I got home yesterday from a five day trip to South Carolina. I went down to visit my best friend and help him get set up and started in casting. He did a little of it many years ago, but admitted he needed some guidance as he had forgotten a lot of it.
Years ago, somebody gave him three half buckets of VERY large truck WWs. We dragged 'em out of the corner and dumped 'em on the floor of his garage to see what we had to work with. He kept tellin' me "Jim, wipe your mouth off, man, you're droolin'."
On a previous trip last fall, I had given him a 8 qt. dutch oven and a high pressure burner that was left over from the range cleaning project I was doing last year. We set it up and smellted all the WWs down to muffin ingots out on the asphalt driveway.
He's got a nice, old Lyman Mag 20 pot and a few 4 banger Lyman molds that he's collected over the years, so we set up the pot, picked out a mold and got at it.
He watched me run off a few and then I put him behind the wheel. He fell right into it.
The mold he chose to start with is a .358 Lyman style Kieth design. The as cast with the straight WWs came out right at 168 grains.
My friend, who goes by 'Riflerev', has been a member here for awhile, but has been lurking the whole time. I've been encouraging him to post and get involved.
I showed him Swede's site and he like to went mashuga when he saw that .452 'fish bowl' hollow point that Swede makes. He told his wife "That hollow point is so big, you could FALL in it!"
I think I got the hook in 'im, guys. Somebody get a net!
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Originally Posted by Jim
