I'm 54 years old and have been casting for 37 years. My 25 year old son just purchased his first handgun 3 weeks ago. He shot his first cast in it yesterday...Ray
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I'm 54 years old and have been casting for 37 years. My 25 year old son just purchased his first handgun 3 weeks ago. He shot his first cast in it yesterday...Ray
Gonna be 60 next time. Three kids, 2 boys & a girl. The boys both shoot, one hunts and my daughter is not "afraid of those things". I could, and I will, get her to go shoot some time. No grandkids yet. I'm waiting impatiently. Mike
snaggdit, let your son teach her.... When kids grasp something they hold on to it tight. If he's got it right (from you) he can pass it on to his Mom and proud to.
61.
From the look of it, we older guys need to do some sales of our hobby.
I started when I got out of the service in 1968, reloading, then casting for a .357 Hawes Western Marshall.
With the exception of a 2 yr lapse due to work, have been casting for 38 yrs. Still have a few boxes of boolits that I cast in the 70's from wheel weights. Wanta guess how soft they are?
Keep spreading the word about casting and how much fun it can be, and lets find some more people to pass our knowledge on to. Maybe this ammo shortage will help.
Ray
65 1/2 Got a BB gun when I was 6. Been hooked on guns ever since. Started handloading [shotshells] when I was 10, rifle at 15. Played with casting about 20 yrs. ago but did'nt know squat. Retired now and into casting full time. One daughter, does'nt shoot but son-in-law got hooked on hunting and handloading [from me] and looking forward to when he will have time to cast.
I would like to add that this site is the most friendly, free with advice site on the internet. This is one great bunch of people, even Junior!
Larry
31 I shoot as often as I can, but it usually works out to a few times a month.
49, I shoot as often as I can. Don't cast enough. 2 Boys enjoy shooting too.
I'm 55 (going on 56, hopefully) - have five boys one girl. All 6 have been to the range, some are more interested than others. My youngest, 11 yrs old has cast his first 25 boolits (.38 wadcutters), and lubed them. We'll [correction - he will] be loading them soon -- he hasn't tried the new S&W 642 yet, and will be doing so with rounds that he has cast and reloaded himself.
Randy
I'm 23 getting to almost 24. Been casting for 2 years now and reloading for 4. Got into it with the intention of saving money for more guns, it didn't work so well. Now I just end up with more ammo. :)
54... have two sons, one being 30 , the other 15 and just learning to drive. They both love to hunt but don't shoot or cast much if any.
The numbers seem pretty much in line with a previous Poll
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=49403
49
I was 25 before i layed down for that nap. Dang time goes fast. Next time i blink i'll be older yet, if i'm lucky enough.
4 children 2 grand kids.
Casting for a few years and reloading since i was 17....Guns/shooting make my world go around. I still get excited when i see a deer, gun or a gun range.
My two boys and young daughter shoot with me time to time, oldest daughter is in the Navy,soo far away i forgot what she looks like. God bless her heart.
I'm a month short of 71 and have been reloading since 1954. Started casting boolits in the mid-1980s and have been addicted to the Silver Stream ever since.
sleeper1428
53 casting off an on for 28 years. I've been shooting a US model of 1917 lately and casting for it and a handgun. This is great fun! mike
44, been shootin since I could hold a gun, reloading for the last 22 years or so, casting my own fishing sinkers since the early 80s and recently started castin my own boolits... Three kids with only one 17 year old still at home. My oldest has been shooting since he could stand, the middle one (my daughter) has enjoyed shooting a little, but hasn't been involved since she left home for college three yeas ago. My youngest (17 year old boy) isn't really quite sure, he does go to the range with us and does seem to enjoy it a little bit but doesn't really get that excited. All three of my children have enjoyed helping me reload over the years but I think my oldest son will be the only one to continue on..
43 years old, been fiddling with casting for a couple years, but mainly simple stuff, casting round balls for slingshot ammo and the like.
Bought a beat up bottom pour Saeco pot at an auction sale a while back, and started looking at getting serious about casting this year.
'Course, I had to go the hard way, and start casting for .22's! :D
Looking to build cheap ammo for plinking and the odd gopher patch excursion, as well as, eventually, starlings in the fruit trees, back home.
Been reading what I can for a while now, just getting rolling on production. Gotta get off my duff and finish my gas check maker!
Cheers
Trev
34, Married 1 year to second wife, no kids but they are in the plans
Been reloading off and on since 16, shooting since I was old enough to hold a .22 rifle, casting on my own since last year but learned how from an "adopted" grandfather when I was in high school, my family is full of occasional hunters and plinkers but I had to look far to find tutelage in reloading and casting. I have learned much from that great man vowed to spread what I have learned to anyone interested as he did to me, there are too few fully knowledgeable men in my generation.
Gear
58 . Started reloading and casting at the same time out of necessity in my early 20's.
63 and counting; 2 sons of age, but with felony records, and a girl, mother of only grandchild, who doesn't see firearms my way. Whatever.
Gave up hi-power and 2700 for cas; haven't had so much fun since. Been shooting cas over 20 yr. Had the boys, when legal, and my nephew shooting with me. doesn't get much better. Shot my first match with own boolits and lube last week and had a ball. No room to back up, hafta charge ahead. laterbye. mm
74 years young with a lot more to go. Been shooting since I was 14, Went into reloading in 1963
Graduated into casting around 1968, during the "Riots" while on the BPD. Became Pistol Team Captain, in 1974 and kept that rank 'till I retired in 1992. After retiring, the team voted me Team Captain again, There was an older Sergeant there who got me started in casting & reloading my own ammo from "backstop lead".That really cut the cost of practice ammo, & lead me into an ongoing hobby which I still enjoy. There's nothing like winning a pistol match with your own 'home brewed' ammo. Only been here in "Cast Boolits" for a few months, and have pick up some VERY GOOD INFORMATION.