I can also vouch for these designs and molds. The 147, especially, is the go to for me and a friend for the Action Pistol sports.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I can also vouch for these designs and molds. The 147, especially, is the go to for me and a friend for the Action Pistol sports.
Forum: Casting Equipment
JB Weld or pinning are the two approaches I’ve used successfully.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I’d guess RotoMetals buys tin directly from the refiner which they then sell to the public. A hardware store buys the solder from the manufacturer who made it with tin they bought from the refiner.
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Also an issue with other action shooting sports, especially the pistol games. Lots of rounds go down range in both practice and matches. That means progressive presses are used to crank out hundreds...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Bayou Classic Jet burner with the solid steel bar frame for me. Effortlessly holds my half 20# propane tank pot with 240-250# of alloy.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I went from buying jacketed to plated to conventionally lubed cast to coated cast when I started reloading pistol rounds in volume (basically I was going for less expense and reasonable accuracy for...
Forum: Casting Equipment
You forgot the lead…
Actually, I’d start with a certified bullet casting alloy, despite the much higher cost vs scrounged lead, tin and hardeners: it eliminates a set of variables as you go...
So you mentioned a casting time availability issue.
I’d go for more cavities: you’ll get 50% more bullets per pour with a slightly longer cycle time (more hot lead in the mold and sprue means the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Then maybe some other factor I don’t recognize accounts for my results.
I shoot gen 3 9mm Glocks with cast sized to 0.357”. The same rounds, loaded on a SDB, worked in all of them, with the single exception of the replacement “Marksman” barrels, that require a slightly...
Forum: Casting Equipment
From personal experience, a half 20# propane tank pot will hold 250# of lead, if level, and leave enough space above the melt for careful fluxing, skimming and ladling without spillage from sloshing....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Opened the door, turned on the light, stared at the mess on my bench, then turned right around, turned out the light and shut the door.
Naw, I sorted brass.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Wow, my stock is mostly VV powder, some of which is more than ten years old, but I’ve never had any powder go bad on me (stored costly in moderate temperatures and humidity).
I agree with BMI on...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Not the same problem but I had very stubborn galling on a brass sizing carbide ring. It took diamond paste on an oversized bore pellet spun VERY BRIEFLY on an electric drill to remove, and a second...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I can confirm that my HiTek coated 147 gr 9mm bullets get more velocity from a given powder charge if they have a lube groove vs similar designs of same weight but slab sided. I also assume that’s...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have noticed that brass that’s been sitting with caked on mud or in puddles on our range (gravel base, sand berms) will often get purple areas in a pattern matching the mud covering or partial...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Gold painted lead strikes me as more convincing (so long as some wise guy doesn’t test the density).
Forum: Cast Boolits
At the moment I use just one alloy, so no need to empty the pots (one feeds the other).
That’s because at the moment I cast just one bullet.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I cast ingots at my club. If I had a dollar for every time somebody said, “Too bad that’s not really gold”, I could buy the real thing!
ETA: It occurs to me that if I did have real Redneck Gold...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I went through the same learning curve.
Appalachian, kudos for researching manufacturers and production dates to maximize Sn and minimize Pb per dollar spent, but I think most hobbyist casters...
I got advice here to shoot for a mold temp around 400° (I actually use 420°). A K type thermocouple inside a cavity lets me know the blocks on my coil hot plate have done the job. The hot plate...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
No other markings on the ingot? Maybe a home mix rather than a commercial product?
XRF analysis would turn it from a hope into a certainty.
Forum: Our Town
I shot irons most of the time in action pistol, and my basic prescription contact lenses correct my dominant/aiming eye to front sight distance and the non dominant eye to distance (infinity). I can...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Same here. Years ago I brought in some scrap cartridge brass, asked if they had any lead and was taken back to where that had old lead pipe and sheet. On the way I tripped over a pile of high tin...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Bearing metal (a version of Babbitt?) seems a good bet, but what percentage of tin and lead i don’t know (some are 90+% tin and others around the same percentage of lead).
If you can’t find a...
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