Jumping Frog
09-14-2009, 08:24 PM
Here is how I was able to spend some of my time this weekend.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1927.jpg
The boolits on the left are Lee 125 gr 9mm FN boolits made via water-quenched wheelweights.
The ones on the right are some sample .45 ACP made with a Lyman mold using wheelweights sweetened with some tin.
Before people start jumping on my case about water and molten lead, these are far enough apart and I've made thousands of boolits this way without incident. I see no practical means by which that water is going to jump out of the pan and dive into the lead pot.
Adding a little tin sure makes them pretty:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1928.jpg
After it was all said and done, this is about 1400 new projectiles ready to be loaded into brass cases with appropriate propellant and sent down range.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1930.jpg
Here they are after sizing and lubing with LLA:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1948.jpg
I did find this interesting so thought I'd share it. There were about 7 boolits in the batch that were apparently oversized enough that sizing them down left a flash ring around the base. I guess the Lee punch is sufficiently smaller than the Lee sizing die to allow lead to flow into the gap.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1952-2.jpg
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1927.jpg
The boolits on the left are Lee 125 gr 9mm FN boolits made via water-quenched wheelweights.
The ones on the right are some sample .45 ACP made with a Lyman mold using wheelweights sweetened with some tin.
Before people start jumping on my case about water and molten lead, these are far enough apart and I've made thousands of boolits this way without incident. I see no practical means by which that water is going to jump out of the pan and dive into the lead pot.
Adding a little tin sure makes them pretty:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1928.jpg
After it was all said and done, this is about 1400 new projectiles ready to be loaded into brass cases with appropriate propellant and sent down range.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1930.jpg
Here they are after sizing and lubing with LLA:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1948.jpg
I did find this interesting so thought I'd share it. There were about 7 boolits in the batch that were apparently oversized enough that sizing them down left a flash ring around the base. I guess the Lee punch is sufficiently smaller than the Lee sizing die to allow lead to flow into the gap.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Jumping_Frog/DSCF1952-2.jpg
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.