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Nice score. FWIW "smelting" is the process of turning raw ore into the finished product. What we do is melt stuff down into ingots.

The big pitcher weighs 31 ounces and has a small dent. The store sold all this as one lot. She has a pretty good eye. I have trained her well, lol. She paid $20 for the lot. Not bad for almost four...

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My wife went to a vintage item store here in our town. She scored these items for $20. Only one candelabra is pictured and they were...

I took my wife to the city for a doctor appointment and while she was there I found a thrift store. A minor score of 3.2 ounces for .57 cents. Wish they would have had more.

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Some things my wife picked up at a yard sale today. She's a keeper! $6.00 bucks for 26.8 ounces total.

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I shoot only cast boolits I make myself. I get little to no lead fouling in the bore of any of my handguns. I do, however, seem to get more lead build-up than I'd like on the forcing cone of my Ruger...

20%!? I will ask them about that on my next visit. Not only that, they checked my ID, lol. I was just excited to actually bring some pewter home. My wife was so excited to spot that for me!

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My wife spotted this set at our local Goodwill. Total weight is 13.1 ounces. It was marked $5.99. Minus my 10% senior discount. SCORE!

I use my regular lead ingot mold. Just pour a quarter inch or so in the bottom. Bingo.

My wife, bless her heart, got this at a yard sale for me. She knows I am on the lookout for pewter. This is pretty light and feels like aluminum, or something similar, to me. Weight is 8 oz including...

I just ran across this.

Get better soon! Dislocated elbows hurt!

Exactly why I bought some from the good folks at White Label Lube.

I do all my reloading in the morning/evening on my work bench in the garage where it is easily over 100 degrees during the middle...

Thanks!

I love this forum. You guys ROCK!

I know this is an old thread but I wanted to say thank you to Recluse.

I am pretty new to casting and trying to keep costs down so I don't have a Lubri-sizer. Was using LLA with success but I...

Thank you for the info. I would have tried to use this. I am new to casting and just started watching for pewter in the last couple of weeks.

Found this one also. $1.95 plus tax. I busted out the glass and removed the little gasket so the weight is all pewter.

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Found this at our local Goodwill. $1.95 plus tax.

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How fine does the sawdust need to be? I purchased some pine shavings that they sell at PetSmart for pet bedding. It is pretty fine but not "dust". Also how much and how often in my Lee 4 20 bottom...

The .45LC cylinder shoots fine. The groups are 5" at 50' from a rest but I am pretty sure the gun will do better as I get to know it. I will continue to shoot it and see if I can improve on this. I...

Seating the boolit deeper allows the round to chamber. I am confused, though, how one could "push" a .452" boolit into a .4505" diameter throat. Not going to happen.
I do agree with letting someone...

Ok guys, lets shoot this baby and go from there. It will probably be the long weekend of the 4th of July before I can get to the range.
I'll load up some more .45ACP and seat the boolits so the...

Yep, factory FMJ chambers fine. I put a micrometer on the jacketed bullet right at the case and it measured under .450".

As far as seating the cast boolit deeper and/or applying more...

The barrel grooves are .4508" so a .452" diameter boolit sounds about right I think. Looks like I am going to need to ream the throats to .4525". The .45LC throats are around .4515" so they are a...

A .451" diameter pin will not even start to go in either side of the throat. A .450" pin barely goes but the bores are not "egged", just small. A friend of mine is going to bring a few rounds of...

The throats in my ACP cylinder are .4505" like yours were. In the .45 Colt cylinder they are .4515" to .4518".

Wouldn't want to loan me your reamer would you?

I am going to properly slug my...