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awesome. thanks man. i need to get an inspection sticker tomorrow. i figure i'll hit a place that changes tires too. i can stand around and shoot the $hit untill i weasel some ww out of someone
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Make sure you weasel some for us too please.i can stand around and shoot the $hit untill i weasel some ww out of someone
don't worry if i find a source i'll let you know.
i do have a few pounds of lead shot i used to use for my black powder smooth bore .56 cal
would this be good to melt down and cast?
I'll be bringing my .533 410 gr. Minnie Bullet mold and a 300 gr. R-E-A-L bullet mold. Both are .54. I suspect the 410 gr. one will be great for deer hunting. Suppose to use pure lead in the minnie mold and all I've got is ingots made from WW that Fixxer gave me.
i figured the shot would be soft, but we could use that and alloy it right? or is that not worth it?
i did have a .56 renegade from thompson center. but i gave it to a friend that really wanted to get in to archery or black powder so he could hunt for deer longer. and he loves hunting and eating squirrels, so i figured this would be right up his alley.
now i'm down to my .50 cal hawkens.
i'll probably cast some round balls for the hell of it. they're very hard to find down here in .56 i'm sure he would like to have a few extra.
They will. I cant' wait.Hope most people bring cameras so they can post pictures of the days events.
I can bring more sausages if people want, I think that and the chicken were all the food to begin with. How many and do people wan't rolls. Happy to do it if everyone throws in $2 at Shirley. I will pickup tomorrow so people need to speakup now.
Zombie has to back out. Pressing legal matters will have him stuck in some cramped musty office for the day. He was going to bring his famous chicken parm sandwich materials. Can whomever was going to bring food just bring a bit more of it, so there's enough?????
The hours are clicking by fast.
Just a reminder for everyone attending. Bob_J and I will bring smelting and production pots, along with molds and various other machines, devices, and tools. Unless you are specifically already scheduled to do otherwise, just bring your lead. We don't want to be trying to process five smelters, six production pots, etc, etc, etc. Everyone will have a hand at running raw materials, molds, etc from the couple of set ups that we will have on hand. We want to keep it simple and manageable.
Bob, not sure how much range lead (in raw form) we have access to, so I will bring a few ingots of pure lead which I smelted from range lead a few weeks ago. It's really nice stuff, showing the lead crystals in the ingot.
I'll be bringing:
- Propane tank
- Burner stand
- Cast iron dutch oven
- fluxing materials
- thermometer
- all the tools for smelting, including extra gloves
- my 20 # of wheel weights, and a two pound package of range lead (in raw form)
- a couple o ingots of pure lead from range lead
- my RCBS Pro production pot
- various molds
- Lyman 4500 Lubricizer, with some of the sizing dies.
- Clamps to hold everything down (cause I'm too cheap to buy those neat metal plates that you use)
- Couple of power cords (not sure how close to power we'll be)
- Some of my Odie Lube
- White label Xlox
- my new FreeChex III press, with checks samples
- My swage tool for swaging the 9mm bullets and cores into .40 S&W bullets
- LOTS of handouts (reading materials)
- Some Mauser brass I promised Mark
I'll add to the list as I start assembling stuff to loading into the car.
I'm car pooling with Stuart from Weaponcraft Training and CurleyMaple. Ruger_Bob also said that he wanted to come along if he wasn't working. I have PM'd him to find out what's up.
If there are any last minute requests, let me know.
Does anyone have any of those NAME TAG things that they can borrow from work?
I can bring more sausages if people want, I think that and the chicken were all the food to begin with. How many and do people wan't rolls. Happy to do it if everyone throws in $2 at Shirley. I will pickup tomorrow so people need to speakup now.
Hi Duke,
Was planning on bringing 3 smelting setups but based on your input below will only bring one......
Will also bring the Cabinetree and Lee hardness testers so everyone can get a look at those....
Am planning on bring 3 casting pots (Lee 4-20) and the star sizer (with a fair selection of dies).... The casting pots are currently set up for dead soft, straight WW (rifle and magnum) and 50/50 range lead/WW for everything else....
Will also bring a number of moulds so everyone can (hopefully) work with boolits that they plan to shoot....
Jasper graciously donated (thanks and much appreciated) a half bucket of range lead so will bring the stuff to demonstrate how to process that efficiently....
Am hoping a new mould I ordered comes in before the weekend so I can demonstrate how to prep a mould... if not, I can talk it through....
Can also bring the stuff for and cover slugging a barrel if anyone would like to see it demonstrated...
Will also bring your firelap rounds.....
That's all I can think of but will add stuff if you can think of anything else we need let me know....
As for support, will need power for the star heater/casting pots and a bench that I can bolt the mounting bracket to for the star.....
Really looking forward to this.....
Sounds good.
I'm hoping that we have several tables to mount stuff on.
EC, can you give us a sense for table situation???? And, some sense for electrical hookups?
Not sure of the layout of the club.
Bring your 30 carbine and we will slug it for you so we can be sure to size the bullet for the best performance....
just bring your lead.
Just making sure its still ok to bring the .30 M1 Carbine for 'slugging"...
Just making sure its still ok to bring the .30 M1 Carbine for 'slugging"...
I am still planning on attending, but my source for wheel weights just copped out. HELP! If anyone has extra wheel weights I will gladly purchase it from you. Thanks.
No worries. We'll be able to come up with anything we need. We have plenty of tables and electrical won't be a problem (bring some power strips though).
I would like to join you (especially since it is only three miles from my home. I'm not 100% sure I can make it and a couple of months ago I gave away all my lead. I will try to scrounge some more, however.