This information is exactly what I have been looking for. I realize that this is an older thread but the info is brand new to me. Thank you! I will be researching this site thoroughly as I progress.
Greatly appreciated, WBG
This information is exactly what I have been looking for. I realize that this is an older thread but the info is brand new to me. Thank you! I will be researching this site thoroughly as I progress.
Greatly appreciated, WBG
Well, I'm hooked. Cast my first 30cal's today. After about the first 20 it went smoothly. Cast 600 or so nice bright 150 gr. that weighed 143 . Right on the money at .309. Now to size , install the GC and lube. I have about 300 lb of WW to melt but that can wait until I get outdoors.
Thank you goodsteel!
Gondwana
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Man-------- I'm glad I found this thread. Just good stuff here. Thanks Tim. May have helped me find a prob with a #5 roller in 44-40.
Roy
Hooker53
All this is good info but, at this point I don't powder load all my brass at one time as a habit. I still take the time to hand measure each load and seat the Boolit right then. I know this takes extra time but, I'm the type that would rather take the time on 50/100 cart then to rush through 500.
Roy
Hooker53
Well, I'm lost here. How do you put a full case of melted lead in the chamber, close the bolt on it, turn the gun over and administer the brass rod and keep the lead in the case melted all at the same time? How do you get the case of melted lead into the chamber unless you have a break action gun? and even then, I've noticed with my molds that lead stays hot a long time but melted not very long. I have not found a reason to try this but, can you fill a mold cavity with molten lead and try to get the lead out before it set's up. I doubt I can do that. Would be interesting to watch a video of this process.
You missed a step:
The lead filled brass casing is cooled and hard. This makes a solid "bullet holder" that won't allow the bullet to go anywhere while you're pounding on that bullet with a rod from the muzzle end. As you drive the pure lead bullet backwards into case, it is forced into the almost filled neck of the case and fills the rest of the space between the case mouth and the start of the rifling as well as getting smashed into the full width of the throat.In order to get a chamber slug, take a once fired piece of brass from your rifle, and fill it with molten lead to just below the case mouth. Cast a lead boolit of pure lead. Insert the lead boolit into your breech, followed by the lead filled casing.
Thanks for the OP, excellent info. It will be a while before I attempt to cast any 308's, but I have read this multiple times, and It sinks in a bit more each time, and I am reading up on some of the processes mentioned. Thanks again from a newbie!
Dave
thanks for sharing this knowledge
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Umm not sure what the heck happened in February apparently something very bad, but I feel like most of the information in this sticky is missing.
The bulk of the information in this sticky is gone. Should it still be a sticky?
Scrap.... because all the really pithy and emphatic four letter words were taken and we had to describe this source of casting material somehow so we added an "S" to what non casters and wives call what we collect.
Kind of hard to claim to love America while one is hating half the Americans that disagree with you. One nation indivisible requires work.
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I was a bit short with my last post. He was banned some time back and by choice stayed away for a while even though the ban had expired. He eventually returned and was posting until he received an infraction. A few days later he changed a bunch of his post to reflect the message below. Apparently he has determined we are not worthy of his knowledge. Such is life....
Robert
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Sounds like a 6 year old taking his ball and going home.
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