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Bought a mold from Frosty Boolit. In good shape just like he said and shipped expeditiously.

Sounds about right. It took 2 tumbles to coat and the first one looked like about 5% coverage. They work pretty good as 9mm blasters but I think I'm going to get another powder from smokes or...

Thanks for all the help. I finally shot them and they grouped very poorly. I've decided I need to to size them bigger at the base and try sizing the noses down so I ordered the NOE kit to have the...

Yeah, it is plain based. From what I understand a very old and successful design. Definitely before powder coating was ever thought of...

Well, I could seat them deeper of course. The .308 sized portion of the bullet is way off the lands. It's the unsized nose part of the bullet that seems to be touching the bore due to the powder...

First time casting for rifle:

The boolit is a Lyman #308241 cast from half range scrap / half magnum shot and powder. They come out at .311 / 157 grains and I sized them with a .308 Lee sizer and...

Thanks for the info. Yeah, it even looks dirty. I'm going to melt it down into ingots this week I think. It'll be interesting to see,

I scored this stuff from the scrapyard a while back and it's clearly smashed up lead tubing of some kind. It's fairly hard to the fingernail also.

I'm really wondering if there's...

My first attempt at casting and powder coating. Lee 124 grain tumble lube mold.

Prior to these, I loaded up 10 rounds bare and alox lubed to see if my soft side range lead would...well...not...

Hey thanks! Been interested in trying casting for a bit. Haven't cast any bullets but made some real pretty muffin pan ingots the other night. Fun stuff