First time casting

[Rexican]

I went back home for thanksgiving and finally got to start casting on my own. After a few burns several hours I started churning out some pretty decent bullets. I made some 50/50 lynotype and wheel weight .311 diameter 130gr spire points (If you read this, Robocop I'll be happy to send several hundred your way), 165 grain .30 cals, 9's, 38's and 170 grain .40's. I still need to size and lube them, but I'll probably wait till around christmas to do that. Unfortunately that means I'll have to stare at them for two weeks and just think about loading them.

[wonderwolf]

erm, um, yeah....lol 3rd picture is nice :kookaid:

Glad to hear your having fun casting boolits. soon you'll be knee deep in projectiles and you'll be buying lots more things to shoot them out of. a place you might want to check out if you have not already is castboolits.gunloads.com

great place to learn about the silver stream. Watch yourself...or you may find out just how cheaply you can make boolits and you'll start shooting more :rockon:

[robocop10mm]

Now that is one WELL USED RCBS furnace. I have two and they are 15 years old and they still have all their paint. Yes, you will find this adds a whole new dimension to your addiction. I find my self shooting just to get brass to load. I worked up a load for the 7.62 X 39 using a 150gr RNGC sized to .310 that works well in my AK and SKS so I guess I'll pass. I don't feel like working up ANOTHER load. I just spent the last month or so woking up new loads for cast bullets in .223 and .30-06. I found a good accurate load (that actually cycles the action on an AR) using a .224 57gr RNGC but failed to find a load that will cycle my Rem 7400 in .30-06. I did find a very good, accurate load for the Remmy (1 MOA) but it will not cycle the action.

Thanks anyway, Rex.

[kevin]

where did you get all the wheel weights? none of the tire shops i have been to would even consider selling them to me

[wonderwolf]

In larger cities like columbus somebody else has a monopoly on the wheel weights, Duralast batter or somebody buys them all up. and I think there are restrictions of their sale to regular joes here or something like that? Back home I never had trouble getting wheel weights from a auto shop.

[turbothis]

now that looks fun!

i cant have loading equipment or they say i have to have a ammunition license.....

[Allwater]

Quite the enterprise Rexican - looking good!

Man, it's getting harder to find good help these days...

We're having morale issues at the shop also - hahaha

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now that looks fun!

i cant have loading equipment or they say i have to have a ammunition license.....

TURBO - I'm curious - is that the fed (because of your FFL) or state of OR? Is that fairly new restriction (less than 10-15 years)?

[Rexican]

The guy giving the dual fingers in the pic is a forum member here as well. He works driving parts all day to different auto shops in austin, so he left a couple 5gallon buckets at each place. he got 137lbs after 2 weeks from one shop alone, more than half usable. It's free, and I don't have to dip in to the half ton or so dad has stocked up in the garage.

The lynotype we picked up years ago for cheap, so everything we loaded was essentially free. I keep wondering what people would say if I brought the furnace to my apartment, set it on my tailgate and started casting in the parking lot.

No more purchases lined up so far: if anything I need to thin out the collection(or accumulation) a bit and pick up some primers and chisel off some of those items that have been on my reloading wishlist for too long.

Yep, Robocop, that furnace has seen better days... I scraped all the paint off of with a razor blade after we finished up. I'm going to sand it down and repaint with some high temp engine paint. Let me know if you change your mind, My SLR-95 has been neglected for far too long and I'm going to work up a load for it, and some for my TC with the 165 grainers.