About all I use anymore.

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good looking muffins!

Bill if your post had been what to use for an ingot mold for range scrap the bandwidth taken up would bankrupt Saeed.

i don't think god could bankrupt Saeed

Nice muffins indeed Bill. I have enough ingots to last me until the final trump but I have an understanding with the local tire shop + he saves me his weights. A lot of those new pot metal ones in there these days though.

Yep, an old muffin tin, boys. And what a joy to cast a bunch of Keith bullets for the .44 using the RCBS 430-250 K.
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Bill, do you powder coat those?

god i hope not!!

No powder coating here. I either lube with a lubrisizer or tumble lube with Lee Liquid Alox.

I cast that same bullet Bill in linotype + lube w/ Veral Smiths blue lube

How hard are you bullets made from range pick-ups?

That would vary of course but I use a Saeco gauge to establish hardness in a Saeco or Brinell hardness rating. Once one mixes range dross, it's anybody's guess each casting. For G.P. it really makes no difference; just cast + shoot; for plinking + general shooting science is not required. By the same token, if one is adamant about a certain hardness then one can always add or subtract Linotype, Tin, 50/50 or P/G.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Yep, an old muffin tin, boys. And what a joy to cast a bunch of Keith bullets for the .44 using the RCBS 430-250 K.
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Hey Bill, Since they're already boxed up, I'll send you my mailing address.

Gosh, thanks for your offer but they are already getting new homes in .44 Special and .44 Magnum cases.
Working really well in the little Bulldog over 5 grains of Universal.

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Bill, nice pattern + even nicer revolver. I love those Bulldog Pugs. I keep one in the side table beside the "throne". But you know my love interest in the 44 spl. + mag.

I've been tinkering with the 357 Sig, working out a plinking load that uses tumble lubed cast bullets and range pick-up 40 brass. Surplus carbine powder didn't burn clean enough for reliable operation in the autoloader, so I tried a few different powders I had on hand.

Those look just dandy. Recently had a chance to shoot the .357 Sig out of a Glock and was impressed.

I had a buddy come up a couple of years ago with his Sig 357. He was in the Texas DPS + that was their carry piece. It was an impressive round. I have another friend whose son is in the P+W game dept. + they have issued them 9MM but only 2 magazines of ammo. They frown on shooting the rounds you were issued.

Hey Bill:
I can see the bottom of that box.
IT ain't near big enough.
You need to start filling buckets
full like I do. HA!

Wish you'd text, so I could share
some pictures!

One thing I've always figured with range
pellets. Others have already played the
hardness games. I just make two batches.
IF I can mark 'em with a thumb nail, they're
soft enough for BP use. IF too hard, they
go for revolver slugs.

I got suckered into: "sure you can have all the
range lead you want as long as you agree to
'clean out the basement".

By the time I got that done I had 75 FULL 5 gal buckets!
Gave away about 40 of 'em. They're gone now. and I still have over 2100 1# ingots
in the three milk crates I'll never use up.

Plus four 2 gal buckets of slugs cast, and about
350 ingots on the casting table yet.

Need to get back to it someday.

George

george, you willing to part with some of those ingots, say 100 or so?

BH:

Sorry I just got back to this now.

Then I would have easy. Can't do it now
due to another 4 screws in my back.
Makes 14 now. Just too hard to kneel down since
and impossible to carry much with a cane up
the steps of the shop.

IF you could get down here and get 'em yourself fine.

George

Just for the heck of it, I weighed a plastic nut jar full of range scrap, got 19 pounds, melted and cleaned it and got a net of 14.5 pounds of casting alloy.

I have an "arrangment" with my friend who has the local tire center on the HWY. He gives me access to the bin of W.W.s. Unfortunately during the Obama administration there was a lead wheel weight ban + a move to pot metal that can not be cast as we know it. I have to throw over half of it away. Frog in the slowly heating pot syndrome. Just because the leftists are using evil designs, doesn't mean that they are stupid.

Bill:

I've found a 3# coffee can of bullets or sinkers
etc.
Will weigh right at 59 pounds.

For "small quantities" that's what I use.
For those I load and shoot lots of, fill a 2 gallon
bucket of each size. Seem's to be just about the right amount.

George

Bill,

RE: Tumble Lube;

I may have asked this question before. I only get around to this web site every so often so I just can't remember if someone has answered this question before.

When you tumble lube don't the bullet bases get dinged up?

Thanks

Bob in JAX

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
No powder coating here. I either lube with a lubrisizer or tumble lube with Lee Liquid Alox.

Bob, there is some battering, but I have never noticed it to degrade accuracy at handgun ranges. In a careful study, it may very well be found to do so.

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When you tumble lube don't the bullet bases get dinged up?

When I "tumble" lube mine.

I just take liquid alox dropped a few hand full into a cut open gallon jug.

Shake them around a bit and done..

No damage or never enough to worry about.

Never thought to put them into a actual case tumbler.

Yeah, I do mine in a plastic cottage cheese tub.