Sonnypie
09-29-2011, 01:30 PM
... or a sack of shot = sack of Boolits.
So I got in a zone yesterday. I had some lead in the pot from melted shot (Magnum Shot). I decided to cast it rather than ingot it.
Things went so well, I decided to open another sack and started adding it. As it went down I kept adding.
The Lee 6 banger was drinkin lead and shi... spittin out boolits into a 5 gallon bucket of cool water.
The last of the sack went in the hole, and the pot ran dry.
I didn't think I was going to be able to get the 5 gal bucket of water and boolits out of the shop! But I did.
Yield is a shot sack full of 45 cal, 230 grain boolit shaped ingots. ;-) And no, Ima nota gonna count them.
But 28.9 pounds of boolits. Calculates out to 879 boolits in the bag where #7 1/2 shot used to live.
My reckoning is that a sack of boolits beats a bar of lead for storage. :veryconfu
Then I loaded up Lyman #2 Formula and started doing 30 cal in the 2-banger mold... I have got to get a multi-holer rifle boolit mold!
I'm approaching 5000 boolits cast since I fell into this trap. :shock:
Too much fun! :cbpour:
So I got in a zone yesterday. I had some lead in the pot from melted shot (Magnum Shot). I decided to cast it rather than ingot it.
Things went so well, I decided to open another sack and started adding it. As it went down I kept adding.
The Lee 6 banger was drinkin lead and shi... spittin out boolits into a 5 gallon bucket of cool water.
The last of the sack went in the hole, and the pot ran dry.
I didn't think I was going to be able to get the 5 gal bucket of water and boolits out of the shop! But I did.
Yield is a shot sack full of 45 cal, 230 grain boolit shaped ingots. ;-) And no, Ima nota gonna count them.
But 28.9 pounds of boolits. Calculates out to 879 boolits in the bag where #7 1/2 shot used to live.
My reckoning is that a sack of boolits beats a bar of lead for storage. :veryconfu
Then I loaded up Lyman #2 Formula and started doing 30 cal in the 2-banger mold... I have got to get a multi-holer rifle boolit mold!
I'm approaching 5000 boolits cast since I fell into this trap. :shock:
Too much fun! :cbpour: