Purple people eaters

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When it's -3 but your new hollowpoint mold came early for Christmas

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Indoor Range Scrap Smelt

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Took a 30 cal family portrait this weekend

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This morning I found 174lbs of Lead wheel weight ingots on FB Marketplace for $25 ($0.14 per lb). It was $55 with the ammo cans ($10ea) and I gave him $60. Lead pencils $14 @ Hobby Lobby to test BHN.

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90 minutes of therapy this morning

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50 pounds of lead seems like a lot until you get it all stacked up.

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Got my lead supply organised after moving house

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I call these my Purple People Eaters

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First time casting lead ingots. Decided to do some hardness testing with my aire rifle. Left ingot is recovered air rifle pellets, middle is jacketed range scrap, and the right is cast range scrap.

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Random happenings: I was given 163 lb of lead ingots with 160 lb of lead WW after I struck up a random conversation with an old timer.

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Anyone know why my 9mm comes out perfect while the 45 come out with creases?

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Didn't cast any bullets this weekend but this was all wheel weights on Friday.

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510 pound of pure lead (all free!!!)

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Update in comments from powder coat experiment

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247 grain .40 s&w

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Big heavy pile

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Got Lead?

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Sorry Lee, You're Little Slug Just Didn't Satisfy Me

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What do I got??

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Bought a couple used pots, one of them still had led in it so I started casting last night. They are so hard I cannot indent them with my thumbnail. They also look extremely bright compared to a cast performance. Too hard?

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1st & only powder I’ve tried coating with (Eastwood copper vein) I like the way it looks but worry the pitted texture could be coating a little uneven & effect accuracy. Thoughts or suggestions on a smoother powder?

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Melting a bunch of wheel weights a friend gave me

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Powder coated .459” 500gr gas checked bullets for my 458 SOCOM. These are both Eastwood powders, blue metallic and red metallic.

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Lee 9mm Mould Seating Depth?

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22lr reloading project, 25gr & 38gr pure lead and powder coated projectiles for hardness testing

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300 Blackout Powder Coating

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The next step or how I paid $1000 to save $0.10

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Alloy vs alloy

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It is getting closer to bullet making season.

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New batch of 540gr postells from my pioneer mold

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New Lee 1oz Slug mold, New PC color...

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Rate my equipment! Anything else I need? (Large pot and Burner are outside)

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First loads with the Lee 377-250 mould, pretty happy with the results!

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Craters - are they ever acceptable? What issues do cause?

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Clean enough to slug? Or copper fouling?

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Finally got it after 6 months on backorder

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Eat your heart out Loverin

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My favorite flower

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I am now the guy who cleans out the indoor range catches

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My Lee BHN tester microscope stand

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Looks like they are getting ready for a Purge. Might want to get a Backup ready.

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So close to my first batch every. Am so excited! just need the tin.

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My custom mould finally arrived!! Going to cast soon!

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First time powder coating. Didn’t come out as well as I hoped, a lot of sticking, but I think most of them will be serviceable after a run through the sizer. What do you say?

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What cal is this? Mic says .449.

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Broke out some NOE molds for my 300BLK and 458SOCOM. PowderBuyThePound powder

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New to castboolits, just cleaned my first batch of wheel weights, gonna turn it all into 00 buck!

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Some Sessions Just Suck

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Casting & coating some Keiths this weekend.

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Thoughts on casting.458s and using sabots? Hoping for a double duty mold that works for 45-70 as well

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First order of cancerous toblerone arrived, any tips on cheap methods of lead acquisition?

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Ratio of lead to coww

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First time casting pure lead. Any advice?

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Loaded up some big bois this past weekend

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Shiny Elmer Keith Hammers

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100+ pounds of bullets ready for powder coating. How many pounds of bullets is everyone else sitting on?

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126 lbs cast ,podwer coated and sized during my first week and a half of stay at home

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I Wouldn’t Tell Anyone If I Won The Lottery, But There Would Be Subtle Hints

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Sizing and lubing 1000 boolits was a 5 hour expedition. Takes a lot longer than casting.

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My 20.00 Walmart toaster oven took a shit

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Cast load in the 7.62 x 54r.

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ADVISE Issues with 4570

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Ran out of wadcutters, so I made more. 148gr 38spl.

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It's a sign! found this guy in the parking lot this morning

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12ga brass tipped slugs.

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Anybody else do this?

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Not a caster...but a reloader. Looking to get my hands on some cast 300blk bullets to shoot subsonic, suppressed. 220g or so. Any good name companies you guys trust?

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Any tips or hints on how to break down a 700 pound lead yacht keel ?

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Second attempt at making muffins. Still not as clean as I would like, but much better than my first try. Hopefully I can get the rest out in my production pot.

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How do I fix these ugly castings?

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1st attempt with range and wheel weights

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Fresh from the quench

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Got just a shade over 35lbs of Linotype delivered today

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Why so serious...?

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HF vs Eastwood PC quick shake and bake results

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Pros/cons of 2 circled molds with PC

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Got 100lbs of pure lead at the scrap yard. Best way to make it shootable. Any ideas?

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Free wheel weight day!

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Cast Boolits follow up. The cast 357 Mags I reloaded were a success (yay me)! However, I did notice a considerably large amount of smoke when I fired. Pictured is the boolit used. Used 5.3 grains of Unique out of my 6 in S&W 686-3. Should I be concerned? Is it lead? Wax? Powder?

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Does anyone make a 110gr 308 bullet mold similar to the vmax shape ?

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Any round nose .309 cast projectile not seating straight in .300BO. LEE 300BO seating die.

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Favorite powder coating color?

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New lee mold.

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NOE 130 gr. 9 mm HP's coated with Eastwoods Silver Vein PC

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Lee or Lyman for 357.

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Not bad for half a days work.

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Someone else's scrap is my casting alloy!

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Just cast my very first lead balls for my 44 cap and ball revolver. Thought they turned out pretty good.

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My first castin secession

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2 nights of casting. ~1200 bullets. Should keep me and my buddy shooting for another few competitions... if we can find primers.

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New colors for me Maroon sea foam green and grape from Eastwood we’ll see how these turn out

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Savrog 12ga Zeverboy slugs- segmented HP and HP. Made out of Lyman #2 with a 22 cal bullet for scale.

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Loading 38 SPL with Cast RNFP 158gr, have a big tub of Red Dot. Lee Manual suggests 2.9start to 3.1max, Alliant site says 3.06start to 3.4 max. Planning to go 3.0gr load, does this sound okay? It's within the Lee parameters against 158gr cast, but no data for these bullets are available, thanks

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Getting into 12 gauge casting, 7/8oz slugs

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Sizing issues?

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First time casting with the lee .356 125gr.

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Finally loaded up a box, just in time for deer season.

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I have the slugs, now if I could only find shotgun powder

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I picked this up for approximately .50¢/lb. it’s mostly roofing lead, a little bit of shot and some 45 cal bullets. I’ll probably wait until I have enough to alloy it with some bullets. Or maybe I’ll just melt it all anyway.

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Anyone ever get Silver Shot to cast bullets for werewolves??? Of course doubling as generational wealth in the event you never meet a werewolf. 😁 Not affiliated with Monument Metals, the pic is just for an example.

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Defective Mold?

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That enough crimp? 44 mag

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Started casting and powder coating today. Pretty addicting.

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Finished up 30lbs of 9mm boolits

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Using the 150gr Lee mold the last few nights. Most are dropping at about 148gr.

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Third casting session complete.

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What ammo shortage?

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What’s on top of my lead it’s bronze gold color

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Almost too pretty to lube!

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First attempt in 35 years, for my 9X39.

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First casts - ever. Not so bad, methinks.

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Need advice on new powder coat (color doesnt matter) Two coats of HF white shake and bake in toaster oven didnt turn out like i expected.

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Obligatory shitpost

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Gas check necessary if I'm powder coating?

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Not sure about this lee mold yet but gonna give it a try. I have a couple lymans that always shot good in the M1 also.

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Novice here, can I use this to mix with pure lead to make cast bullets?

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My casting cart a couple months ago.

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Clear powder coat & gas checked .501 pills ready to get loaded for my S&W 500.

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First time a success! The lee die dropped beautiful boolits once it was hot

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Green is my favorite color. There’s definitely room for improvement.

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Can old/pulled bullets be melted for the lead?

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Are they good to send?

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New guy here. Pewter was reccomended in place of more expensive tin so i went on the hunt. First stop I found Ol George crossing the Delaware. It was meant to be

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New guy getting into casting. Only progress thus far has been a trip to the local scrap yard.

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300 Blackout Getting Chewed Up

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Lee Alox is sticky. Might try pan lubing next.

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Lee Ingot Mold Debris

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How do you use this stuff?

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Wadcutter's today

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Is this legit? $25 for a 2 cav mold seems WAYYY too cheap, but everyone says precision is legit. Theres like, 4 other molds in stock in 308-309 for this same price, and then one in 7.62 for $113, which seems more reasonable? Any explanation?

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Powder Coating Question

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SVAROG 12GA RUSSIAN SLUG MOLDS AVAILABLE ON EBAY FROM WHITEORANGE23 RIGHT NOW...04/03/24 @ 11AM MST

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Bullet trap from Home Depot. Recycle your bullets/save your lead. Staple targets to the lid of a bucket of rubber mulch. Replace lids as needed, catch most handgun bullets.

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45-70 bullets. Cast in the last week or so.

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Apparently I should have been more specific when I asked the kid at the tire shop for some of their old wheel weights. This is what he left in my car for me.

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Free quality flux material. Does anyone use sawdust off of the floor? Seems wrong.

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How’d I do?

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Cast my first projectiles today! 158gr .358 SWC

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Bit off more than I could chew tonight

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Dumb question, but is this usable for casting?

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I think a did a better job powder coating my soup can this time. They measure .358 to about .362 in diameter. How do I know if I should resize them?

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Sweet! Rotometals email came in this morning, placed my order and already got shipping confirmation

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.452 help

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Is this average for wheel weights? The gallon on the left is lead, the pot on right is zinc, and the middle is like 3 gallons of iron. This all came from a 5 gallon pail.

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