Hi all,
New member here. I'm looking for some constructive criticism on my cast boolits.
I just finished the 300th cast .45 for my personal consumption. I've picked what I consider to be the best and worst of my bullets and have shown them for your critiquing. (The ones that I feel are useable, the wrinkled, non filled variety don't make it out of the garage, back into the Lee pot with them.)
I'm using a Lee 2 holer, with a 20lb production pot. I've Lee-mented as per instructions I've seen on CB while lurking. I believe I'm doing OK, and this has been borne out with great shooting sessions using said boolits.
Yesterday, while out at the range, I had a gentleman ask if I made my own bullets. I said I did, and I proceeded to show him the very bullets that I have taken the photo of. He asked how much would I charge for a box of 200. I replied that I haven't really the equipment to pour en masse for someone.
Out of the blue, one of the old timers who was eavesdropping on the conversation came over, looked at the bullets and declared them of "poor quality", and that if the member wanted to buy cast bullets, he would be more than happy to give him a great deal on cast boolits, which he himself pours and sells.
I don't really care about him promoting his bullets, since I don't plan on selling mine anyways, but I was really ticked off about him calling my bullets "poor" quality, and told him to put his money where his mouth was and show me what was wrong with my boolits. He picked out two that were frosty, which I agreed with, and then proceeded to tell me my mold was not set up, and that the line from the mold was very pronounced and would make for poor boolits.
I've looked at them, then looked at his and when I pointed out a line on a few of his boolits, he replied that they weren't even a 10th of what mine was.
I pulled out my powder scale and proceeded to show that my boolits were all within a .5 grain end weight. He wouldn't weigh his, saying that weight wasn't an issue when dealing with 230 grain round nose, and that being off a grain wasn't an issue.
What do you all think?