Silver Jack Hammer
03-30-2013, 11:20 AM
Fellow Sophisticates,
Yesterday my wife was at work and my kids at school, I had the day off from work and they didn't call me in on overtime. It wasn't raining. I got my 4 cavity 454190, 4 cavity 429667, my RCBS 44-200 CM and my new to me just bought off of ebay single cavity 454424. Several hours of to myself. Not only did I have a blast but the end result was a huge pile of boolits that will last me a while.
I owned the 454424 years ago and foolishly sold it. My old mold had a square lube groove, this one I just bought has a rounded lube groove, I sense the Grand Ol' Man is looking down on me not quite satisfied by the one recently acquired but I was out bid and lost two 454424 molds before I finally got my hands on this one. Then I had to order another 424 top punch from Midway. At least top punches are one thing not sold out in the retail shooting world.
I use a 12" iron skillet 4" deep on a propane turkey deep roaster heat source. I have this table I made just the right size and height to catch my cast boolits as they fall from the mold. I've got Linotype, 20:1, etc but yesterday was just using wheelweights and scrap lead I bought in bulk from the local recycler.
Another thing I find handy is a small set of channel locks I use to pull a boolit stuck in a mold that won't knock free with a rap from the wood stick. The channel locks are set to the right size to grip the base and the nose of the boolit. Works well for me.
Yesterday my wife was at work and my kids at school, I had the day off from work and they didn't call me in on overtime. It wasn't raining. I got my 4 cavity 454190, 4 cavity 429667, my RCBS 44-200 CM and my new to me just bought off of ebay single cavity 454424. Several hours of to myself. Not only did I have a blast but the end result was a huge pile of boolits that will last me a while.
I owned the 454424 years ago and foolishly sold it. My old mold had a square lube groove, this one I just bought has a rounded lube groove, I sense the Grand Ol' Man is looking down on me not quite satisfied by the one recently acquired but I was out bid and lost two 454424 molds before I finally got my hands on this one. Then I had to order another 424 top punch from Midway. At least top punches are one thing not sold out in the retail shooting world.
I use a 12" iron skillet 4" deep on a propane turkey deep roaster heat source. I have this table I made just the right size and height to catch my cast boolits as they fall from the mold. I've got Linotype, 20:1, etc but yesterday was just using wheelweights and scrap lead I bought in bulk from the local recycler.
Another thing I find handy is a small set of channel locks I use to pull a boolit stuck in a mold that won't knock free with a rap from the wood stick. The channel locks are set to the right size to grip the base and the nose of the boolit. Works well for me.