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liberals. Dried and powdered. I don't understand, why would you want your bullets to smell like chit??
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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liberals. Dried and powdered. I don't understand, why would you want your bullets to smell like chit?? For those who like the "Texas Heart Shot".  Ed
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It's a cover scent.
The hogs think they've found a mate.
Then WHAM! Hammer of Thor....
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the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
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It's a cover scent.
The hogs think they've found a mate.
Then WHAM! Hammer of Thor.... I wanna shoot a pig so bad I can taste it........Damn, I sure do love bacon.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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Paraffin has worked well for me.
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One time I found a small metal box in a bucket of WW ,s inside was these small thin papers and this funny smelling green herb it all made great flux but all the boolits shot just a little high in the target:). Clint
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You've been in the woods too long Clint.
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But I am happier there! Will have to get the wife to help me and post a pic of the cabin. How. Have you been Creeker? Clint
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Retired & doing well. Sometimes I do miss casting every day though but I'll get over it. HEE HEE
Would love to see the cabin.
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Great thread. Best wishes to Creeker. Lots of ways to get good smelling bullets, I see.
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Great thread. Best wishes to Creeker. Lots of ways to get good smelling bullets, I see. Thanks. Being retired is great, headed to Maine. 
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Wood dowel. It's nice to be able to use your 'flux' to scrape the sides of your pot. This. Mine is an old hickory hammer handle. Every so often I add a pea size piece of bees wax as well.
How many obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb? None, they prefer to remain in the dark.
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Sawdust and the leftover crayons given to my children when we eat at a restaurant.
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Dried pitch chunks from scars on Yellow Pines, Red Fir or W. Larch. Throw a piece in, stir, when it smokes light it w/a BBQ lighter and stir/scrape till no more flames, skim and cast- Muddy
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My daughter's broken crayons seem to work well.
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Crayons, candle wax when casting. When smelting ww, I stir in saw dust as well for the first of two fluxes.
I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.
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I use canning paraffin and often keep a layer of dry pine sawdust on top of the melt. Keeps surface oxidation down and smells better than the wax based fluxes. I tried commercial fluxes, but they crudded up the pot and solidified in the container. Not worth the money imho.
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I use paraffin or sawdust. I ran out of the latter a while back and had a bunch of dry oak leaves on the patio. They worked really well.
I spent 8 years working in a solder factory. We'd cast 20-70 lb billets of alloy. A lot of the ideas from that place seem to carry over into bullet casting. What we used to flux the big 600 lbs pots of alloy was chunk charcoal. They used to buy it by the truck load, and I'd buy a few bags off work here and there for BBQ'n. It was great stuff, and really cleaned up the melt in a hurry.
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