What did you cast today?

[brewer12345]

26 pounds of 358156, a noe clone, and 14 pounds of the lee copy of hg68.

[cwlongshot]

Well... its 97 right now. But first light it was only 75 I was up and plugged the pot in. As I finished my coffee it was warmed up and ready. By 8:15 it was too hot and I needed a new T shirt.

But I almost finished the pot... Cast a 6 gang LEE Ranch Dog 300g 454.

CW

[cwlongshot]

About 35# of LBT 220g, NOE 360-232 & Accurate 36-272c boolits!!


Cast on the softer side to olay in the 357 Maximum/350 Legend.


CW

[cwlongshot]

IDEAL 323470 single & Saeco 396 2 cav. About 15# worth.


CW

[mart]

I cast about 20 pounds of LBT 280 grain .411 WLN, about 10 pounds of LBT 265 grain .411 WLNGC and about 5 pounds of LBT .357 200 grain FNGC. All from 50/50 Range scrap and linotype.

[lightman]

Nothing today! Not even anything as of late. I do most of my casting near the end of the winter and early spring to avoid the hot weather. I usually have a buddy or two over when I cast and a few of them are already asking, so it won't be long!

Me and a buddy are also making plans for a smelting day, some time after New Years.

[Cast_outlaw]

Cast up some (left to right) C309-180-r, 429-200-rf, c430-310-rf, tl356-124-2r
The 356 mold has a lot of miles and needs to be replaced but making it work for now

[Thin Man]

Not today but 2 days ago I dropped around 350 samples from an Ideal .25 caliber Perfection mold. Below the nose we have one driving band, a loob groove, and one base band. With traditional rifle mold sizes these dropped at .259 diameter so I sized them at .252" in a re-purposed (drilled & polished) .244 sizing die. After sizing they weigh 44 grains. The loob groove is so shallow I have decided to apply Lee liquid alox and stuff these into .25 acp brass. Sorry, no photos, I'm too old school to know how to do that.

[ioon44]

I just done around 2700 9 mm out of a Accurate 35-130-c 5 cav, this mold really makes it rain bullets and about 1200 .45 ACP from an 5 cav NEI H&G 204 gr bullet.
All of these got 2 coats of Hi-Tek, so I have a good start on this years shooting.

[cwlongshot]

I cast up some special alloy with my Accurate 270g 35’s for a buddy. Then powder coated it clear as they where such a nice cast with the extra tin that was in this alloy.



Then I cast a couple hundred MC 220-359 HP Mold I borrowed from a friend. Beautiful casting Mold!



CW

[cwlongshot]

Mihec 220-359 HP pins in. Cast in 20:1 alloy

CW

[sigep1764]

Today I set up a make shift casting station in the garage until I can clear the rickety bench in there that was left by the previous owners. I cast up 200 RCBS 270-150's, around 600 358-147 Elco's, and 500 227-75 Nato boolits. It was 65 degrees here in STL today.

[clum553946]

90 gr .358’s & 118 gr rnfp .358’s for SASS

[Conditor22]

3,243 boolits now to PC and size

[Gamsek]

45 Carabine, 275grs, 6cav aluminium, .452” MP Molds

[Boolseye]

A couple hundred Lee 356-125 RF. What a nice all around .38/9mm boolit!!
Loaded over a start charge of #7, it’s quite a little thumper in 9mm.



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[Hanzy4200]

Powder coating a 20 lb tub of .45 hardball, lubrisizing about 400 Lyman .38 wadcutters.

[Dale53]

Due to health reasons, I haven't been doing much relative to casting and reloading. This week I broke that "fast". I decided to load some .38 Specials on my Dillon 550B. My Dillon has been idle for months and the primer feed was a bit erratic. That is NOT common to the 550B. I took the primer set up off the press and it was gunked up. I cleaned it and dry-lubed it and it IMMEDIATELY started working perfectly. Just needed a bit of "tender, loving care". I ran several hundred full charge wadcutters (original H&G four cavity iron mold for the H&G #50 wadcutter). Then, I decided to start working on getting my bench back to "ship shape". I found a couple of bags of empty .38 Special cases that needed sorting. I sorted them, packaged them, and "one less thing in the way".

I cannot begin to tell you how that lifted my spirits. Life has become really boring with the C-virus "lock down" and doing something really positive gave me a natural high! Here I sit with a smile on my face! I plan to continue until my shop is all straight again. It'll probably take me a couple of weeks!

FWIW
Dale53

[Boolseye]

Good to hear Dale53. May it continue for you.


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