Aaahhh! I finally have some 40 deg F temps overnight and feel it's cold enough to start casting.......as soon as I get back from my elk hunt this week!

How do the members feel about casting in warmer temps?

Alan

I did several thoudand bullets last year during the winter.I have just about used them up and the cooler weather is here.I have a couple of new moulds that I will try out this winter.I do not like casting when it's hot,I get better results when it's cooler.

Well around here it don't get down to "cold" very often. I don't have much of an issue with casting out in my shop area with a couple of small fans it isn't bad even when it was pushing the three digit temps.

Then again, I was trying to get a load worked up for hunting this fall, so I really didn't have much choice.

Now smelting the weights down into ingots, I was out at the butcrack of dawn when it was only in the 90's to get a head start on the heat, and usually through within a couple of hours as it started to hit the 100's. I have plenty cast up for the season now and loads I know work and are accurate. Now I am looking forward to some down time in a month or so to pour up some new ones, when it IS cooler.

he nice thing about SW Idaho, it hardly gets to 100 degrees in the summer. The propane tank and turkey cooker get set up in front of my shop, big fan gets set behind me, and I start shoveling WW in and smelting them down. A guy does go thru a gallon of sweet tea pretty fast though. And THEN, the pitstops to the house start. I made over 1100lbs of 3lb+/- ingots this year. I prefer casting in the winter, not much else to do between hunting season and spring except attend the SHOT Show and SCI. And load ammunition.

Pour me...

Rich

For me casting in the summer isn't so bad as long as I start the swamp cooler about an hour to two hours before I start casting in the summer. Before I bought the portable swamp cooler I would only cast in the fall, winter, or spring. It would reach 130 in my garage in the summer prior to the swamp cooler.
I still prefer the cooler weather though.