26 pounds of 358156, a noe clone, and 14 pounds of the lee copy of hg68.
26 pounds of 358156, a noe clone, and 14 pounds of the lee copy of hg68.
When you care enough to send the very best, send an ounce of lead.
Well... its 97 right now. But first light it was only 75 I was up and plugged the pot in. As I finished my coffee it was warmed up and ready. By 8:15 it was too hot and I needed a new T shirt.
But I almost finished the pot... Cast a 6 gang LEE Ranch Dog 300g 454.
CW
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I cast about 20 pounds of LBT 280 grain .411 WLN, about 10 pounds of LBT 265 grain .411 WLNGC and about 5 pounds of LBT .357 200 grain FNGC. All from 50/50 Range scrap and linotype.
Only left handed guns are interesting!
Nothing today! Not even anything as of late. I do most of my casting near the end of the winter and early spring to avoid the hot weather. I usually have a buddy or two over when I cast and a few of them are already asking, so it won't be long!
Me and a buddy are also making plans for a smelting day, some time after New Years.
Not today but 2 days ago I dropped around 350 samples from an Ideal .25 caliber Perfection mold. Below the nose we have one driving band, a loob groove, and one base band. With traditional rifle mold sizes these dropped at .259 diameter so I sized them at .252" in a re-purposed (drilled & polished) .244 sizing die. After sizing they weigh 44 grains. The loob groove is so shallow I have decided to apply Lee liquid alox and stuff these into .25 acp brass. Sorry, no photos, I'm too old school to know how to do that.
I just done around 2700 9 mm out of a Accurate 35-130-c 5 cav, this mold really makes it rain bullets and about 1200 .45 ACP from an 5 cav NEI H&G 204 gr bullet.
All of these got 2 coats of Hi-Tek, so I have a good start on this years shooting.
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Today I set up a make shift casting station in the garage until I can clear the rickety bench in there that was left by the previous owners. I cast up 200 RCBS 270-150's, around 600 358-147 Elco's, and 500 227-75 Nato boolits. It was 65 degrees here in STL today.
90 gr .358’s & 118 gr rnfp .358’s for SASS
3,243 boolits now to PC and size
45 Carabine, 275grs, 6cav aluminium, .452 MP Molds
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A couple hundred Lee 356-125 RF. What a nice all around .38/9mm boolit!!
Loaded over a start charge of #7, its quite a little thumper in 9mm.
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Last edited by Boolseye; 04-16-2020 at 12:34 PM.
Powder coating a 20 lb tub of .45 hardball, lubrisizing about 400 Lyman .38 wadcutters.
Due to health reasons, I haven't been doing much relative to casting and reloading. This week I broke that "fast". I decided to load some .38 Specials on my Dillon 550B. My Dillon has been idle for months and the primer feed was a bit erratic. That is NOT common to the 550B. I took the primer set up off the press and it was gunked up. I cleaned it and dry-lubed it and it IMMEDIATELY started working perfectly. Just needed a bit of "tender, loving care". I ran several hundred full charge wadcutters (original H&G four cavity iron mold for the H&G #50 wadcutter). Then, I decided to start working on getting my bench back to "ship shape". I found a couple of bags of empty .38 Special cases that needed sorting. I sorted them, packaged them, and "one less thing in the way".
I cannot begin to tell you how that lifted my spirits. Life has become really boring with the C-virus "lock down" and doing something really positive gave me a natural high! Here I sit with a smile on my face! I plan to continue until my shop is all straight again. It'll probably take me a couple of weeks!
FWIW
Dale53
Good to hear Dale53. May it continue for you.
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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 |