Yeah. Teach kids to shoot, reload, hunt, cast they will associate with people of good character. Don't teach them to do all that and they may still shoot- at each other.
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It was last week sometime, but I cast 40 RD 170 gr fn 30 Cal for a friend of mine, and a few hundred 9mm for myself.
I've been trying different 50 caliber moulds to get one to chamber in my swede rolling block for about a month, neither of the Lee 515 moulds would chamber, so the hunt went on. Today the Lyman mould arrived, it is the 395 gr plains boolit made for stuffing down a muzzle loader, but it fit the resized case mouth perfect as cast, and after seating case mouth tension is perfect too. Now if is does not rain tomorrow I hope to try to see how it shoots.
Starting load is 50 grains of Pyrodex RS, over a magnum rifle primer, powder is covered by a cardboard wad, and topped with Lyman 395 gr Plains boolit.
Here is how they look.
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Cast about 1062 Lee 124 gr .356 boolits coming out of a "Horn of Plenty"Attachment 218911
Cast a couple dozen Lee .562 round ball to see if they were a snug but not overly tight fit in 20 gauge with a wad. Now going out to do a couple hundred because they fit very well.
The last two days, I've been cleaning my garage. I hope to cast some ingots tomorrow...um, I mean later today after I get some sleep. Smelting range scrap and misc bullet rejects and refining 3 years worth of dross. Pictures will happen, if I actually get at it. stay tuned.
Got a new RCBS Easy Melt pot a few weeks ago and gave it a descent workout this past weekend. Had to adjust the temp to match my NOE stick thermometer, but, very happy with the new pot!
L-R Arsenal 359-130 FP. NOE 453-230 RN HG51 Clone, and NOE 360-172-SWC Keith Brass Mold
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NOE 453-196 SWC HG 130 Clone.
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Haha, same bins I use !
Been smelting down my SOWW stash off and on for the last week. Started off with 1.5 buckets of used weights. Ended up with a full 5 gal bucket of my one pound scone ingots. Stinky nasty job, but feels good to have a little stockpile of soft lead ready to go.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d0c248561f.jpg
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First attempt at casting hollow points today, with a homemade modification to a Lee 429-240-2R to boot (also my first). Its been an interesting learning curve. Still have some refining/tweaking to do, but I have 200+ custom hollow point boolits to show for my efforts.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...08b5aba502.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...53e4b063b5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1ad50cdf09.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...2e7f0e780e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...115cb15da8.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...883dd07a8a.jpg
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000 buckshot Lee mold. I found that breaking the pellets apart is a lot easier than cutting with a knife. Side cutters leave marks beside the sprue.
JohnB where did you get that stool? I want one.
Good job on the mould modification and good looking hp Dunkem
I cast and shoot the same bullet as you. my mold is a single cavity. Just got thru casting 300 today and sizing them. Tomorrow. I will powder coat them. I'll wait to put a gas check on them and resize before I load them up.
Nice looking pile there Grmps.