What did you cast today?

[Tom W.]

air conditioners....

[LAH]

Who the heck can cast in 90+degrees heat on a painfully sun bright day.
I have a mold just returned from ACCURATE, that I screwed up, and I Can't cast a bullet because of the blasted heat.

I use my air conditioner.

[brewer12345]

I tend to do things seasonally. May through August it is too hot to cast or brew. I just plan ahead. I am eager to try my new noe ranch dog makarov mold, and if the 45 I have on order is fun to shoot I will need more boolits.

[Walks]

TaylorS,

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

[zymguy]

Roughly 15 pounds of 120g .314
Mold I bought from a gentleman on this site and I couldn’t be happier!!


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[LAH]

zymguy those are nice & I'd be happy too.

[zymguy]

Wearing ford light blue now


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[tazman]

Cast up 200 pieces of Lyman 452374. Now to size, lube, and load them.

[Beau Cassidy]

Yesterday I broke out the NOE .380 mold again and more than doubled my supply of those bullets before starting a run of .380s.

Today was- sigh- the Mihec .45 hammer mold. I love this bullet but it doesn't love me. I added a little extra tin to the mix as this mold is usually horrible to cast with. It needs better venting. I have even scraped the vent lines. It took about 3 hours to get about 70 useable bullets ladel casting I ended up only using one cavity of the mold. I have tried every trick in the book and then some. I had to stop because the rod holding the HP pin on came unscrewed and fell off. Had to find it. This is just a tough mold. NOE has a mold that is similar yet heavier that is looking more attractive every day

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[zymguy]

Tried dropping the whole basket into cold water, won’t do it that way again Works for me, how did you do it?

flip the basket and nock bullets into water, by bainging on bottom with an implement.

[DerekP Houston]

I tend to do things seasonally. May through August it is too hot to cast or brew. I just plan ahead. I am eager to try my new noe ranch dog makarov mold, and if the 45 I have on order is fun to shoot I will need more boolits.

Same here, summer is just too hot in Texas for casting! I have all my casting and coating done by spring then spend the summer in the AC loading and shooting them. This year I've spent more time at the lake than the range so I'll probably have some left over for next year.

[FISH4BUGS]

I haven't cast anything since last early spring. Spring, summer and fall is reserved for gardening, putting food by and yard/house work. Squeezed in with that are weekly (almost) trips to the range to burn up that ammo. Winters are long and hard here in NH so that is reserved for casting and reloading. I have to say there is something very satisfying from a closet full of Dillon blue cartridge boxes.
It has been many years since I went shooting and worried "....I have to make every round count....I only have one box of 50". That is the joy of casting and reloading in large batches.....it is like going to the grocery store when you get ready to go shooting....plenty to choose from.

[woodbutcher]

Well lets see.Does a Dalton Special and some Rattle Traps count?
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[zymguy]

Well lets see.Does a Dalton Special and some Rattle Traps count?
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

nope.....cuz there are no pics !!!! I thought for a while id cast my zink scrap as jigs but Im worried about how it rings instead of thud against rocks still watching for a mould so Id love to see some photos

[tazman]

I spent an hour with my Lee 4-20 and my Lyman 4 cavity 356402 this evening. I had the best run going I've had in a year. 652 boolits in 1 timed hour.

[zymguy]

I don’t know how many are here, I weigh them as I size them . It’s an NOE 454276. I went with orange because I’m hoping these are my deer hunting Bullets


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[Echo]

Mornings aren't bad here, so I do my smelting/casting before noon, summer/monsoon time. This AM I just cast about 50 Cramer 30-caliber 175-grainers to give my son - will cast a couple other designs and let him decide which one I go into production on. The other molds need cleaning, and will do that tomorrow, and cast a few more then.

[cwlongshot]

I cast about 5-6# of Lymans 357446 158's last night. A friend wants to try some in his suppressed Contender 38 spl.



I powder coated them with Black Chrome and red powder.




Then sized then .360 on my 4500.

That's when I found my mold problems. ( I started new thread.)

CW

[tazman]

Spent some time with my lead pot and a 452460 mold this morning. Got about 300 cast.
I was refilling the pot with lead when I had a visit from the tinsel fairy. Apparently there was a bit of moisture on one of the ingots I put in the pot. A couple of new holes in my shirt and some time spent peeling lead off things in the area including my blue jeans. I was lucky nothing else was damaged or burned. Maybe a little paint burned off the wall from my language.

[sigep1764]

Proof it happens to the best of us. Glad your ok bud.