Reeder Custom Guns - Casting Bullets

Down below a ways I posted I have been casting bullets for over 55 years. Thinking about it, it's closer to 65 years. My Dad started me casting round balls when I was about 10 years old.

By the time I was 15 I was casting bullets for .44-40 rifle, .357 Magnum and .38 Special, .44 Magnum and .44 Special, and .30 caliber rifle.

I melted the lead in a cast iron skillet on the kitchen stove and used a Lyman lead dipper to pour the molten lead into the molds. One summer I cast well over 200 pounds of lead. We were shooting several thousand rounds a month in those years.

I sized the bullets in a Lyman drive-through die, driving the bullets through with a plastic mallet. I still have the sizing die though I have not used it in decades.

I loaded the ammo with a Lyman 310 Tool. I bought my first reloading press 1970 and thought I was really getting up there in the reloading world! It was in the 1980's when I bought a Lee 10 lb. lead pot and then a little later I bought a Lyman 20 pound. I still use it.

Every once in awhile someone gets freaked out about lead and starts off on health and all that.

Use a little common sense. People been making projectiles from lead since before Jesus. How to handle it and yourself ain't a secret. We have thousands of years of learning about it behind us.

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Hurricanes during a conservative administration are because of global warming, fossil fuels, etc.

Hurricanes during a liberal administration are an act of nature. And, you should donate to a liberal charity that skims 94% off the top

Earthquakes during a conservative administration are caused from fracking.

Earthquakes during a liberal administration require a $100 Million dollar research conducted by someone on the left.

Oh yeah, I got off topic...

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in today's professional workplace safety procedures. OSHA knows best right?! Thankfully in our state my industry is not literally dictated by OSHA procedures but we have a State Dept. mediator. I've seen three inspectors in 36 years. If you are directly involved in OSHA compliance it will effect your perspective, you can't help it.

At work we do have a written safety program and protocol that is followed. It does have mostly practical safe practices since we have such a varied array of ages, intellect, and personalities to corral into a workforce. Ditto for the Military branches. I'm actually responsible for the monkey that is in charge of our safety program. We get a big discount on our insurance for the organized and maintained program. I follow it at work too. I have to set an example. Oddly Safety program managers Nationally have an astonishing poor personal safety record overall. They are very prone to mishaps and broken bones. That is interesting. Karma?

At home I use my knowledge accumulated over some 57 years and my increasing sense of self preservation and disdain for pain and Dr. visits. However in my younger years I have done some less than healthful things like casting in the house. But I did not do it all that much, just learning. But my generation was the one raised in high lead exposure and chewing on lead paint window sills. Folks make millions mitigating lead exposure and it seems as much of the initial testing may have been skewed for financial and regulatory gain. It's common knowledge that waterfowl poisoning was a total sham, yet we still have it and more. If that bristles you try to do your own objective research, then prove me wrong if you feel the need.

As GNR said no one gets out alive. Your last day, whenever that is, you will have memories and regrets, if you are blessed.

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I actually put together a site specific safety program that was later used by the company I worked for as a blueprint for other job sites site specific programs. At a class I attended for my training I remember what the instructor told me during a lunch break.
“Your safety program should be designed in a way that will protect the dumbest sumbich on your crew”. Over the next 12 years I learned he spoke the truth.

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Casting Bullets

But Liberals play on those without common sense..

Me too. However I'm empathetic of anyone trained

In an earlier life I was a safety professional!