Lee 00 Buck shot mold

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I been casting for a few years now from black powder to centerfire and pistol. I gave the shotgun slug a go with both Lee & Lyman slugs but never found an accurate load. But buckshot on the other hand I'm sure I can get a good group (spread). After all a 3" load of 00 Buck is what I used to harvest a nice w.t. buck last fall, so this got me to thinking why not just cast my own. I do have a Lee .32 cal round ball mold for my flintlock squirrel gun but it only casts two at a time.
I read an article in Handloader a while back on the Lee mold and now I want to give it a shot. I have a couple pounds of pistol/shotgun powder to use and plenty of wads and hulls. My buckshot will be cast from wheel wts and water dropped but I might give some pure lead water dropped a try too and see which shoots best.
Anyone here cast there own buckshot with the Lee? What loads have worked well for you?
Thx in advance :cool:
 
I'm hoping to cast some 00 buchshot in the near future. Will also be my first venture into reloading shotshells.

Will be watching this thread to see what works for others.
 
I have lots of wads, Federal, Rem and Win. red, yellow & white.
As long as I can get a good speed and pattern and lethal humane killing distances with my load I'll be happy.

Fingers284- I don't think you can hunt with a cannon lol
 
I have one and reload buckshot(mostly for gravel pit fun) I fine the Lee mold works but have trouble with proper fill sometimes I get 18 balls sometimes i get 3.

Any tricks of the trade out there ?
 
It can take quite a while to get the Lee mold up to temp. I find that once it starts casting well I need to keep a pretty rapid pace to keep it going. Nothing dangerously fast but can't be chatting or distracted while doing it (shouldn't be regardless of safety's sake).
 
Huntsman said:
I have lots of wads, Federal, Rem and Win. red, yellow & white.
As long as I can get a good speed and pattern and lethal humane killing distances with my load I'll be happy.

Fingers284- I don't think you can hunt with a cannon lol
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LOL..Don't plan on "hunting" the ol' girl (it weights in at around 500 lbs) but I do plan on "pattern testing" her from the yard out 2-300 yrds into the adjoining grain field....if there happens to be 1500-2000 of those barley stealing- swath stomping- field ruining feathered vermin out there just on the day I decide to "test"...sucks to be them I guess.
 
c.t.smith said:
Yea Thinking your right. I need a new pot as mine is a home done job and think its not getting hot enough to keep the big molds running. it does 2 cavity molds fine
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Get a cheap hot plate from Canadian Tire and preheat the mold with it. Makes casting so much easier with any mold. Won't take long to get a feel for how hot you need to preheat and pretty soon you will be casting keepers from your first pour. I bought the cheapest one with the normal coiled element so I ground the points off a 7 1/4" fine saw blade and use it as a heat plate to even out the heat to the mold.
 
sawzall said:
Get a cheap hot plate from Canadian Tire and preheat the mold with it. Makes casting so much easier with any mold. Won't take long to get a feel for how hot you need to preheat and pretty soon you will be casting keepers from your first pour. I bought the cheapest one with the normal coiled element so I ground the points off a 7 1/4" fine saw blade and use it as a heat plate to even out the heat to the mold.
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excellent Idea thanks. Ill hit up Canadian Tire and drop by my rural dump as they have a share shed that people drop off usable items such as hot plates.
 
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