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Oct 28 2017 Cast Bullet Seminar Sign Up Thread
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Hard stamp those so you don't mix them up. I won't say pewter makes bad bullets but they tend to be a waste of tin.
I won't tell you I did this BUT I knew a guy who was going nuts trying to figure out why his zero was off. Then to find out your 200 grain slug only weighs 135 grains!
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
Ohhhh shiny!
I have another batch of lead for 2018 seminar if needed.
If you don't need it for the seminar directly I will off some up in a karma to those attending?
I have: unsorted wheel weights
Some ignots and assorted pieces.
I might even throw in some tin
anyone have a mold that drops a .268-.270 130-150 grains?
If you don't need it for the seminar directly I will off some up in a karma to those attending?
I have: unsorted wheel weights
Some ignots and assorted pieces.
I might even throw in some tin
anyone have a mold that drops a .268-.270 130-150 grains?
I'm in100% I have not a problem hosting again just say when and the advanced course idea sounds great covering cast reloading paerpatching , coatings,mold and die modifications there's alot of cool info that could be shared.
Kinda funny this just got revisited yesterday because I went ahead and started the learning process by myself since I kept missing the damn seminars (one time due to scheduling and the other time due to my own stupidity of not realizing it was supposed to be on a SATURDAY and not the Sunday like I originally had in my head for some reason).
Anyway...This past Friday evening I smelted a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weighs I had sorted for the seminar last year and came out with 50 muffin pan ingots of unknown hardness/mass. The metal FEELS ok/somewhere in the wheelhouse of where I need to be for bullets, so I went ahead and decided to put my mold to the test yesterday and started casting some 9mm projectiles. I feel like I might have screwed up my mold because there's little chunks of material that I can't seem to get out of the mating surface of the two halves, but the bullets themselves still seem ok? Once I got the mold warm enough and got a rhythm going it actually went fairly quickly.
I KNOW there is some stuff that I'm missing that is probably really important...but I just couldn't wait any longer
Anyway...This past Friday evening I smelted a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weighs I had sorted for the seminar last year and came out with 50 muffin pan ingots of unknown hardness/mass. The metal FEELS ok/somewhere in the wheelhouse of where I need to be for bullets, so I went ahead and decided to put my mold to the test yesterday and started casting some 9mm projectiles. I feel like I might have screwed up my mold because there's little chunks of material that I can't seem to get out of the mating surface of the two halves, but the bullets themselves still seem ok? Once I got the mold warm enough and got a rhythm going it actually went fairly quickly.
I KNOW there is some stuff that I'm missing that is probably really important...but I just couldn't wait any longer
Not bad at all.Kinda funny this just got revisited yesterday because I went ahead and started the learning process by myself since I kept missing the damn seminars (one time due to scheduling and the other time due to my own stupidity of not realizing it was supposed to be on a SATURDAY and not the Sunday like I originally had in my head for some reason).
Anyway...This past Friday evening I smelted a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weighs I had sorted for the seminar last year and came out with 50 muffin pan ingots of unknown hardness/mass. The metal FEELS ok/somewhere in the wheelhouse of where I need to be for bullets, so I went ahead and decided to put my mold to the test yesterday and started casting some 9mm projectiles. I feel like I might have screwed up my mold because there's little chunks of material that I can't seem to get out of the mating surface of the two halves, but the bullets themselves still seem ok? Once I got the mold warm enough and got a rhythm going it actually went fairly quickly.
I KNOW there is some stuff that I'm missing that is probably really important...but I just couldn't wait any longer
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Wheel weight lead should be plenty good enough for 9mm
Sized to match your bore/leadlead/throat and you will be fine.
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
what a score. leave some for the rest of us HAHAHA
