86 still shooting paper, and loving it!
86 still shooting paper, and loving it!
55...still up and running .
55.. started with my dad's Lyman mold master xx after he passed away in '97. Then got a lee 4-20 a few years ago.
After reading about the PID controllers here, I built myself one and boy oh boy it sure has improved my bullet casting.
72 and still hunting and punching paper! Going to be a dark day when I no longer can.
friend of mine and me decided to get into reloading. he bought a single cavity mold and cheap lee pot i thought he was crazy until i did the math on the savings.
53- I shoot alot of calibers that until the last 20 years were considered obsolete so started casting. Then when a certain political party was making noise about taxing bullets to make them hard to get. I stepped up production for more readily available calibers. Going elk, and mulie hunting in Colorado in October gonna take an original 86 in 33wcf. My doe gun this year in Pa will be a 86 SRC made in 1892 in 45-70. A casting I do go, a casting I do go.
63 now ,the older I get the more I enjoy shooting my own cast boolits and the whole loading process .
I’m 41 and I just started casting a month ago.
I’ve been lurking here for about 3 months and decided that I might as well post something.
Right now I only cast 9mm, but I’m gearing up for 38 and 45 acp.
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I started casting about 8 years ago after my father-in-law passed away. He supplied me with everything I needed because he did custom casting and reloading. So I ended up with a lot of moulds and supplies that didn't sell. I'm 73 now and been casting and reloading for 8 years.
Kcajeel
I’ve been casting for close to 7 years when it was difficult to find a good supply of bullets. I’m 53 now and have enough lead to last several years.
59 and an old soul
Casting since 1979 or so.
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I started about the same time, mostly pure lead for muzzle loading. Into it more now , mostly for 45/70 . Am now I to powder coating. I will be 81 in less than a month.
started reloading in 1960 (or there abouts) was still in high school, started casting about 64 or 1965 (can't remember for sure that far back). still at it, rumitiz has slowed dow my shooting some now. Ammo, 22lr was 43cents a box. $0.43 was hard to come by!
BD
I'm half the age(1/3 of some) of most, 27, to be 28 in a few weeks. I wish more people from my generation would put down the screens and make something with their hands
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Looks like I am one of the OLD folks at 82 and still chuggin along with my best gal GIRTY.
WE WON. WE BEAT THE MACHINE. WE HAVE CCW NOW.
Now 57, I began casting in 1976 as a very motivated 15 year old trying to craft ammo for a .32-20 my father had given me. I introduced three friends to the hobby in my early 20's. Good times were had then, all furiously casting away together, in one friend's fathers barn: Talking smack, telling truths and lies as the lead flowed freely. I've enjoyed explaining to other non-casting gun friends how I can create unlimited ammo for a nickel a round.
The unexamined life is not worth living....Socrates
Pain, is just weakness leaving the body....USMC
Fast is fine, but accuracy is FINAL!....Wyatt Earp
35 here. Been casting and reloading for 8 years or so. I started at the same time. Really didn't have anything to do with the shortages. Mostly cause I love firearms and their history so reloading and casting is a natural progression of that. I like learning and being self sufficient as well.
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Started reloading in the early 80's to afford shooting rifles several hundred rounds a year,
and factory ammo of the day was not especially accurate.
In the late 80's I got into shooting handguns.
Reloaded to be able to afford feeding them 3-5,000 rounds a year.
Soon after, I got into casting for the same reason, and to save wear & tear on the weapons.
In the late 90's, I got into .45-70. Couldn't hardly afford to shoot much it without casting the boolits.
Now, at 64, I still shoot a lot, but can't see myself buying J-words.
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OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
Late 20's. Started casting 2 years ago when I bought a muzzleloader. Pretty much only do BP muzzle loader conicals/balls for my CB pistols and rifles. but I'm thinking of starting on 45 colt and 45-70 when I get some guns for it. Don't bother with small bore as of now as I made some amazing buys on bulk copper unmentionables with good Ballistic coefficients for my modern rifles but big hunks of lead cost too much to buy prerolled for the old stuff where ballistics even in the best case are poor.
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |