First time Casting, and pan lubing

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Morpheus256

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Well, with a 455 Webley added to the collection I decided it only made sense to start casting, Took a bit to figure out a rhythm that worked for me but i'm pretty happy with the results. Lubed them with a candle from Walmart, Petroleum jelly, and STP oil treatment. sized with a lee 454 sizing die. suggestions or comments welcome!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zZwWv6ihmCo42i_6XeY7-4cZ4Zy55Jg-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IBB75OlYmckeP9hGCxAgbSpe4gIQR-fW

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RDsDSC6nco-R94J3W1QkeD7To51gSqM7

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LUon1itVv1iFcjF84WjLdhPhOBRe9JIw
 
You are certainly off to a good start - great looking bullets from I'm guessing an RCBS mould or the bulk buy one through Castboolits ??
I never mixed my own bullet lube, mostly used SPG and had good results with that.
Regardless, excellent job.
 
hatman1793 said:
Way too much work & preparation time lubing it old school. Like the bullet though.

Many here, like me, have gone down the powder coating road with outstanding results.
Cast, powder coat, size & reload.
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Except that buying PC keeps you dependent on some retailer whereas making your own lube allows to get creative with ingredients that would otherwise end up in the garbage. It’s a perfect complement to bullet casting. (Another is making your own gas checks...or paper patching your bullets.)

And since when did the notion of wasting time ( or saving time) become a concern to those of us who cast bullets?

And that reminds me of this joke:

Boy: If I had known you were a virgin, I would have taken more time.
Girl: If I had known you had time, I would have taken off my pantyhose.
 
Yes, RCBS molds, Cast fairly well but the (hollowbase plate pin?) likes to hangup on the bolts heads I'm thinking a pair of large surface area washers might prevent that. Finding the temp was tricky, that lee magnum pot runs hot! turned it down to 2 to get decent castings.

The Lube was a recipe I found online, we don't really have a reloading friendly gunstore in my city, closest one was an hour away vs my Walmart trip being 5 minutes, for $19 I have enough lube melted into an old pot to last me for Tens of thousands of rounds. Just need to pickup a silicone cake pan. I had a good laugh at the "way too much work and prep time" I'm casting with a ladle and a single cavity mold, there is nothing fast about my production haha.

took 10 out to the range last night, ran 5 in the Webley and 5 in the colt, starting load of Alliant red dot (3gn) and they flew great at Avg 450fps.

Between free range lead, my $20 lube, 4c primers and 1c of powder I figure my loaded cost to be 5c/round. A far cry from the $75+ for box of 50.
 
A definite NO AL Bear. The world is not ending soon, besides if you think it is, stock up on powder. Thats what preppers do.

No offence, but making your own lube means acquiring the very components you feel might disappear. Your end-of-days lube relies on the hardness (BNH) of your lead or your attempts to harden your castings that your make-shift lube viable.

The economy of motion principle means that you wrought just enough effort into your process from start to finish to achieve a useable product. Additional time & more effort in the process is wasted. So why do it?
 
I'd be in the same boat. I bought 20 lbs of bee's wax, 1lb of lanolin, 2 liters of canola oil and some lard. Cast my own bullets and then pan lubed them and used a enlarged case to cut and lift them out. Had a nail as a push out of the case. Found if I loaded to many, too far ahead of shooting them, they really tarnished(green) the cases. Still have 10 lbs of Black powder to use up.
I now powder coat all bullets I use with smokeless powder.
 
Morpheus256 said:
Yes, RCBS molds, Cast fairly well but the (hollowbase plate pin?) likes to hangup on the bolts heads I'm thinking a pair of large surface area washers might prevent that. Finding the temp was tricky, that lee magnum pot runs hot! turned it down to 2 to get decent castings.

The Lube was a recipe I found online, we don't really have a reloading friendly gunstore in my city, closest one was an hour away vs my Walmart trip being 5 minutes, for $19 I have enough lube melted into an old pot to last me for Tens of thousands of rounds. Just need to pickup a silicone cake pan. I had a good laugh at the "way too much work and prep time" I'm casting with a ladle and a single cavity mold, there is nothing fast about my production haha.

took 10 out to the range last night, ran 5 in the Webley and 5 in the colt, starting load of Alliant red dot (3gn) and they flew great at Avg 450fps.

Between free range lead, my $20 lube, 4c primers and 1c of powder I figure my loaded cost to be 5c/round. A far cry from the $75+ for box of 50.
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I like to brag that my (plinking) rifle loads cost 10 cents to shoot. I make my own lube (slowly) and make my own gas checks (slowly) ... and take my time putting everything together. Then I go to the range and shoot at the targets that I make . Those, however, are not cheap; I use pizza boxes and a medium cheese and mushroom sets me back 18 bucks. And then there’s the beer .
 
Al Bear said:
Except that buying PC keeps you dependent on some retailer whereas making your own lube allows to get creative with ingredients that would otherwise end up in the garbage. It’s a perfect complement to bullet casting. (Another is making your own gas checks...or paper patching your bullets.)

And since when did the notion of wasting time ( or saving time) become a concern to those of us who cast bullets?

And that reminds me of this joke:

Boy: If I had known you were a virgin, I would have taken more time.
Girl: If I had known you had time, I would have taken off my pantyhose.
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All fine and well but 1 pound of powder will do many thousands of bullets. It is really only a one time buy if you want it to be.
 
Al Bear said:
Except that buying PC keeps you dependent on some retailer whereas making your own lube allows to get creative with ingredients that would otherwise end up in the garbage. It’s a perfect complement to bullet casting. (Another is making your own gas checks...or paper patching your bullets.)

And since when did the notion of wasting time ( or saving time) become a concern to those of us who cast bullets?

And that reminds me of this joke:

Boy: If I had known you were a virgin, I would have taken more time.
Girl: If I had known you had time, I would have taken off my pantyhose.
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Boys, boys, boys...im squirreling away stuff do do it both ways. Right now im sticking to powder coating because its easier.

No reason to be stuck to just one option.
 
My position was simply to countervail a position that diminished using home lube recipes in favour of powder coating (I make my own lube). Other than the fact that you have to buy powder coating (which I don’t like) ... I’m going to try it . So here are my questions to you guys who swear by pc:

1) Is the powder coating toxic (can you use it on hunting bullets)?
2) PC bullets are crazy �� bright primary colours ... won’t they frighten the animals?
 
There is only an issue during baking of the powder. If you get TGIC free powder its even less of an issue.

Once the powder is cured it is pretty much non toxic. Treat the powder as you would any other powder.

Do animals get frightened by brightly coloured birds or flowers?
 
Al Bear said:
I like to brag that my (plinking) rifle loads cost 10 cents to shoot. I make my own lube (slowly) and make my own gas checks (slowly) ... and take my time putting everything together. Then I go to the range and shoot at the targets that I make . Those, however, are not cheap; I use pizza boxes and a medium cheese and mushroom sets me back 18 bucks. And then there’s the beer .
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Ahh, yes the Beer, cept I like the Hawaiian with feta cheese added to it.
Great pictures of the set up Morpheus256 !
How do they group?
Rob
 
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