Bought one from Hatch. Very happy with it.
Type: Posts; User: TexPatriot
Forum: Casting Equipment
Bought one from Hatch. Very happy with it.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thermonuclear device from Dr Strangelove?
Forum: Cast Boolits
I tried casting ingots for the first time. #fail because my electric hot plate couldn’t get the lead hot enough to melt all the way through.
Yesterday - Plan B - the 200k btu propane Turkey fryer...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I used mineral spirits and it came off nice.
How do you dry it off in a situation like this? My plan was to simply let it air dry over a few weeks. My other idea was to put them in a cast iron...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Thanks for the tip. I jus used it for a couple hours. The tape fell off.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yep. I am starting to cast because I want to learn to be more self sufficient. Reloading pistol and rifle ammo went well. Now, I am learning to cast boolits, slugs, and buckshot.
I went to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have read a lot of different opinions on how hard buckshot should be. I am going to start on the soft side of things and save my stash of harder stuff for boolits.
Definitely going to do this...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I came into a paint bucket full of lead stick on wheel weights. I know that it almost pure lead which will be perfect for the buckshot I want to cast with it.
I have seen lots of videos on how to...
I have some Fiocchi shells, 12S4 wads, but cannot find any OO buckshot data with Longshot. Where did you get it?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I ordered a Forster Co-Ax Press - cry once.
It will pair nicely with my Lyman Turret Press which will be used primarily for Pistol.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I live in North Texas. Had a package go from the Hutchins (Major hub just out Dallas) Distribution Center to the Main Dallas Post office and back (about 10 miles each way) TWICE before they shipped...
Thank you for that information. I already have those. Perfect.
Due to the boredom caused by Covid, I decided to get into casting my own bullets and to take up shotgun reloading with buckshot and slugs as my focus.
To my surprise, the reloading data shot buck...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |