bedbugbilly
06-20-2023, 06:33 PM
As my father always said – “That’s another good job done.”. I’m “older” and am downsizing on the reloading. I don’t shoot as much anymore and am going to concentrate mainly on my C & B revolvers with conversion cylinders and my old 38s.
So today was “clean up the boolit shelf day”. Like a lot of folks, I had peanut jars with boolits – some with just a few rounds in them and others that I had waaaaay too many of for guns I don’t own anymore. I fired up the pot and was just going to do some of them, but it sort of got away from me. By the time I finished up, I’d “baked” 59 muffins worth of range lead – some of which were from boolits I had cast over 25 yers ago, I have to say that when I got done, the “boolit shelf” looked a lot better, was fully organized and I now have muffins to melt when it comes time to cast up more of what I load and use now. Some were for rifles that I no longer own in calibers I no longer shoot. It felt good when I got done – a job I have put off for, well, years.
Being “old”, I mark my lead so I know what it is, ‘cause after time, I may forget what it is, I use a permanent marker – RL = range lead, PL = pure lead and HL = hard lead.
All of today’s work was range lead. Next job is to melt down some heavy foundry pigs of pure lead that I have put off for longer than I should.
So today was “clean up the boolit shelf day”. Like a lot of folks, I had peanut jars with boolits – some with just a few rounds in them and others that I had waaaaay too many of for guns I don’t own anymore. I fired up the pot and was just going to do some of them, but it sort of got away from me. By the time I finished up, I’d “baked” 59 muffins worth of range lead – some of which were from boolits I had cast over 25 yers ago, I have to say that when I got done, the “boolit shelf” looked a lot better, was fully organized and I now have muffins to melt when it comes time to cast up more of what I load and use now. Some were for rifles that I no longer own in calibers I no longer shoot. It felt good when I got done – a job I have put off for, well, years.
Being “old”, I mark my lead so I know what it is, ‘cause after time, I may forget what it is, I use a permanent marker – RL = range lead, PL = pure lead and HL = hard lead.
All of today’s work was range lead. Next job is to melt down some heavy foundry pigs of pure lead that I have put off for longer than I should.