I use so many of them.







I really wish LEE would offer this in a six holler!!

The 65g Lyman bullet is a beauty!!

I did not realize I was out of GC in 25...

CW

[OldBearHair]

Here is a picture of the 329 each Lee 150 SWC .359 boolits with the Hi-Tek Old Gold Good lookin huh

[OldBearHair]

cwlongshot, good looking boolits. That is a lot to pour with a two hole mold at one time.

[Texas by God]

I can't wait till winter so I can cast some more everything.

[LabGuy]

I can't wait till winter so I can cast some more everything.

I hear you on that!

[EMC45]

More ingots

[cwlongshot]

Loads more 25/20 BOOLITS!!



Then I powded coated some.

CW

[Beau Cassidy]

Yesterday I fired up the waage pot to ladel cast some NOE .44 SWC HP and MiHec .45 HP Hammer bullets. All were cast with pure lead and a little tin. The Hammer bullets are a little soft in my opinion but they are for a friend so I made what he wanted.

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