Aged boolits

[gunseller]

How long is a good time to age ACWW boolits? Been in this house almost 14 years. Wife move most of the small things when we moved here as I was working a lot of hours. Going through a box the other day and found 200 boolits from a RCBS 44 mold weighting 250 grains. They are as cast and not lubed. They have to be around 15 years old. I am still getting supprizes here. 3 1/2 years ago when primers were hard to find I opened a rubbermaid box and found 13K of primers. That goes with the new Colt AR that I found in the back of the safe a few years before the primers. I think I have figures out where the AR came from.
Steve

[MtGun44]

Sounds like a good day when you "find" an AR-15!

Bill

[Nocturnal Stumblebutt]

For age hardening air cool clip on WW a week is sufficient, and from what I have read a year is about as good as it gets, any more age won't age harden the boolits any more, but won't harm them either.

[gon2shoot]

I've got some from the early 70's that are about ready, loaded others that were'nt quite cool. lol

[357shooter]

Bullets generally reach their peak in two weeks. They can soften again after a long period of time.

Loadem and shootem!

[zomby woof]

Sir, you are very organized!!

[JIMinPHX]

Unless they have sat around so long that they developed a white powder on the surface, I would use them happily.

[gunseller]

It has been a good weekend in the old shed. Found 50 new Win 44 brass. Now I have something to but the old boolits in. I am getting more orginized. Found a Remington Smoot that I have not seen for about 6 months. It is only around 95%. I would rate it better but the grips have been replaced with ivory.
Steve

[Dave C.]

I just finished casting the boolits that I will shoot in the 2013
conventional pistol season. So I guess that a year is enough!

[lwknight]

I can't say about ternary alloys but I do know that tin/lead bullets will get quite soft after a few years. I would guess that since most folks use low tin content that the hardness would be pretty stable after a few weeks.

[Griz44mag]

I have a hard and fast rule for aging boolits.
Cast 'em hard and shoot 'em fast.