Home Forums Reloading Bullet Casting Has your pot been hot lately?

Knocked the dust off my pot and made a few this afternoon.

Nope - don't own one yet but doing the research now. Need 480 Ruger fodder as bullet choices seem to be limited and I can't imagine much walking away from a good wide hard cast bullet in that particular revolver.

5.5 hours to cast, coat and size 1031 125 9mm’s the other day.





Cast up a bunch of 210 .41 Keith bullets as well. Sized and lubed a few of those instead of coating. I like both traditionally lubed and powder coated.







Todd

I cast a couple hundred Lyman 457122. I like to coat and size them to .454 for my 45 Colt Handi rifle. At 1300fps that bullet is a killer.

Thanks, Dinny

Day before Christmas i poured up about 10 lbs. cast into bullets for the Son in laws 9mm.

He got to powdercoat them today,one of his boys helped do the sizing.

It was fun.

Ran 15-20 pounds of of the RCBS 325 grain 45-70 and 15 of the 358429 Group buy from theold AR GB days.

Have been shooting the RCBS .459s, but have yet to S&L the 358429s.

Nope. I got a new pot for Christmas 2019 and it's still in the box. Shameful, I know...

Well went to load the other day and NO 45 195s so I had to run 15-20 # of that Projie.
Now I have to size the 35 and 45s.
Maybe time to do an inventory and see what I need.

Cool in the casting space so I will have to warm the projies and sizer.

Hit the pot again today.

Cranked out some more semi wadcutters for the 38/357 and some more fodder for the 9mm.

Might do some more in the morning if i am able.

Been on the cool side here but ran off a batch thru my RCBS 45 cal. 405 gr with GC. Got to keep bullets on hand for my 45-70. A couple days ago did a bunch of .401 175gr for the 40 S&W. Also did a few thru the Saeco & LBT molds for the 38-55. Other than that nothing much.

I melted down about 5 5 gallon buckets of ww this weekend. Compared to my last batch of ww smelted 15 years ago- well- times they are a changin'! Used to I have about 30% waste out of a 5 gallon bucket. Now I am only getting about 30% return. Glad these were given to me otherwise they would not have been a good deal.

Out of the return I made 2 different batches of 50/50 ww/Pb for general use with some tin solder thrown in. I also made a 40 lb ww/25 lb batch of tin sweetened alloy for HP rifle.

Glad that task is over so I can get down to business

I cast up so many bullets about 5 yrs ago, I am still trying to shoot them all!