Reeder Custom Guns - you cast like I do. The first bullets I put on a vise

Gary Reeder
you cast like I do. The first bullets I put on a vise
Saturday, March 20, 2021, 14:56

and give it a good tap with a hammer. If it mashes it is too soft so a bit more linotype. If it shatters, then too much linotype, put some more wheel weights in. Put the first few bullets on the scale. If they are within 2 or 3 grains, they are fine. The really wrinkled ones go back in the pot. The slightly wrinkled ones get sized and shot. If they are perfect with no wrinkles I know I did something wrong, but I save them and tell people all my bullets look like that.

I tried water quenching them by dropping them from the mold into a 5 gallon bucket but after quenching myself completely along with everything within 10 feet I gave up on that.

This casting bullets can be fun after I learned to take all the casting books and rules and using them to start a fire in one of our wood stoves. I make a lot less mistakes when I do that.

Drug my tired depressed butt out to the old garage - WB, 2021-03-19, 21:58
- I really enjoy casting all of it casting sizing lubing - Lynn, 2021-03-22, 11:22
- That's like the post office if it fits it ships (nm) - Joe Pollock, 2021-03-20, 14:44
- my favorite saying that I lived by for almost 25 years - Gary Reeder, 2021-03-20, 11:42
  - The Dire Straits? (nm) - Paul, 2021-03-20, 14:56
    - yup (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2021-03-20, 15:03
      - that was of course while I was still in radio. My dear old - Gary Reeder, 2021-03-20, 15:07
- Thanks to Gary and all the information the Misfits - DinCA, 2021-03-20, 07:18
  - By just being themselves my elders - WB, 2021-03-20, 07:39
    - you cast like I do. The first bullets I put on a vise - Gary Reeder, 2021-03-20, 14:56
      - Bullets - Clint H, 2021-03-21, 10:48
      - I floated small sponges on the water, dropped the bullets - Jim Taylor, 2021-03-20, 15:06
    - Just remember it is sorta dangerous .. - Jim Taylor, 2021-03-20, 08:05
      - I cast standing as I don’t fancy a lap of lead. - WB, 2021-03-20, 09:14
- I find bullet casting to be theraputic. - Jim Taylor, 2021-03-20, 06:09
  - I had a light bulb out and no replacements - WB, 2021-03-20, 06:28
    - My light bulb is pretty dim (nm) - steve todd, 2021-03-20, 13:49