You Know You Are Addicted To Casting ..... add to the list

[azrednek]

Add to the list and see how many indications there are to being totally and hopelessly addicted to boolit casting

When you spend 5 minutes digging a wheel weight out of asphalt with your pocket knife.

When you buy a mold for a gun you hope to someday have.

Just before you leave home to buy tires, you remove all the wheel weights.

[Jupiter7]

You've never produced "scrap" lead.

you buy guns in obsolete calibers because making boolits is the easy part

[jabo52521]

When you go on vacation and you "walk" the rest stops looking for wheel weights.

[762 shooter]

You get worried when you realize you only have three thousand pounds of lead.

762

[tazman]

You have all the local tire stores, service stations, and scrap yards on speed dial.

[koehlerrk]

When the wife okays the purchase of a turkey fryer and you're planning to use it for smelting the day after thanksgiving....

[Garyshome]

Having 2000 cast boolits on hand is not enough!

[Bigslug]

Where the rest of the world views a sailboat as a symbol of exploration, freedom, or wealth, you only wonder how many 429421's you can get out of its keel.

[jeepyj]

When you pull out several recently cast Boolits out of your pocket to show off. Today I have 102 grain for.380.
jeepyj

[str8shot426]

When you pull factory bullets to load boolits.

[NavyVet1959]

When you record your car's tank mileage on the gas receipt with a lead bullet because it is easier to find in your car than a pen or pencil?

[MrWolf]

When you go on vacation and you "walk" the rest stops looking for wheel weights.

Went to a Costco in Florida and walked the tire area picking up ww's :popcorn:

[mdi]

When you walk the curb instead of the sidewalk, looking for wheel weights. When you park at the farthest spot in the market parking lot to walk through the lot looking at the ground for WWs...

[OptimusPanda]

When you use up your paid vacation time to cast for a solid week.

[rr2241tx]

When you move your casting operation into the back office so you can cast when it gets slow at work.

When you keep a set of splatter-encrusted pants and a leather apron in the office coat closet.

When you seriously consider burning the vacuum cleaner bag to recover lead splats from the storeroom floor.

[kungfustyle]

When you start buying gas check makers one at a time......one for each caliber....because you've just about gotten everything else, and it seems like you really need it.

[MrWolf]

When you carry in your car a bucket, gloves, and new ww's you got to trade for someone's old stash..

[littlejack]

When your wife tells you "I wish you would rub me, the way you rub your boolits"
Really.

[McE1911]

When your wife tells you "I wish you would rub me, the way you rub your boolits"
Really.

LMBO!
Now, that's a good one!

[HangFireW8]

When your friends drop by with pewter, sinkers, or solder instead of a casserole or a bottle of wine.

[runfiverun]

when you finally find that mold you know will cast the right diameters to fit that gun,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
youuu finally remember you sold off months ago, as you stand there looking at it.
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and buy it anyway.

[jayjay1]

When you mostly go shooting for gaining lead....

[MBTcustom]

When you resist the urge to buy a pair of wheel weight pliers......all the time.
When you realize that you really do have your mind in the gutter......especially while driving.
When all of your pants and boots have lead splatter permanently infused in them.
When you get all the law mower people you know to keep an eye out for lead for you.
When you meet a metallurgist and carry on a half hour conversation about alloys and tell him something be didn't know.
When you know more than anybody else at the range about ballistics......every time.
When everybody you meet wants to talk about guns and shooting lead boolits....weird.
When you get more excited about the custom mold you bought than the rifle you bought to shoot it in.
When castboolits.com is your homepage.
When you have the castboolits coffee cup, mousepad,T-shirt, boxer shorts, dinner plates, bumper stickers, and shoulder patch.
When you would actually trade firearms for lead.

[Four-Sixty]

...when you're in the car with your Family and they taunt you with: "look, there's a wheelweight!"

...when you buy a gift for someone and you calculate how many molds you could have bought with that same money.

... when you use mold numbers for passcodes to things.

[10mmShooter]

...yes I think I have the bug, I can open the door to my ammo storage area and plainly see 20 100 round ammo boxes stacked neatly in 4 rows 5 high yes 2000 rounds loaded ready to shoot, and then look down and see a .50 cal can marked with 90 pounds with 2500 cast 255g Keith SWC ready to load....

.....then I think wow I really need to cast some more .44 bullets this weekend, but everyone has there vice, I don't smoke or drink, but I do cast :)

[Gtek]

The wife just loves the three foot stick/para-cord/magnet set up that gets whipped out in intersections and the Sb discussion to follow. She really likes it even more when I park and get out for that one COWW.

[RED333]

When you pick up a WW and figure out how many boolits you can cast and not mind your family laughing about it.

[Rugerman]

When your 2 1/2 year old asks his Sunday school teacher if she knows where he could find any WWs

[Motor]

When your walk out to the 100 yard bunker takes 3 times longer than it should because your picking up spent pistol bullets there and back.

Motor

[jonp]

Add to the list and see how many indications there are to being totally and hopelessly addicted to boolit casting

When you spend 5 minutes digging a wheel weight out of asphalt with your pocket knife.

When you buy a mold for a gun you hope to someday have.

Just before you leave home to buy tires, you remove all the wheel weights.

I dug up a ww in a parking lot today....I'm doomed

[sigep1764]

..the moment you realize your girlfriend washed the spoon you use to remove dross off your pot. The same spoon you were just using to eat delicious Americone Dream from Ben & Jerry's. Forever unclean.

[oldfart1956]

Lawd....I see myself in so many of these posts I don't know whether to laugh or cry. How many have stopped by that place where their tearing down that old farmhouse...with a big box of donuts...and asked about any lead pipe? Or drove around on "Big Item Pick-up Day" looking for the tossed out pool cleaning tools? The ones with the lead weight in the bottom. This is sad.....Audie...the addict...

[bruce381]

""when you use mold numbers for passcodes to things.""

This one I will use thanks

[cdngunner]

When people think you have a degree in metallurgy, because of the way you talk about lead.

[wgaynor]

When doing odd jobs, people pay me in lead (fishing weights, wheel weights, and the kind from old windows)

[conundrum374]

when you go into work on your day off to save the good ww's from the scrap bucket

[donnrcp]

Go to the recycling place to get some lead, find almost 50 lbs of linotype and feel like you found gold!

[leeggen]

When you use your 451-230-r cull boolits for 1/2 oz sinkers!
By the way they work great.
CD

[kenn]

When you buy another gun in a caliber you don't have just to create the casting "opportunity".

[dondiego]

.........when your friends are over shooting into your berm you just stand back and smile knowing that the lead stash is just piling up for later.

[1911KY]

When you have asked everyone you know to keep an eye out for anything lead and you keep going back thru your contacts to make sure you didn't miss anyone, at least once a week!

When you are visually inspecting old houses on your drive home for lead roof flashing and making mental notes to stop if you ever see them replacing that roof!

[MrWolf]

When you get pulled into work for a few hours on your vacation and a Sherrif's Officer tracks you down and stands outside your door... to tell you he heard I was looking for lead and has about 100lbs of pure that was used to line a shower on refurb job he is doing. Just happened a few hours ago. [smilie=w:

[1johnlb]

When the first place you stop on pay day is the scrap yard.
When the folks at the scrapyard know you by your first name.
If the smell of a burning candle puts you in a better mood and a smile on your face.
When you no longer want to shoot because it's a waste of good lead.
When you go shooting just so you'll have a excuse to cast more.
When the DMV pulls you over to check your axle weight.
When you start to sell all your other possesions to buy more lead because 500lb ain't enough.

[jonp]

""when you use mold numbers for passcodes to things.""

This one I will use thanks
wow, thats no lie

[Thumbcocker]

Your children are named Loverin, Sprue, and Patina.

[smoked turkey]

when you are considering selling your stash of j-words and commercial cast boolits just so you can cast your own.

when you buy powder based on it being "cast friendly".

[wrench]

Your children are named Loverin, Sprue, and Patina.

That made me laugh out loud, thank you:lol:

[spfd1903]

When you have asked everyone you know to keep an eye out for anything lead and you keep going back thru your contacts to make sure you didn't miss anyone, at least once a week!

When you are visually inspecting old houses on your drive home for lead roof flashing and making mental notes to stop if you ever see them replacing that roof!
I have a friend who matches roofing contractors up with homeowners. He collects the stacks and flashing and tosses several out by my mailbox every couple months. Just smelted a years worth Sunday and got 75 pounds of ingots. Some of my Union Millwright friends save old Lead blowout diaphragms and scrap Babbitt for me. Gotta get all the family, friends, and neighbors educated so they are on the lookout.
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[dh2]

when you buy powder based on it being "cast friendly".

I think I am going through with drawl's I need H4895

[Fishman]

When you trade a perfectly good 10/22 for old crumbly buckets full of ancient wheel weights and decomposed leaves. But I did get over a ton of ingots out of that deal :) The is the only forum I know of where folks would be jealous of me over that.

I did find three steel weights and one zinc so maybe I got took?

[jabo52521]

When your friends drop by with pewter, sinkers, or solder instead of a casserole or a bottle of wine.
I wish!

[WRideout]

If you sell off boxes of jacketed bullets to buy more casting equipment (I never pay for lead).
Wayne

[fivegunner]

When everybody thinks your first name is Lead, and you have a bunch of friends from city waterworks that love to fill your pickup with way to much lead pipe just to see your face when you walk out of work. :Fire::Fire::castmine:

[Harry O]

Your dentist saves the lead foil around the X-ray film that he uses to check your teeth for the 6ix months since he last saw you -- and gives them all to you.

[azrednek]

Your dentist saves the lead foil around the X-ray film that he uses to check your teeth for the 6ix months since he last saw you -- and gives them all to you.

I had a Dentist doing that for me then he converted to digital X-ray ending the need for the lead.

[1911KY]

When you are up until 2 am on a weeknight counting and aligning your freshly cast soldiers! Then taking pictures to share with the other lead-heads!

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140915_014004_zpsex8cnxgj.jpg

[fatnhappy]

when you have a mould that casts beautifully but odd dimensionally, so you have a rifle built to fit it.

When you create a google search notification for ebay and castboolits swapping & selling for 287308 to see if a third mould is the charm to cure an undersized nose. Then you send the best casting of the 3 to Erik to cut a DD groove.

[rockrat]

When the wife gets upset because you leave "stuff" in your pockets, but you are glad because she found your missing boolit(s).

[rmark]

You see someone shuffling down the side of the road looking at the ground and your wife says "that's you".

Your wife asks what will she do with all this lead if you should die "post 'free lead' on the castboolits website, someone will be here in an hour".

[1johnlb]

If you pick your lead up out the backstop at the range between shot strings.

If your dog is trained to sniff out lead and recover it.

[Garyshome]

When you build your own wood crates to hold your ammo.

[Bzcraig]

When you make up your own doctorate degree certificate that reads PhD in alloyology.
When you pull down your own reloads cause you're bored and reload them.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

when you setup a photobucket account to
host photos to buy and sell items online
...and more than half of the photos look like this one.
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu127/JonB_in_Glencoe/SL68Linthegroove_zps6e3adee2.jpg (http://s640.photobucket.com/user/JonB_in_Glencoe/media/SL68Linthegroove_zps6e3adee2.jpg.html)

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Oh, another one.
You're at the public range used by many shooters as well as yourself, and while scrounging lead in the berm, you recognize some of your own boolits :)

[rmark]

'while scrounging lead in the berm, you recognize some of your own boolits :smile: '

That happened to me a two weeks ago, but not many people are shooting 405 grain 45-70 bullets on the pistol range. They were from my first test run of the 1884 Trapdoor a few weeks earlier.

[claudesapp]

While you're traveling on business you scrounge lead from tire shops, then pack the wheelweights in your checked airline baggage.

It guarantees TSA will search your bag.

[luis7]

When this is better than sex[smilie=1:117726

[220]

You go to a non casting forum shoot and your the only one shooting cast.
You have other members starting threads asking if you can use some lead.
When lead gets delivered at the shoot from over 600km away after the effort of multiple members.
When you would rather spend money on new moulds than a new rifle

[bedbugbilly]

When your wife asks . . "Another bullet mold?" And your stock answer is . . . "No dear, I've had this one a long time . . . " :-) And . . . she just smiles as she knows it is new and she goes and orders a few more skeins of yarn for her hobby.

[1911KY]

When you would rather do this than sleep!

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140929_010801_zpsnn9jelog.jpg

[gwpercle]

You keep encouraging your daughter to marry a certain young man, because his father is in the tire business and you just know the kid is going to inherit the business and you will be family and have a life time supply of FREE WHEEL WEIGHTS!
Never mind you can't stand the kid, for free ww's you will learn to love him . And your daughter will do what ever it takes make sure her spouse treats her Daddy real well.
Gary

[1911KY]

You keep encouraging your daughter to marry a certain young man, because his father is in the tire business and you just know the kid is going to inherit the business and you will be family and have a life time supply of FREE WHEEL WEIGHTS!
Never mind you can't stand the kid, for free ww's you will learn to love him . And your daughter will do what ever it takes make sure her spouse treats her Daddy real well.
Gary

Hahaha...:Bright idea:....that's good stuff!! Too bad my daughter is 3!! Gotta scrounge for a few years, I will keep an eye out for the shop owners kids!!

[azrednek]

Hahaha...:Bright idea:....that's good stuff!! Too bad my daughter is 3!! Gotta scrounge for a few years, I will keep an eye out for the shop owners kids!!

Unfortunately if your daughter is only three. If the trend continues, by the time she is of legal marrying age. Lead will be prohibited but pot will be for sale at nearly every convenience store.

[GhostHawk]

I recently reached a landmark agreement with my Wife. Money paid out for new guns would be matched by a donation to her cash fund.

The last one went to buy a really sweet singer featherlight sewing machine that is probably older than my wife. :)

It is one way to slow down my shopping desires. :)

On the other hand I am now a proud owner of a Handi Rifle, and I might just have to order some new barrels so I have some new calibers to play with. :) Like .357 or .35 rem. :)

Addicted? No, what would give you that idea? Why only an Addict would buy a gun he doesn't need for an excuse to play with a new caliber, right? Whooops, did I say that out loud?

[pjames32]

GhostHawk-my wife has a Singer Featherweight names "alice" built in 1948 the year of her birth. When I get gunstuff it is called "fabric". When she gets quiltstuff it is called "gunstuff". After 45+ years we let each other do our own thing. It works for us!

[rrob692326]

At Christmas time the boys at the scrapyard are the first ones to get Santa's delivery of heineken

[GoodOlBoy]

When a person who barely knows you asks "Can you reload X caliber?" and you reply "I don't THINK I have those dies, but I do have a mold to cast the boolits!" and they look at you like you have a third eyeball. (Happened last Friday to me :p )

When old fellers in the area whose guns you keep fed with obsolete ammo make their grandkids bring you half their wild game every year as a thank you.

When old fishermen in the area bring you old pure lead sinkers because you trade them double the poundage for zinc "corrupt" sinkers.

When the grandkids of a neighbor steal your pure lead flashing to make fishing weights and their grandparents immediately know the difference and call you (getting firewood cut for free as an apology)

When you are in the doctors office to get a family member an xray and the doctors want to discuss you disposing of the old lead when the xray room gets rebuilt.

GoodOlBoy

[1johnlb]

When the wife throws away the honeydo list because it's over a year old.

When you try convincing your wife that lead is a good retirement investment.

When you have to get your lead shipment delivered to a buddies house,so your wife don't find out.

[Digger]

When you get enough lead to crack the slab in your mancave ....:(

[Ido356]

When your smelting range scrap from the shooing range that uses convoy belts for target backing, and someone in your neighborhood sees the black smoke and calls the fire department. They drive slowly through the neighborhood sirens blaring and end up stopping in front of your house, you look at them, they look at you, and you smile and wave.
(Note to self; smelt range scrap at night)

When your buddy that does old brown stone house rehabs, brings you all the lead pipes from his latest rehab because he knows I’ll pay more for lead scrap than the scrap yard down the road does.

[Shiloh]

I have a practice thatI borrowed from a friend called "Making Brass"
This is shooting a supply that now needs to be processed and have boolits cast for it.

Cast, load, shoot, repeat.

Shiloh

[John Allen]

You get worried when you realize you only have three thousand pounds of lead.

762
I agree with this one totally.