Reeder Custom Guns - Casting without a hardness tester

MTM
Casting without a hardness tester
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 20:55

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Here’s what a .454/300 grain bullet looks like after 15 pretty hard hits with a 2 pound sledge, on an anvil. It took the 3rd or 4th hit before it was no longer loadable. It ended up the size of two nickles, with no cracks, fragments or splits.

Casting without a hardness tester - MTM, 2021-02-10, 20:55
- I would take a bullet of known hardness .. - Jim Taylor, 2021-02-10, 21:07
  - Cast performance vs home cast - MTM, 2021-02-11, 14:06
    - If you can smash it that far beforre it cracks - Jim Taylor, 2021-02-11, 14:43
  - I will try a cast Performance Bullet - MTM, 2021-02-11, 08:28
  - It's never mattered much to me. Is what it is. - WB, 2021-02-11, 07:46
    - I am sort of the same mind. And I worry when I agree - Gary Reeder, 2021-02-11, 16:57
    - In the past I tried a lot of things also ... - Jim Taylor, 2021-02-11, 08:02
      - I was thinking of using a little heavier for cal. - WB, 2021-02-11, 09:06