I stay in my corner an play with my bullets
 

with all that is going on in the forum, I am glad I don't post a lot.

I got two more molds in yesterday,

45cal LEE REAL 250gr
50cal LEE real 250gr

it was like my birthday :s2:
that almost covers all the weights in the lee reals I want, cept for the 54cal 300gr?

god, I gotta wheel and deal for some soft lead now lol. may run out lol

54cal lee real this one came to 382gr it slip thru my first check, the battery on my scale died, sounds like how my day today

Corey, be careful casting too many bullets. Make sure you have good ventilaton. You don't want to be breathing those fumes. Very dangerous to your health.

I have two window fans, one blowing in, one blowing, out, casting set up is in front almost in front of the out bound air.

Belated Happy Birthday oldman!!!!! You do nice work. I can appreciate molding your own. Soon I will look for a setup to do that as well..

Corey, I have shot a lot of the 250 REALs in the past. They will shoot great in any rifle that shoots RBs good. I had mixed results with them in 1x28 rifled guns.


Screwbolts.

Corey if that is one of those Harbor Freight scales, they do eat batteries fast. Mine are dead all the time and i use good 2500NMH batterries in mine. I still end up charging them nearly every time i want to use it.

BTW nice Job. Seeing all this casting makes me want to get the Lyman 458? 330gr HP mold aka Gould for my 45s? I still haven't found a 54cal mold i really like though but that REAL looks close. Ive got some 390gr Maxis that are a tad harder than pure lead that are pretty good but can be a tad hard to start.

Corey, you make some very nice bullets.

this are all that I make,

I told you casting was addictive?? Andit looks like you got it bad!!:love:

Lead fumes are not real bad. Actually lead does not fume at all. What you smell are the impurites that are separating from your lead. Personally I put a fan down wind of my pot and draw the air across the pot. That way you are drawing any impurities away from you. Mine is pointed out the side door of the garage.

What you need to be real careful with when working with lead is ingestion. Wash your hands and clothes immediately after casting. That is where you can pick up large amounts of lead into your system.

Obviously breathing any fumes is not good. But fumes is not where people get lead poisoning from(it comes from handling and ingesting). Yes the impurity fumes are also bad for you, but that is not lead. Good gloves are the most important thing you should always use. Tom.

Super Job Corey!!

just need an break in the weather, going to try to get out monday.

duh, just remembered they close the range for cleaning and maintenance on mondays :busted::nonono2::bash:

I really like those 459s. Looks like a potentially nice 45cal conical after the correct sizing die. Thats the tall middle one? I would like to find a slightly "pointier" maybe lighter one just for cheap target shooting. My Elite 45 really likes a 360gr and just 80grs.

planning on using as conical out of my 45cal, those suckers drop out at 412gr in wheel weight. have not done many in soft lead, I can't remember what the weight is,

the 45cal minie is close in design,

The mold that interests me the most is the Lyman 454122? i think. Its a 458ish 330gr hp. Seems like it would make a good multi purpose mold depending on sizing and hardness for 45s or larger calibers in a sabot. There is a very similar one without a hp 350gr too....I think its a LBT brand.

Corey-

a foolish question, perhaps-

Do you polish them, or do they come out of the mold that shiny?

I know nothing about casting...

pure lead to very soft lead no matter the heat come out shiny.

sorted range lead (made from jacked bullets) are mostly shiny with an small amount of frost in the lube grooves.

wheel weight lead lite satin finish when starting out once my lead getting to hot, frost looking. does not bother me.

that is how it works out for me

So, it's a matter of how hot the lead gets as well as the level of impurities in it, then.

Those maxis almost look to pretty to shoot.

I have an few lubed up and thinking about doing an short afternoon shoot. may not and do a little lead hunting.

wheel weights have tin and antimony in it, take less heat to melt and heat up to casting temp, I don't know what the chemical reaction is that makes it be an duller color.

of course, if my statement is wrong, or knows the answer, someone would come along to and correct me