It's casting day!

[Beagle333]

Finally! After 5 months of too hot/gotta work/it's raining/gotta do chores/or whatever..... It's casting day! I have made some 45's and 8mm's this morning from my usual 50/50 blend, but now the pot is emptied out and getting reloaded with some magic mix provided so graciously by another member here. So I'm going to melt down these mystery "cobs" and pour up some HP's for the Whelen.
Let the 1.75 alloy flow!!!!!

[Mike / Tx]

Finally! After 5 months of too hot/gotta work/it's raining/gotta do chores/or whatever.....

Ohh PULEESE!!!!!

I'll buy the work thing, and maybe taking care of those honey do's, but other than that naaa.

Oh and about that alloy, you better get your test media ready, your not going to want to waste it. I hear its some good stuff....

Oh and PLEASE post up a report with data and pics....Inquiring minds want to know how it does and with what.

[zxcvbob]

I cast 158 grain RNFP's last night, my first casting session in a long while. 318 of 'em, and not a wrinkled bullet in the lot. (I have ingots exactly like that; I made condiment cup ingots for a couple of years, then switched to corncobs because they are easier to handle.)

It felt good; I'll have to fire up the Lee melter again this afternoon. I also need to lube these, and measure a few to see if they'll need to be sized.

[skizzums]

yessir, its a beautiful first day of fall here in the South, i have been seriously neglecting 9mm for a long time now

every time i cast the 300s and 38/357s and 224 etc, i always have in the back of my head that i really need to do 356, i never do cuz its BORING, a repetitive utility round, that unfortuneatly i shoot more of than anything

i got a call last night to go shoot today, i went to pack my bag and i see that i only have 400 ROUNDS OF 9 LEFT!! how did that happen? so i got up at 0630 and casted, pc and loading, about 1 hr to cast, 45min to PC and an hour or so to load, enede up with a nice 250 rounds before the sun got good an up

but yes beagle, i too am so happy the weather has turned, its beatiful out today

[Beagle333]

This is the 8mm.... Lee 324-175R


These are the .45's..... Lee 452-252 SWC

[Beagle333]

And I pc'd some of the .45s

[skizzums]

i need to buy some of that pink

looks like your celebrating easter

[Smoke & Recoil]

Hey Beagle333...what's this PC stuff ? I ask because I have
no idea and if I do not ask, how do I learn ? Thank you.

[Beagle333]

Hey Beagle333...what's this PC stuff ? I ask because I have
no idea and if I do not ask, how do I learn ?

Hmmm.... this is probably one of the best threads to lead you to.http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=546226

and maybe this one too.
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=541059

[Beagle333]

i need to buy some of that pink
looks like your celebrating easter

Smoke4320 had a sale last week on these two colors.

[Beagle333]

Here's what some of the HP alloy went into, Mike! The NOE 360-345.
This oughta grow some shrooms when planted with a Whelen!

[Mike / Tx]

You know what those 45's will look similar to after impact, if poured out of that other alloy, well other than being brightly colored?

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Somethin close to this,

Just somethin to think about......

(Oh thats the Accurate 454280 C, but yours will be looking close to that by the way.)

Here's what some of the HP alloy went into, Mike! The NOE 360-345.
This oughta grow some shrooms when planted with a Whelen!

That Whelen might be a WEEEEEE bit much for it, but go ahead and give it a shot, then lets see whats left.

You do remember what the MP 358360's did don't you?

[Mike / Tx]

Here is a reminder just to jog your memory,

[Beagle333]

The only .45 I got is the Peacemaker. They ain't gonna get over 850 fps from it, if that much.

That Whelen might be a WEEEEEE bit much for it, but go ahead and give it a shot, then lets see whats left.

I might do some RedDot loads for it. I figure that HP won't handle top speed.

I'll make some of the MiHec C358-180's with the HP alloy next, and maybe the 359640 as well.

[Smoke & Recoil]

@ Beagle333
Thanks for the links, I find this very interesting as well as the pop-can gas
checks too. Do you have a link that covers the gas checks ? Theres a
Harbor Freight only 1 mile from me, I'll wander there tomorrow.

[skizzums]

for the pop-can checks, you need a freechex system or a "pat marlin" I thiks its called.

http://www.freechex.net/
http://www.patmarlins.com/Checkmaker...heck_Form.html

[FrankenMauser]

Those 8mm bullets have some funky striations on them.

I'm not sure what to think of it. ....Cherry chatter during cutting?

[Beagle333]

Contact this fellow for plain base pop can checks. He makes the best! Any caliber.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ighlight=plain

[Beagle333]

Those 8mm bullets have some funky striations on them.

I'm not sure what to think of it. ....Cherry chatter during cutting?

Racin' stripes!

I don't know what makes it like that. I just took that mold outta the box this morning. It has some lines in it though.

I'm planning on learning to paper patch the 8mm using these though.... so it won't really matter.

[FrankenMauser]

I don't think the striations would cause a problem. ...Just caught my eye.

[Mike / Tx]

Those 8mm bullets have some funky striations on them.

Just curious here if your referring to the slightly visible lines running the lenght?

Otherwise I think I now know now why I missed that hog Saturday morning...

On a side note, I was shooting at the range one afternoon when a fellow stepped up and told me my loads were severely hot as he looked at my fired cases laying on the table. I ask what on earth gave him that impression, and he said, "well you see that ring around the case there just below the shoulder, that is a definite sign of high pressure."

Well I looked at the case and sure enough there was a shiny ring right around the case just below the shoulder. Then I pulled 5 or 6 out of the MTM box and guess what, same shiny ring. I showed them to him and said I guess your right, they are about to pop just sitting in the box. It was just a shiny spot from the rattling around in that plastic box. He left with no further comments.

[Beagle333]

Otherwise I think I now know now why I missed that hog Saturday morning...

How do you miss a hog? A big ol' hog?


(I wish we had hogs!!!!)

[FrankenMauser]

Just curious here if your referring to the slightly visible lines running the lenght?

Yea, the lines running down the long axis of the bullet.


And.... your little story made me laugh.
I had a similar incident a couple years ago.

It was while I was working on my 'epic' .270 Win / 140 Partition load development (the process spanned 3 years, as I tested various powders in different atmospheric conditions and at different temperatures).

Some dude walks up behind me at the bench, while I'm single-loading a cartridge into the magazine (claw extractor that won't snap-over), he grabs 3 pieces of brass out of my ammo box, and says authoritatively, "Yep. That's what I thought ...."

I cut him off with a, "Hey, what the **** are you doing? Put my brass down."

He gave me a little look out of the corner of his eye as he tossed the brass onto the bench, and said, "See those shoulders? You need to clean the cosmoline out of your chamber, or you'll glue the cases in there when it cools down." ...as he walked off.

Yea. Okay. Let me get right to work, cleaning the cosmoline out of a Ruger 77 Mk II.....
The discoloration on the shoulder? ....Light amounts of lube residue that reacted with the styrofoam insert in my ammo boxes and slightly tarnished the brass.

[skizzums]

mike, I think you need to school these kids, they are saying cast HP's are a waste of lead......I find it offensive frankly
http://thefiringline.com/forums/show...=550847&page=2

I stayed out of it, didn't want to post your pics

[Mike / Tx]

Naaa no sense wasting time on trying to make the blind see the light...

Besides I wouldn't want to hijack that thread from it's original purpose.