Does anyone here do their own casting? Would anyone like to post or pm me the basics?

I do remember reading a few posts on the topic or the thread drifted to the topic so you should have someone along to post up some information for you.

 

Either way, any chance we can keep the responses in the thread and not by PM being more people will be able to learn from the discussion if done here.

 

Harry

basics you need a mold for what ever cal you will be making . make sure you read the directions that come with the mold as they say to smoke the mold . basicly hold a candle under it and smoke the casting porton of the mold this helps the bullets from sticking,than you need to melt the lead a melting pot works well for this.a bottom pour pot will speed things up a bit. also while the lead is getting to temp you need to heat the mold you can do this by putting the mold on top of the pot to heat it up . when everything is hot fill your mold and out comes the bullets . i have lee molds and melting pot they work ok for me . hope this helps Bob

The MOST important aspect of casting bullets is to do it SAFELY!

 

>Well ventilated area

>Eye protection

 

Read-up on the subject first.

 

Not sure how much money you can save doing this, considering the number of commercial casters out there. If you are doing it because you think it would be fun and/or interesting, then have at it. Nice complement to reloading. Consider 4-cavity molds, they speed things up considerably. If you find a bullet style that really works well, buy two molds - one can be cooling while you are filling the other - really, really speeds things up.

 

Good luck.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Ok, let me "reset" the baseline of "basics"

 

I know this already:

Do it safely

eye, breathing protection

don't do it in the kitchen - outdoors is preferred

Heat the mold

smoke the mold

6 bullet molds cast quicker but may be harder to keep at proper temp

 

 

This is what i need some help with:

 

A good starter melting pot (brand and model)

alloying for proper hardness

preferred bullet types

 

 

I've read some talk and some guys were commenting on another guy smacking the sprue plate aside and were saying he was doing it wrong but did not describe the proper operation

 

 

I really understand that with anything "proper method" can be subjective depending upon how precise the person doing the work prefers to be.

As they say: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask...

 

http://www.riflemagazine.com/magazine/PDF/hl257partial.pdf

 

Scroll through to find the article.

As they say: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask...

 

http://www.riflemagazine.com/magazine/PDF/hl257partial.pdf

 

Scroll through to find the article.

 

Excellent!

I cast for everything I shoot (rifles and shotguns included)

You can PM me with any questions.

You can check out the Cast Boolits website. They are the authority on cast boolits.

I cast for everything I shoot (rifles and shotguns included)

You can PM me with any questions.

You can check out the Cast Boolits website. They are the authority on cast boolits.

 

 

Why do you guys always say boolits? AAARRRGH! lol

Why do you guys always say boolits? AAARRRGH! lol

 

Cause it's the name of the website??

 

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/

Why do you guys always say boolits? AAARRRGH! lol

To quote the site

 

Boolits= as God laid it into the soil,,grand old Galena,the Silver Stream graciously hand poured into molds for our consumption.

 

 

Bullets= Machine made utilizing Full Length Gas Checks as to provide projectiles for the masses.

 

 

Boolits are hand made

Bullets are made in some factory by machines.