Cast about 20 pounds of .45 boolits. Tried water dropping a few,but didn't like the resultant splashes. Never had tried it before.
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Cast about 20 pounds of .45 boolits. Tried water dropping a few,but didn't like the resultant splashes. Never had tried it before.
Today I got off my rear and turned 400 lbs of lino bars into ingots. Took about 2 hrs. Been meaning to get this done for about 6 months.
More case prep ...................
Jack
Loaded 2 boxes of 28 gauge. Gonna make the best of the last few days of wabbit season!
Sounds like something I ought to investigate.....
I use two towels. Top one ramps towards the back of the bucket and doesn't touch the water. Second one is below the first and ramps from the back of the bucket to the front. This prevents all splashes. Also makes it easy to get the bullets out w/ dumping the water or reaching in.
I cut off some brass to make 300 BLK w/. Got done deburring, I'm anal, and set the press up to form them. That's when I realized I only bought a neck sizer since I'm buying a bolt gun. Time to order more dies. I need to order a case gage anyway.
Haven't made it in there yet. May load up a few rounds for Scopekiller to see if the latest repair attempt holds. Or I could clear off the dining room table to get ready to do taxes......where'd those 35 Rem cases get off to? ;-)
I oiled the wheels on my portable heater. Now I have to go out and refill the propane tank for next weekend.
My reloading area is an area about 8'X12' in my basement shop. Junk (aka brilliantly clever ideas at the time) was accumulating throughout my shop, including my reloading, casting area. Over the last two days I have reorganized all of my shelves and drawers in my reloading area and thrown out 2 1/2 garbage bags worth of (at the time) brilliant ideas. Looks much nicer now.
For those of you wondering about ventilation. My reloading bench is directly below a window. When I started casting there, I repurposed an old two fan window fan, building a wooden frame around it that fits in the window mentioned above.
I set the fan to exhaust air out of the shop and open a window at the other end of the shop. Does a good job of moving in from behind me, over my little Lee 10lb bottom pour furnace and out the window.
I wish you all a good new year,
MichiganMike
Boxed up 35 boxes of 20 gauge shotshells that I loaded this week
on my Texan M reloader :)
Soooo went through about 50 pounds of wheelweights :o
Mike
I cast a few this morning. RCBS 25 85 CM, RCBS 32 98 SWC , and some Accurate ?? big fat .44's for son's 44 BH. I got the 44's and 25's weighed out and stored in boxes. Just making a pile of the 32's here lately but it's getting pretty big. JW
50 lee 309-170-F ahead of 28.2g of r-15 (long range match). What not to love, total cost $0.13 a piece vs $0.85 at Wally World.
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Bob
Yet more case prep ............
Jack
Spent around 30 minutes just sitting there looking over all the powders, primers and cast lead boolits I have and hoped that someday soon I will be able to get back to casting and reloading...
Does looking at it through the back door count ;)
To cold to attempt to work in it. Only going to get colder as the week progresses. Is the bathroom a reloading room if you're reading Hodgdon's Annual in it :laugh:
This weekend I finished loading all the 45acp brass I had prepped. I need to clean and prep another batch and pour more BOOLITS for them! Next up will be prepping brass for 223 loads.
I sized a bunch of. 314 and 309 boolites. Too dam cold to do any molding. I got three molds and a sizer in the mail to me. Hope it warms up soon so I can get molding in the garage.
loaded up a bunch of 250 savage ammo for a friend. he was thrilled when he found out.