TECH TIPS - POST UP YOUR TRICKS OF THE TRADE
This is for those little known or unique loading techniques and methods. I am also including casting in with this.
Add your's or a link to a good one elsewhere.
STARTING WITH ABPT1'S CASTING THREAD:
TECH TIPS - POST UP YOUR TRICKS OF THE TRADE
This is for those little known or unique loading techniques and methods. I am also including casting in with this.
Add your's or a link to a good one elsewhere.
STARTING WITH ABPT1'S CASTING THREAD:
Last edited by O.S.O.K.; 04-04-2011 at 09:12 AM. Reason: MERGED INTO NEW TECH TIPS STICKY THREAD
Slick bro. Nice setup there, even with a vent hood. Very nice indeed.
And I thought I had a nice set up.
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Indeed. Very nice!
I do all of my casting outside. I tend to cast a lot of different types rather than a whole bunch of one caliber.
I use all the major brands of molds - depending on which manufacturer has the particular design that I'm looking for.
I'm kind of partial to Lee's dies though - they are just amazing for the low cost IMHO.
Here's a few pics of some of my work:
Some Lee 310 grain .431" gas check:
Here's some .314" Lyman's for my SMLE's:
A selection - Lee .501" 440 grian, the Lee 310 .431" and some Oregon trail 170 gr fp's that I put gas checks on: The cartridge shown is a 500 S&W with a Berry's 350 grain plated bullet.
And here I am with the camp skinner with the little boar hog that I shot with the .44 Mag Marlin on my shoulder - with the 44 310 grain boolits shown above:
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Meh, you guys are making this a LOT harder than it needs to be...:
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I NEED A YUGO GAS TUBE AND LOWER HG FERRULE PLEASE!
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Man, and all this time I thought I had to melt the lead first.... what an idiot I've been
OK - LET'S MAKE THIS A BOOLIT CASTING PIC THREAD. POST UP YOUR EQUIPEMENT, CASTING BENCH, UNIQUE EQUIPMENT, BOOLITS, ETC. - ALL TO DO WITH CASTING.
Last edited by O.S.O.K.; 08-03-2010 at 09:58 PM.
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I remember reading that Elmer Keith reported long ago that a cast bullet from a 45 Colt going 900 fps would penetrate more deeply than a 180 grain softnose bullet from a 30-06 going 2700 fps - in an elk.
He didn't say the effect was the same, only that the big cast bullet would penetrate further. But if you think about it, a 45 caliber hole in a straight line through and animal is plenty to do the killing.
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I have one or two keith style molds ....I think if I was going for medium game the hard cast .45lc at 800 fps is good. but for large game .454 around 1200-1500 fps would do the trick on just about any thing... I know for a fact what ever it is, it will be leaking good after one or two of them....I have pushed the same round in a 45/70 much faster with next to no leading at all ...
Last edited by abpt1; 04-03-2011 at 05:59 AM.
Yep, they are deadly.
And really, I could get by with a 45 Colt Vaquero and a Marlin 45 Colt 94 and be well equiped to hunt just about anything and defend myself from anything. Just about.
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I'm getting things together to start casting. Feeding the 300 BLK is a very expensive proposition so I'm going to be casting my own 247 gr "boolits" for it. (There is a group buy for the molds going on at the castboolits forum.)
I was able to pick up an RCBS bottom poor smelter off ebay for around 100 bucks. Now looking for a good deal on a lubrasizer. . . .
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Last edited by abpt1; 04-02-2011 at 08:43 PM.
Better not be using Griswold pans for casting. I happen to be a collector of old cast iron cook ware. You are here by warned! And i have posted this around your property.
I will be keeping an eye on your corn bread.
I am sitting in my angry chair!
Sweet! Great pics!!!
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I like a very fine crimp on my 5.56 loads and since my brass is all once fired its hard to see a fine crimp over a heavy crimp. So I set my die up and use a marker to color the case mouth and once you crimp the case the marker comes off and you can see your crimp line perfectly .
Nice tech tip
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lol I like the lead corn!
That's a nice set up. Makes me realize just how under set up that I am.
Of course, I only cast round balls....and typically less than a dozen at a time.
OK, but I'm going to fold casting into it - I don't like too many stickies at the top.
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