Boolit casting - photo montage

[Land Owner]

A post to get the brain thinking, shared here as a photo montage of lead boolit casting:

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The bags of shotgun pellets were not actually melted. There was no convenient picture of the raw materials. Other than that, Enjoy!

[358429]

That's really cool and thank you for showing your way! Can you tell about those rifles, what they feel like and how it is to shoot them?

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[Der Gebirgsjager]

very enjoyable montage, Land Owner. Thanks for posting it and putting in all the time to do so. Nice looking boolits. Did you really melt down those nice old goblets?

DG

[Land Owner]

Truth be told, I could not bring myself to melt the goblets. They are "alive and well" today! I scour Thrift Stores, Goodwill, flea markets, and garage sales for pewter and tin. I found a couple of HEAVY and CHEAP pewter pieces on the "Reduced for Quick Sale" shelves of a local retail furniture store and bought them. SWMBO promptly "confiscated" my heaviest piece, a 22" tall, flute-necked flower vase, that weighs a smidge under 5 pounds, and was purchased for $25 cash.

I really want to SIZE these pictures, for uniformity, to similar width and height, but the BBCode on this site does not seem to conform to "routine and customary". Can someone point me to the BBCode "cookbook" for this site?

Those are New England Firearms (NEF), single shot, 223 caliber, Handi-rifles, made by Remington well before the 1st bankruptcy. Now, Handi-rifles are no longer made - by anyone. These two rifles shoot jacketed bullets well, but not so well - as yet - with cast boolits. I am still accurizing them. I have been pushing cast too fast leading to air friction and rotational vaporization of projectiles about 20 yards downrange. Yep, too light and too fast!

The upper is a 1:9 twist Bull Barrel, which I hope to tune into a 100-yd. cloverleaf shooter. The other is a 1:12 twist Standard "tapered" barrel that shoots well, but I am not as focused on its performance. Both have taken turkeys and hogs, but not yet with cast boolits. I have a LOT to learn about casting for 223 caliber. In particular, I will be looking for a heavy for caliber mold, or two, as the 1:9 Bull Barrel is not digesting my 50 grain cast boolits.

[cwlongshot]

Good Job Richard!!

Love del lil Bators!!

CW

[Sasquatch-1]

Truth be told, I could not bring myself to melt the goblets. They are "alive and well" today! I scour Thrift Stores, Goodwill, flea markets, and garage sales for pewter and tin. I found a couple of HEAVY and CHEAP pewter pieces on the "Reduced for Quick Sale" shelves of a local retail furniture store and bought them. SWMBO promptly "confiscated" my heaviest piece, a 22" tall, flute-necked flower vase, that weighs a smidge under 5 pounds, and was purchased for $25 cash.


I have run into the same problem buying pewter at yard sales. I will get it really cheap, bring it home and the next thing I know is the pieces are washed and placed on the hutch cabinet in the dining room. I do get to keep the banged up pieces.:veryconfu

[beechbum444]

The wire mesh is a great idea to stand booolits up

[WRideout]

I have run into the same problem buying pewter at yard sales. I will get it really cheap, bring it home and the next thing I know is the pieces are washed and placed on the hutch cabinet in the dining room. I do get to keep the banged up pieces.:veryconfu

Your pewter piece could have an "accident" on the way home.

Wayne

[Land Owner]

Yeah, lol. That's similar to what another said - run over by a tire. Trouble on this day - SWMBO was THERE at the time of the purchase. I did not KNOW it was going to go down that road when I got home. NOW I KNOW, can plan accordingly, and go pewter hunting by MYSELF.

Still, I have had "luck" - knock on plastic - in finding reasonably and cheaply priced pewter. Not saying where. You guys are way too good for me to provide any clues.



I am "sorry" for one aspect in the OP - the random SIZE of the photos. I am working on a solution in the TEST Forum, but have found nothing - short of resizing each photo individually and uploading them again. It may come to that. Clean, clear, Thread Format runs deep in me...

[Walks]

BOY HOWDY !!!

That is a LOT of Altoids !!!!

Impressive casting

[Land Owner]

hehe...Altoid cans - YES. A PERFECT FIT for storing and shipping cast boolits and a LOT of single and double cavity mold effort went into those cans. I have been motivated, after a two year hiatus away from casting, reloading, hunting, and shooting. [Not meant to be depressing...the reason - a very close personal friend's death (my reloading, shooting, and hunting Mentor), that left a HUGE hole in my heart. I grew some scar tissue in that time and recently returned to the Light of the Living.]

My wife is the Catholic Church Secretary/Music Director. She and her Choir cohorts eat mints to keep their mouths from drying before they sing. I like them as breath mints. Together, the Choir ladies and my wife keep their cans and give them to me. I have a LOT of them. There is nothing that cannot be done through Christ and these ladies prove that every day and twice on Sunday. There is a God - and I am not Him.

[jdfoxinc]

Cant see photos. Just >==

[Sasquatch-1]

Cant see photos. Just >==

Must be on your end. I can still see them.

[dondiego]

Boolit porn!

[Land Owner]

^^^heck yeah!^^^

That's what a poster on another site, lamenting the plethora of political posts and the degradation of that site, said when I made him smile at those!!!!

[John Guedry]

Looks great! I'm a user of Altoid tins too.

[samari46]

Cookie tins, tea tins,old cigarette tins and some cigar tins. Went in the local Rouse's and asked what they do with the wood cigar boxes. Got a stupid look from one guy. Asked if they would save them for me. Told them a buck apiece for each one they save. Haven't heard from them yet. Frank

[Land Owner]

My local cigar store is "proud" of their empty boxes at $5 each. Too rich for me and most are too weakly made to hold much lead (paper and glue or thin wood, fragile hinges, and brads as "nails").

Resized the pictures in the OP for a formatted and more "professional" look [complete].

[Sasquatch-1]

My local cigar store is "proud" of their empty boxes at $5 each. Too rich for me and most are too weakly made to hold much lead (paper and glue or thin wood, fragile hinges, and brads as "nails").


You can blame the Hobby Lobby/Michaels crafters for that price.

[gunther]

Not so expensive, trendy wristwatches are occasionally marketed in tins that might be the right size. If you hae someone on your Christmas list who needs a watch, keep the tin.