Can you top this?

[runfiverun]

thought you read the book, it has pictures too.
wow.....

[rufracer]

I did that exact same thing except I only had one glove on, and it only took me about 200 boolits before I figured something was amiss.

[Southern Son]

Crash, that has to be one of the funniest things I have read, so I read it to my missus and she said it sounded like something I would have done, except I would not have had enough sense to by the mould with the handles on.

[Char-Gar]

About the time you think you have read and heard everything, along comes a post like this!

[Shotgun Luckey]

Doing it for 2 years like that, and you are still doing it....I think you have the fever....and bad

[Big Tom]

LOL - that was a great post!! Actually, it was the second post I read on the site and it makes me really feel comfortable here - no not that way, my molds came with handles and I was using them But the set up sounds very similar to what I started with today.

Tom

[Charlie Sometimes]

This reminded me of that ol' bluegrass song where the fella looking for a job got one driving a truck, but had never done it..... found reverse and backed that truck all the way to his destination! Told everyone that he just got tired of going forward!!
LOL- you are a VERY dedicated boolit caster! The lead is defintiely in your veins.

I LOVE this site! There is so much KNOWLEDGE and FUN floating around here that I'll never be able to skim all the clips off the melt!

[Edubya]

Crash, many compliments on your story. I don't care if one word of it is true, it is very funny and you do have a skill in the story telling. I enjoyed your replies as well as the original.
Thanks,
EW

[Brick85]

Wow, this makes me feel very lucky that I've started into this while the Internet is around. I actually thought moulds always came with handles (I'd looked into Lee moulds, mainly) until I saw some Saeco stuff.

I guess the stories about walking uphill both ways with no shoes and no feet really do have some truth to them, us kids have it so easy nowadays. . .

Reminds me of my friend's father's setup. He had a 6-cavity .357 mould mounted on two boards that he would screw together, or so it appeared. This was with a stash of several thousand bullets, so obviously he used it plenty well.

[labdwakin]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! I belly laughed for 20 mins when I read this. Very very well-written sir!

[Ron.D]

That's a great story. Probably a few more around, if only you guys would fess up, lol. When I started shooting and handloading, it was back in the 70's. When there's no gun club, and you don't know anyone that reloads, it's a long shallow learning curve. It took me 2 yrs. to find out what dacron was. I had to finally call Dupont, where it was made, and only after getting in touch with a chemist old enough to remember the stuff, was it finally confirmed as polyester fiberfill. I wish Lyman had changed the name when the rest of the world did.
I don't post much. Mostly keep my eyes and ears open. This site is extremely valuable to those of us that don't have access to a bunch of guys who learned from a bunch of guys etc. Great story, great site. Ron.D

[Hammer]

I absolutely love this website. I have been using computers and the internet since they first appeared on desk tops.... (We got some of the first "secure" desktop computes distributed in the Air Force). I have NEVER enjoyed any facet of this amazing tool as much as I have with this forum. It is stories and experiences like this that have returned laughter and enjoyment to this experience. Thanks for sharing and we all learn form each other... God Bless and be careful.

[johnlaw484]

[QUOTE=Buckshot;436587]..................Gee Crash, casting like that must have been about like driving a truck with a 318 Detroit Diesel. For it to work like it's supposed to you need to drive it completely pissed off. So if you see a truck driver slam his fingers in the cab door, then open it and get in screaming and yelling, you know he has a 318 under the hood

..............Buckshot[/QUOT

318, man that's high tech. I ran a 671/238 for years. I have to admit that was the only truck I ever made any money with. It had a RTO 9510 with 9th and 10th reversed. I was capable of 9 miles a gallon but top end was about 60 mph (down hill)

[wiersy111]

When I first started casting a couple months ago all I could afford was the molds and not the handles right away. I had read this post giggling the whole time. Since I am not a patient person when I have a new toy I figured if Crash could do it for 2 years I could handle it until I could afford handles. My first couple of sessions didn't last to long, so I figures I would move up in the world and buy some welding gloves that helped a lot but production just wasn't up to full potential. Pouring big 535gr .458 boolits with a spoon and welding gloves was quite an experience. It didn't take long to squirrel away a few bucks to buy some handles no matter what mama said. Needless to say production has increased greatly since the addition of handles.

[Greenhorn44]

I Did the same darn thing. The box should say. Handles not Included

[Crash_Corrigan]

I was guilty of similiar sins regarding single actions until I started to do some serious reading on the care and feeding of single action revolvers.

I presently have three Ruger Bh's. Two Old Models and one New Model. I much prefer the old model. Better trigger and smaller frame than the New Model.

I load all of them with only five rounds. It is a habit. Now if I only could develop some better loading habits it might save me some grief.

[Southron Sanders]

In 1961 I was in High School and ordered one of those new fangled, replica Zouave Rifles from some company out in California. I went to order a mould, percussion caps and black powder from the local hardware store in Metter, GA.

As luck would have it, the local hardware store stocked a goodly supply of DuPont FFFg black powder because FARMERS USED BLACK POWDER TO WORM THEIR HAWGS!

So all they had to do was order me a mould and some musket caps.

Well, I also purchased a 25 pound bar of "Plumbers Lead" from the hardware store and also a cast iron plumbers lead pot/ When my mould came in, I was ready to cast.

What the man at the hardware store told me to do was:

(1) Heat the mould
(2) Melt the lead and pour it into the mould.
(3) Wait until the mould cooled before removing the cast minie ball!

I tried that method and found it was a very slow way to cast bullets, so next I tried to drop the bullet out about ten seconds after the sprue cooled. That method worked much better.

The post above about the BC requiring white gloves for inspection for M-60 crew members; that reminded me:

IN 1963 I was shipped off to a BRUTAL Southern military school. Spent three years at that school and then when I saw the movie "Full Metal Jacket" I kept wondering WHY the Platoon Sergeant took it so easy on the privates. Compared to what I experienced my first year at GMC, those trainees were pampered by R. Lee Ermy.

[John Ross]

This reminds me of the fellow who told me he wanted to buy a saw to cut some cordwood for sale. I sold him an old Stihl at a good price. It was in good shape and surplus to my needs.

I saw him a few months later and he allowed that he was hardly making any money at all, the saw didn't cut wood nearly as fast as he had hoped. I said maybe it needed sharpening. He went to his truck and got it.

I looked at the teeth and they looked fine. So I walked over to my firewood stack and pushed one of the unsplit pieces off the top--an oak section about 15" in diameter. Then I primed the carb and gave the recoil starter a yank. As I blipped the throttle and was adjusting the mixture for best power, I noticed the guy's eyes were big as saucers. He opened his mouth and screamed at me over the din:

"WHAT'S THAT NOISE?!"

JR

PS: Look at the bright side--It was an aluminum Lee 6-cavity. What if it had been an H&G iron 10-cavity?

[Sonnypie]

... but Crash is probably the reason Lee 6 cavities come with only the sprue cutter handle and no mold handles.
Gives you choices....

No handles.

Or to add handles.

Ida probably melted the handles offen my Channel Locks...

[JDFuchs]

Oh wow. I might have ended my casting career right there after seeing how it was to hot to handle.

But I've had my fair share of lacking of common knowledge moments. Most were with reloading in general since i found castboolits a few months before I ever got a lead pot.

My biggest one was when I was buying reloading supplies for the very first time. No one was there to teach me a thing about it I read the lyman manual cover to cover and had little else to go off of. I was in the store looking at the jacketed bullets to buy and was freaking out that I could not find the exact thing that was in the manual. So after a few moments a gentleman picking up supplies enlightened me to the fact that sticking to the same weight is the key to reloading data and I was safe with starting loads for bullets of the same general stile. I've thankfully come a long way since then but wow..


I would love to try and hunt. But no one that im close to ever has. I have my hunters ed down but beyond that I know I would only wind up walking around in circles all day having no clue what to do. let alone if i managed to take an animal.