First time shooting boolits I casted myself

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I know the group could be better but I just wanted to share this proud moment with everyone.:rockOn: I have just started casting my own boolits and it was a real rush shooting something I created myself. They are 158 gr SWC 357 mag using 4.5 gr of tightgroup. They shoot pretty nice. I just have to work on getting the group a little tighter.

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I am using Lee's TL358-158 SWC. A double cavity mould. I am still trying to learn how to drop good quality boolits. Right now a lot of them end up back in the pot to be remelted and recast. It is an awesome feeling going knowing that the ammunition I am using I made myself. :D
 
You have been blessed by the Gods of the Silver Stream and life will not be the same, they will try you at times, like when you buy a lee Mould, or when the tinsel fairy visits, and showers you with hot tinsel. Enjoy and whatever you do, don't let one or two bad casting sessions turn you off. Even after 35 years of casting, some in casting business; I still have sessions where nothing goes right!Contact me if you have any ques. or probs.
 
whoops7777 With a Lee Aluminum Mould I would run my melt 725 to 750 and this may give you a better fill out and less rejects. Even if your bullets look a little frosty they are all right and are probably filled out good.
Ken.
 
Keep up the good work! I've cast bullets a couple of times now for my Enfields, Mannlicher straight-pulls and 8mm Mausers. Each time my bullets turn out a bit better, so much so that I'm sometimes shocked at the accuracy that I've gotten with some of my first attempts at casting that would now be remelted.

The process will also speed up as you get more familiar with it, and it's enabled me to shoot rifles that would probably be too expensive to shoot regularly with FMJ ammo.

Frank
 
Thank you all.

I was so pumped after going to the range yesterday that I fired up the heat and melted down a bunch more wheel weights. I now have another 200 lbs of brand new ingots just sitting and waiting to be made into boolits.:D
 
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Congrats, I cast all my own as well, presently at 13 moulds. Mostly steel moulds but have a couple Lee's that cast pretty well if you watch the temp of the lead pot and not get your mould too hot.

Casting boolits is addictive!

keep up the good work!
 
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Cast 4 - 1.35 Kilo Coffe cans full over the weekend plus some samples from other moulds that I wanted to try.
Have 9MM, 357, 44, and 45's to last for the rest of this year and most of next.
Ken.
 
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Cast 4 - 1.35 Kilo Coffe cans full over the weekend plus some samples from other moulds that I wanted to try.
Have 9MM, 357, 44, and 45's to last for the rest of this year and most of next.
Ken.
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If 4 coffee can last you a year and a half you don't shoot enough.;)

The least I could do is buy those bullets so you can keep going on your new-found hobby.....:evil:
 
joe not quite retired yet so.
On the sale not likely cause I am a greedy little rat that is going to enjoy seeding each and everyone of those lead devils into the back stop at the local range.
Ken.
 
The word BOOLITS is now being used by serious lead(cast) boolit users...it is used to differentiate them from j-word bullets..some of us believe that j-word bullets are just a fad that will pass and the shooting world will be fine again, just as Harry Pope and Doc. Hudson left it.
 
bullet casting and shooting is a very rewarding hobby, i have done it for at lest 30 years, make sure you follow the safety rules so you or someone else doesnt become over exposed to lead , the thing i worry about most is good ventilation when casting, very easy to expose someone to lead if not done right, have fun but be carefull ,wade
 
Congrats on casting your own.

But I gotta say...

This 'boolit' stuff gives me red-arse. I can't even read their site, and I want to read more on it... it's just toooo annoying reading that word over and over.

Do you shoot them in peestols?
 
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