Jack Stanley
01-02-2010, 09:51 PM
Well , some may think of the whole reloading and casting of projectile thing as the pathway to perdition . Depending on whose bench we look at here it's a path , road , four lane interstate or in some cases an autobahn .
One of the fellas I know was picking my carcass for information about reloading a couple years ago did get a loading kit and got a start . Being so cheap he squeaks walking and has the ability to make a Lincoln penny scream for liberty , he started asking about casting . Like the loading info , I told him what little I knew and gave him a handful of cast bullets for his hornet rifle to fool with . Apparently that was like salt on the tomato for him and he started getting casting stuff . Looking for more info about molds ( and talking my ear off while I'm inspecting bullets ) I invited him to come over and warm up the lead pot and look at a few molds .
Today , he showed up bearing gifts of lead and ready to see about "cheap" bullets . I started him off showing him the reject pile of bullets and let him figure out why I was gonna melt them back down , he could see the flaws and understood . Next , I showed him the reject pile that was gonna get shot at close range targets at thirty yards , he was surprised I called them rejects . Then he got to look at the bullets that I was gonna use for anything else and all he said was wow!
By that time the scrap was melted and I was warming up a mold . We went through the basics explaining the how and why of everything from fluxing and adding metal to inspecting the hot slugs while the mold is cooling . After I had about fifteen pounds of bullets in the pile , I put him in the drivers chair and talked him through it . He was rather shakey and uncertain at the start but the mold was warm enough that it was very forgiving of the student driver . He added another couple pounds to the pile and we called it quits ...... something about his wife was expecting him an hour earlier [smilie=f:
So as he was getting ready to leave I gave hime several hundred lubed and sized bullets for his revolver and the pile of bullets we had just cast . Rather surprised and appreciative at the same time I also added some extra credit to his "homework" I also gave hime the pile of rejects and a load recipe to run through his 1917 rifle . Never expecting all of this he offered to pay for everything and I just said " Nahhhh ..... ya gotta do your own homework !! "
I dunno ........... do ya think I set the hook deep enough ?
Jack
One of the fellas I know was picking my carcass for information about reloading a couple years ago did get a loading kit and got a start . Being so cheap he squeaks walking and has the ability to make a Lincoln penny scream for liberty , he started asking about casting . Like the loading info , I told him what little I knew and gave him a handful of cast bullets for his hornet rifle to fool with . Apparently that was like salt on the tomato for him and he started getting casting stuff . Looking for more info about molds ( and talking my ear off while I'm inspecting bullets ) I invited him to come over and warm up the lead pot and look at a few molds .
Today , he showed up bearing gifts of lead and ready to see about "cheap" bullets . I started him off showing him the reject pile of bullets and let him figure out why I was gonna melt them back down , he could see the flaws and understood . Next , I showed him the reject pile that was gonna get shot at close range targets at thirty yards , he was surprised I called them rejects . Then he got to look at the bullets that I was gonna use for anything else and all he said was wow!
By that time the scrap was melted and I was warming up a mold . We went through the basics explaining the how and why of everything from fluxing and adding metal to inspecting the hot slugs while the mold is cooling . After I had about fifteen pounds of bullets in the pile , I put him in the drivers chair and talked him through it . He was rather shakey and uncertain at the start but the mold was warm enough that it was very forgiving of the student driver . He added another couple pounds to the pile and we called it quits ...... something about his wife was expecting him an hour earlier [smilie=f:
So as he was getting ready to leave I gave hime several hundred lubed and sized bullets for his revolver and the pile of bullets we had just cast . Rather surprised and appreciative at the same time I also added some extra credit to his "homework" I also gave hime the pile of rejects and a load recipe to run through his 1917 rifle . Never expecting all of this he offered to pay for everything and I just said " Nahhhh ..... ya gotta do your own homework !! "
I dunno ........... do ya think I set the hook deep enough ?
Jack