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50 degrees this morning. Good morning to cast bullets.


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I normally cast in the in the winter but this morning looked to be ideal for firing up the Lee pot. As it was starting to melt,  I did an inventory of by bullet stash. I was still plenty good on my 44 and 45 but nearly out of 401 for my 38WCF. I didn't cast very long but made a sizable pile before the recliner started to call out to me.  

 

I normally just size these bullets and shoot them "necked" in front of BlackMZ.   But I bought a 401 die for my old Lyman 450 lube-sizer.  I may start shooting real black.

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11 hours ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

I just did ~2550 .38-40's Saturday - Accurate Molds 40-160C, weighing in around 163 grains with my Heinz 57 mystery alloy. :)

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So nearly 1300 pours with a 2- cavity mold?  I bow humbly in your direction.  My arthritic hands guve out after about 100 pours with a 6- cavity mold.

 

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2 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:


So nearly 1300 pours with a 2- cavity mold?  I bow humbly in your direction.  My arthritic hands guve out after about 100 pours with a 6- cavity mold.

 

:o

 

Back when I was young and in my prime, I'd cast outside with an iron Lyman two cavity mold using an iron pot and dipper over a wood fire. In the winter inside on the kitchen stove.  Then when we got more affluent,  I used a Coleman camp stove but still iron molds,pot and dipper. 

 

Boy do I appreciate the Lee 6 cavity molds!  And Lee production pot. I know. Not the best available but sure beats setting on a block of firewood leaning over a woodfire in the summer time.

 

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I still melt my range lead over a wood fire to reduce it to ingots.  Once a year but I can put it on and go away and come back to tend to it.  

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