Mesh trays for cookin boolits: methods and construction

[hermans]

I think you are overthinking it. I use old cookie sheets covered with non stick foil. Works great! Over the years the foil has become very thin. Now you can’t get more than one use with the foil.

Exactly my method as well. I must say I am "relieved" to hear that the thickness of the non stick foil is also a problem in your neck of the woods...I thought that it is only here in Darkest Africa that we have that problem I must say that I am managing 2-3 sessions with my foil, but mostly only 2, luckily they are not to dear and one roll goes a long way for me.

[Charlie Horse]

I don’t do the shake and dump thing. I like to stand them up so I bent up some expanded metal. With pistol lead, I just stand them up on the tray with parchment paper.

Thank you I like this idea very much. Going to try it with some Lee 55 grain 22's.

[fredj338]

I use these, 4 fit perfectly in my pizza oven.
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[jsizemore]

I use these, 4 fit perfectly in my pizza oven.
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Mine look just like these except a little longer and a little skinnier. 4 fit in my Oster countertop convection oven with a little room to spare. Each will hold about 3.75 lbs of bullets and I can load them with 1 hand while opening and closing the door with the other.

I've got an Avantco pizza oven waiting for the Oster to die. The mesh trays are too long so the door won't close. Sideways I can only get 1 mesh tray in sideways on 2 of the shelves. I'm gonna have to get some like Fred has.

[rintinglen]

Before you go too far, check how much weight your shelves will handle. I've overloaded one and it made a real mess in the oven.

And here I thought I was unique

[SkyKid]

This is what I made for my 44 mag boolits
I insert them so the base is facing up

[braddock]

Ninja air fryer racks about $9 on amazon. Life's too short to faff around and amazon prime gets them to me next day here in the UK.

[Rapier]

Big mistake baking base down. The nose makes little difference to accuracy. The base on the other hand makes all the difference in the world.

If you make a 1/4" hardware cloth box 12" square with about 1" deep sides, use SS wire for the corners, a large round punch can be used to round the holes in the wire, then turn the wire box upside down. Place the bullets in the holes, with heated and bent needle nose pliers, bullets nose down held at the ojive, the bullet base then coats and bakes, clean and even. If you use a plain base bullet coated, you do not need gaschecks at all, ever, when double coated, You then size to the groove diameter using a case lube pad in a sizing die with a lube/sizer.

I shoot double coated hard cast bullets in my ARs to 2,500 with no fouling or leading.Accuracy is sub 1/2" at 100 meters.

These two rounds that I have posted pictured of before, are double coated, plain base, created for use in my ARs. The 358 MGP with 200 RCBS plain base does 2,500 fps and holds .43 inches with 1680.

[Charlie Horse]

Big mistake baking base down. The nose makes little difference to accuracy. The base on the other hand makes all the difference in the world.

If you make a 1/4" hardware cloth box 12" square with about 1" deep sides, use SS wire for the corners, a large round punch can be used to round the holes in the wire, then turn the wire box upside down. Place the bullets in the holes, with heated and bent needle nose pliers, bullets nose down held at the ojive, the bullet base then coats and bakes, clean and even. If you use a plain base bullet coated, you do not need gaschecks at all, ever, when double coated, You then size to the groove diameter using a case lube pad in a sizing die with a lube/sizer.

I shoot double coated hard cast bullets in my ARs to 2,500 with no fouling or leading.Accuracy is sub 1/2" at 100 meters.

These two rounds that I have posted pictured of before, are double coated, plain base, created for use in my ARs. The 358 MGP with 200 RCBS plain base does 2,500 fps and holds .43 inches with 1680.

Interesting. Do you have a picture of the bullets standing in the wire rack, as they are ready to go into the oven?
Do you lube them before sizing? (You mentioned a case lube pad).

[jsizemore]

Interesting. Do you have a picture of the bullets standing in the wire rack, as they are ready to go into the oven?
Do you lube them before sizing? (You mentioned a case lube pad).

When I baked for 20 minutes I had to lube the PC'd bullets before sizing. I increased my bake time to 30 minutes and they sized fine without the lube.