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  • under 20

    4 0.24%
  • 20-30

    91 5.43%
  • 31-40

    182 10.85%
  • 41-45

    114 6.80%
  • 46-50

    127 7.57%
  • 51-55

    176 10.49%
  • 56-60

    216 12.88%
  • 61-65

    288 17.17%
  • 66-70

    222 13.24%
  • 71-75

    172 10.26%
  • 76-80

    63 3.76%
  • 81-85

    15 0.89%
  • OLDER THEN 85

    7 0.42%
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Thread: Age of boolit casters

  1. #321
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    Wow! It is really heartening to hear of you two 30 something's getting into casting! I started at a very early age and have never had an ammo shortage. Lay in as many primers as you can when the price comes back to normal. Lay in 8 pound jugs of powder when it goes on sale and reduced Hazmat fees. You will thank me in a few years.

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    I posted my age long enough ago that my category has changed. I got into casting much later than the ones that
    dondiego mentioned. I think I was in my mid 50's. I'll be 79 on Sunday. I've done more shooting since the pandemic started than in the few years before. I've loaded many 100's of rounds for sons and grandsons. I haven't reached the bottom of the components barrel yet. I hope everyone has learned a lesson from both the pandemic and the recent election.
    John
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    Quote Originally Posted by dondiego View Post
    Wow! It is really heartening to hear of you two 30 something's getting into casting! I started at a very early age and have never had an ammo shortage. Lay in as many primers as you can when the price comes back to normal. Lay in 8 pound jugs of powder when it goes on sale and reduced Hazmat fees. You will thank me in a few years.
    I would have started sooner but I only got into the shooting sports 3 years ago. Lots of catching up to do


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  4. #324
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helka View Post
    I would have started sooner but I only got into the shooting sports 3 years ago. Lots of catching up to do


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    Still, good to get started if you want to keep shooting. Is there a shortage of components in The Great White North too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dondiego View Post
    Still, good to get started if you want to keep shooting. Is there a shortage of components in The Great White North too?
    There isn’t so much a shortage as a price increase on what’s available. However our prices are half what I’m reading you guys are paying. A brick of pistol primer is $60 and that’s $15 more then they should be going for. I used to buy the Federal 210m (match) for $50 but they are now $89.

  6. #326
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    I started casting a long while ago, bout 67, could be earlier, ah, was, like 63, I was casting for a muzzle loader. But I did not start casting for real accuracy until I decided to compete in matches with my cast against folks shooting jacketed bullets in 82. I figured I needed some pretty good accuracy so started studying on the how, and asking people that had been doing the deed for decades. If you listen close, most folks will tell you true, how to cast hard enough, accurate enough, powder coat, and shoot 1/2 inch groups at 100 with a gun that will take rams to 500 and still shoot chickens at 500 for a shoot off. So if you want accuracy at distance, ask a long distance cast competitor about distance shooting.
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    Not sure how many times I posted to this thread but now I get to add another year. Now at 70.
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    Started on my Grandfather's knee at age 5 in 1963 with a Coleman stove as heat source. Now I am 62. Lost all my Grandfathers stuff (reloading, guns, bullets, powder etc) in a fire that destroyed his house in 1979. After roaming the western states working in the Semiconductor Industry I am now retired and gone full circle back on the same site (with a new house) doing what I learned as a kid. One rifle was saved because it was in my possession at the time of the fire, a Pre 64 Model 70 Winchester 220 Swift.
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  9. #329
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    57 years old and started this year.

  10. #330
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    Started "helping" my Father too young to remember exactly. He let me try the dipper (such as it was) at age 7 or 8. Still going strong at 64.
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  11. #331
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    Quote Originally Posted by Butler Ford View Post
    I started casting late in life, was late 40'-early 50's, needed a lot of lead bullets for cowboy action shooting. Found that I enjoyed casting and loading more than the cowboy action so am still at it @ 64.

    BF
    LoL! Almost verbatim my experience, although my Cowboy club folded up because of insurance costs and I'll be 78 in three weeks. I still have several hundred pounds of pure Pb and Lino', so I don't expect to quit any time soon.

    Peace to ya' Mr. Ford.

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    86 yo REDNECK Grinding boolit cherries, redneck boolit mold, redneck one stroke gas check tool,, redneck swage tool, redneck push through sizing dies, .360,.359,.358,.357, .3565 sizes. All because of the shortage. I hear some of you guys/gals complaining about some insignificant thing wrong with something you purchased and it leads me to think about all the little/big mistakes that I have made to finally get something usable in DIY projects. LOL

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    The poll is six years old so unless we can all change our votes, the information is invalid.

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    turning 56 in 5 days

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    I was very surprised to see that the most peaked at age 65 and then became decreased. I would expect more people would be casting after retirement age then that.

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    If this poll were to start today, I would have to move two clicks towards the top.
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    I started casting bullets when I was 13. Now days I'm 70. Just cast-up 200 6.5 150 grain round nose bullets yesterday.

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    When this thread started, I was 6 years younger.
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  19. #339
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    70 now and been casting since I was 20.

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    Halfway to 134 at present.

    Casting since halfway to 34.

    Noah

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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