After living in this house for four years, I finally put the last thing I needed in the basement for complete bullet casting and reloading. I put the ventilation system in today and to break it in I cast up a coffee can of .38 wadcutters and half a coffee can of "soup cans". I have been casting outside, so I went at it hard in the spring and fall and when I ran out of bullets I waited. Now I can cast any time I want, The only thing I need now is an indoor range. I will still use the turkey cooker outside for melting down lead and WW's. The range I shoot at most of the time has concrete benchs and seats and I've learned to take a pillow to sit on, not for the padding, it's for the cold. The only thing I have to worry about now, is my wife coming up with new "honey do's".

Ed B

Ed,

Do you mean you cast "outside" with no cover at all, or in an unheated grage/out building?

I have always cast in an unheated shed, all the way down to -20 F, but I use a fish-cooker heat source and once the melt is hot I'm never cold. Rather, in the summer things become very hot. I've completed casting a time or two and found to my surprize that I had become quite overheated and not realized it during the consitrated effort of casting.

Good morning,
Forrest

Those conservation department shooting benches do get COLD.

FAsmus

I cast outside in the sun in the warmer months. Here in Missouri when it's 100 degrees plus, getting a little warmer doesn't make much difference, but I sure don't like to work outside in the cold. Since I've gotten older (but not much smarter) it seems I prefer sitting inside instead laying in a snowy field shooting crows.

Ed B