Is this boolit material ?
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/002-112.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/004-79.jpg
Mike
Type: Posts; User: 6mm250
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Is this boolit material ?
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/002-112.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/004-79.jpg
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looks like a hotplate will be my next purchase.
Thanks
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
The mold is Lyman 358477 , 4 cavity. I preheat by putting it on top of the pot.
I don't experience these problems with Lyman 35891 , 4 cavity , using the same technique/alloy.
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
I bought a used Lyman 4 cavity mold , steel blocks. I tried casting boolits & they came out wrinkled , I smoked the cavities with my trusty Bic , the boolits are wrinkled. I put the mold blocks in my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yeah , I set the mold on top of the pot , I also added a little flea market pewter to the wheel weights
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have a Lee sizer on the way , I will try that & LLA until I can do better.
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have two 41 magnums , a Dan Wesson revolver and a 14" Contender , if they don't shoot good in one maybe they will shoot good in the other.
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
From Lyman 41032 , I made a couple hundred of these the other day.
http://imageshack.us/a/img96/9528/7b2e.jpg
They are almost straight wheel weights & fell from the mold at 215 gr and .4134...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A lot of them old Romans were perverts , reckon drinking lead was the cause of it ?
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
I live near the coast of NC & a question occurred to me today when I saw some lead net weights advertised for sale. Would net weights being underwater for long periods cause them to become...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I do not have one of these rifles , yet , but I intend to. The Berdan II is what I imagine my Great-Grandfather used when he fought in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Berdans show up on GB...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Anybody loading this cartridge ?
If so , what are you using for brass , bullets ?
Mike
I haven't tried that one yet but it should be interesting in my 14" Contender.
Mike
Do you have any idea why they put that long "nose" on that bullet ?
I just got this mold , I am eager to shoot some of these boolits from my Dan Wesson and my Contender.
Mike
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/001-98_zps71d8f5e5.jpg
The boolit on the left is the 41032 , the boolit on the right is a more conventional SWC.
So , what was the more "truncated...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
edwin41 , any chance you could post pics of your plating setup ?
Mike
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I'm new at this here boolit casting.
I have smelted down a bunch of the good old timey clip on wheel weights & got me some nice clean ingots (several hundred lbs)
I also have some dead soft lead...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I'm not trying it , no way , no how.
Mike
Forum: Cast Boolits
Does lead work harden the way that many other metals do ? I guess what I'm trying to get at here is , when you size a boolit , does that part of the boolit that is worked by the die get any harder ?...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Does tin harden the alloy at all or is it just for good mold fill out ?
Thanks
Mike
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Anybody know if this spoon is pewter ? I got it with some other stuff at the fleece market.
It's got a "Williamsburg Restoration" hallmark and "Max Rieg"
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I tried out the wood splitter this AM , it did the job but it didn't like it.
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/e0625889.jpg
Had to go round 'n round
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I never heard of such , had to take stout rafters to hold a roof full of those up.
Mike
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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 |
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