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today I made my first 45, 230 gr RN lead cast bullets.
I melted and mixed 16 pounds of lead with 1 pound of tin.
gas burner and cast iron pot.


some of the tools

afan to speed up cooling the spruce puddle and aome tin foil layed out to catch lead from cutting the spruce.

5 gal. bucket 3/4 full of water with a towel to catch bullets as they come out of the mold.

456 bullets, 6 were culls

lubed and spread out on wax paper

tomorrow I'll size them
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the bullets weigh 230.2 grains
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/elkhunter/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps49a3faaf.jpg[/img]
most of the bullets came out fine but a bunch are like this.
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What caused that ? will it shear off when sizing?
heres another picture of the same bullet.
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The directions on the lube so to let the lubed bullets dry overnight. do I realy need to wait that long until I run the bullets through the sizing die?

Jamie