Alright how many of you are avid pourersAttachment 200719 mines mainly fishing, but i also do bullets. Mainly black powder. Much rather prefer jacketed for reloading handgun or rifle.
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Alright how many of you are avid pourersAttachment 200719 mines mainly fishing, but i also do bullets. Mainly black powder. Much rather prefer jacketed for reloading handgun or rifle.
Something I'd like to get into. Any need for ventilating during the melting process? I know someone who casts his own and he was concerned about bain dramage so he hooked up some sort of hood and fan that exhausted to the outside.
ChrisL
Used to cast lots of wadcutters and Fishing wgts out of wheel wgts and Linotype metel
YES you need ventilation and beeswax to clarify the lead.
I've used candle wax for years with better results. Ive got bullets that i poured 8-10 years ago that look as to been poured last night. Lead fumes are dense and will sink quickly compared to the contaminants burning off the Lead which could be paint adhesion use grease oil all kinds of things that's where your problem lies but the main reason for LED poisoning is handling the raw product you should always wear gloves the molten metal is roughly 700 to 800 degrees a little splatter burns like hell add water and it will explode and you'll be covered with it. Melt all dirty lead outside. And never melt battery LED the fumes are poisonous
Used to cast some bullets for a 54 Hawken percussion rifle but just bought 38 wadcutters for reloading. Most finicky pistol I had to load the wadcutters for was a Model 52 S&W with BoMar rib. The cartridges had to be just right to load consistently into the breach from the mag. If you broke your wrist just slightly on firing you got a stovepipe jam on ejection every time. Revolvers were much more forgiving unless the cylinder timing was out.
Bob
Wadcutters with gas checks may have helped. If they were mag or +pQuote:
Originally Posted by BobH
I am a leadhead too! I just buy em up and shoot 'em! :)
Seriously, those who load and reload and esp those who neck and customize ammo are some fiends. :tu
Must be fun and rewarding!
As long as i dont get burned. Very cautious got to pay attention. Like using a str8[emoji16]Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I cast my own round balls for the flint lock and for my sinkers when cat fishing. I use to use lead when I was in the plumbing business and id cast iron drains. does that make to old.
I used to cast years ago for 44cal handgun. I'm an Elmer Keith fan. I've got all the stuff to cast, even got some lead and some wheelweights, linotype too. One of these days I will do it. I remember doing boolets years ago. Once you start you have to keep going and it is hard work. Worth the effort though. If I ever get back to it I'll update. I have everything I need except the motivation. :gaah:
Typo on the model now corrected, sorry. S&W Model 52 38 special target semi auto. I think +p loads behind a full wadcutter would have damaged the pistol. Mag would only accept full wadcutter loads.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Bob
You can still put gas checks on target loads. Helps sometimes. It did for my father and I when we were loading 158 gr. 357 mag. Keeps from shoving the bullet out the barrel before the rifleing took hold. What a pain cleaning the lead fouling. Now its my brother and I and its all FMJHP for the hand guns and ballistic tip for rifles ( varmints) coyotes. Ground hogs
There really is no problem in not using gas checks on the blunt nosed 148 gr. wadcutters in a national match pistol with target loads. You can't use 158gr wadcutters in that gun, they won't fit in the mag. They are not high velocity rounds and the lead skirt seals the base well enough to clover leaf or better the rounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
It was finicky loading because you are basically trying to get the equivalent of an empty 38 special case to feed and chamber from the mag. Then you need just enough power, about 2.7/2.9 grains of Bullseye powder, to work the action with a heavy BoMar rib sight added so if you even broke your wrist slightly during firing you would get a stove pipe jam on ejection. That jam could cost you a match in timed or rapid fire events. Totally a different beast than using full house loads in a defense gun or varmint rifles.
Bob
I'd really like to see those type of matches done with full loads. But its fun to watch you guys in rapid fire matches. Its a trip
If you want to shoot full loads IPSC shooting is what you are after. Two very different types of shooting with different priorities. At least that was the case case 30 years ago when I was shooting match pistols. Both are enjoyable depending what you want to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Bob
Got enough hobbies. That one is definitely expensive. I'll stick with watching ground hogs disintegrate at 250 yrds. We call it dressed, quartered and cooked😏
