Hi guys today I cast some wad cutter bullets.
I pulled my toolbox away from the wall then set up my casting equipment under the bright LED lights mounted on the wall. I fired up the lead furnace turkey fryer and in 20 minutes I had 25 pounds of 750 °F molten lead.
Then I lower the flame and start warming up the mold blocks. This is a brand new to me mold. I had just opened it from the postal box that arrived in today. Unwrapped it, mounted it on Lee handles wiped it down with a clean rag and then I plunge the mold into the fires of the Furnace. I count to 30 then bring it out and wipe it down with an oil soaked cotton rag and it doesn't smoke so I put it back into the fire and count again. On the third time it was almost perfect and so I started casting bullets. The mold temperature is correct when the oily cotton rag smokes when you wipe down the blocks.
I pick up the ladle and fill the blocks starting closest to the hinge pivot and pour moving outwards and fill all eight cavities. I watched the sprue and when it takes a couple seconds to freeze and I know the timer is starting and when it changes color to a dull lifeless Gray then I open the sprue lever and dumped the sprue into the catch bucket on the left side under the furnace.
To my right I position the mold over a small cardboard box with a clean cotton rag draped across it. I open the mold blocks and all eight bullets fall out. I closed the blocks, reposition the mold near the casting pot, and fill all eight cavities again.
I just kept making more and more bullets.
Now I'm sizing them with the Lee hand press
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