What a RUSH!

[armoredman]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/armoredman/PICT0151.jpg

I know it's not the greatest shooting anyone ever did, andI've done better with this sidearm before, with other handloads, but this is the first time I shot my own cast boolits. Not bad on smoke, but this is an outdoor range, too. Steady on flyers, need to watch the LLA on the bullet ogives.
This is so cool.

[Ben]

Good Shooting, You're hooked now. No turning back ! !

Ben

[45nut]

Warm fuzzy feeling knowing success is in your own hands, with boolits you cast yourself and handloaded yourself. Congrats and thanks for the report.
:cbpour:

[pumpguy]

I get the same rush from loading and shooting my own that I get from killing a bird or mammal and using a fly I tied to catch a fish. Something kinda primal aboout the whole thing.

[truckboss]

done soiled your shorts!congrats,now the bad news.herd of crack,well this is much worse.

[armoredman]

No cure, eh? Well, I think I can deal with this one...

[**oneshot**]

Sorry to tell you but that group will cause undo pain and suffering in the heat of a casting pot, and the endless sizing of boolits.

Seriously, that is what got me hooked: Shooting my own cast rounds into a nice little ball like the one you shot. Since I found how well they can be shot I have ventured off into shooting sports, I can afford to shoot them now with the cost of reloading with cast.

What a great hobby gone wrong, I mean right.

[OeldeWolf]

I know the feeling. I got it the first time I shot the cap and ball revolvers, and again when I did it using ball I had cast myself.

[Murphy]

Good going armoredman...congratulations.

Nice group....by the way....you're toast dude.

Murphy

[keeper89]

The hook is set, reel him on in!:twisted:

[Blammer]

nice going!

[NVcurmudgeon]

Thanks for the report, good to see another caster's first success.

[Jim]

NOT BAD, ARMORED !! You go, boy!

[44man]

Super---double action yet too! Thats a tough way.

[armoredman]

Only way with a good solid duty revolver. BTW,something did get started...I went outand cast another 80 today, as I realized I had loaded almost all I did the other day. :) Time to score some more lead!! :D

[pumpguy]

80? Wait til 80 doesn't even feel like you warmed up the mold!! Before long, 800 will be a good start. Welcome to the addiction.

[armoredman]

Actually, I don't have a table, so I cast sitting Indian style on the back porch, and it get's warm here in AZ fast :( . So, I go for a half an hour or so, and then quitto save my back, and escape the climbing temps. When it cools off, I hope to have some alloy left to cast for longer periods. :-D
I don't shoot as often as I would like to, yet. So, 80 will last me a while, until I find what combo the Smith likes best.

[lead_her_fly]

armoredman,
Ya dun good man!
As to your thread title, it's the truth!
Wait until you take 1st in a competition with them bad boys! NOW THAT'S A RUSH!

Skip

[SharpsShooter]

OK guys, lets get him lined up on the group buys now...........:mrgreen:

Another convert[smilie=1:


SS

[armoredman]

Ummm, group buys? Me be poor. Me just need primers and lead, right now. Ugh.

[Wayne Smith]

A resin table with a piece of 3/4" plywood on it is adequate for my Coleman twin burner stove, 20 lb led pot full, and verious and sundry molds and tools. Resin tables are cheap, too!

[scrapcan]

Armoredman,

That old smith shoots pretty good with that range scrap! Did you have any leading?

As the others have said you have the disease bad, you have to live with it for the rest of your life now. Back in the mid eighty's an elderly frined gave two young high school kids a casting pot, sizer, a mould, a dipper, a 5 gal bucket of wheel weights, brass, primers, and powder. All for loading the 38 special. We dredged up a couple of 38 revolvers and I have had the bug ever since.

Nothing quite like shooting something you put some labor into.

Now you get to go down the other path of finding more lead to feed the habit.

Jeremy