First good casting session!
Previously I had cast a few boolits using a Lee tl 200grn SWC .452 and some scrap bullets. Being my first attempt at casting I had issues w/ pot temp and mold temp, lots of wrinkled boolits. The few that did come out fine I loaded as long as I could and they were a little short for my factory Para mags but ran fine in my CMC mags.
In light of this I got a Lee 200grn SWC non-tl mold and used it in my recent casting session. I really got the hang of it this time around and can't believe how fast 8# of WW goes from ingot to silver stream then to boolits. I had a few wrinkled ones to start with but I figured I would so just dropped them right into the sprue pile. I also used saw dust to flux w/ and I must say that I like that better than the stuff I purchased to flux w/ just wish I had read the book From Ingot to Target (Thanks Glen Fryxell!) before shopping. I dropped all of my boolits onto a wet towel as I am shooting them at target velocity.
Now for lubing, as stated before I used a tumble lube bullet before and lubed them w/ LLA. I really don't care for the smell (when lubing or shooting), I also don't like the tackiness of the exposed part of the boolits (I shoot uspsa single stack and occasionally I drop a mag w/ 2 rounds or so and the tend to pick up dirt and grit). The bullets I started loading with were Missouri Bullets 200gr SWC and I was happy with them so I picked up some Thompsons Blue Angel and melted it into a 8" round cake pan and put it in a little toaster oven I had for a previous project. This worked great and in a matter of 5 hrs from set up to clean up I had 8# of boolits cast and lubed ready to shoot. I purchased one of the Waxmeister pan lube tools that a user here is selling and it worked great (my solution to the sore thumb was to wear a heavy glove). Now just have to put them over 5.4-5.7gr unique and see what happens. Thanks for all the help here and sorry for the long rant. I am definetly addicted to casting now.
