Making a temperature controller
Lead melts around 600 degrees. My melting pot has a basic thermostat marked 1-10. It’s nice to know how hot your lead is when casting, as it aids in consi...
Category: Reloading
IM with Stef
I just had the following IM conversation with my 19 year old daughter: Stef: Why did you order a box of lead? Me: for making bullets! Me: is it heavy? Stef: ver...
Adventures in Pan Lubing Boolits
So the next step after casting boolits is to apply lube to them. There are several ways to do this. I decided to try pan lubing them. Supposedly that’s as...
Cast my first boolits tonight!
I got 69 usable .45 cal 200 grain SWC and 23 usable .45 cal 255 grain SWC done before the on-call phone went off and I had to stop. It was 9:00 anyway. They loo...
About to start casting…
Time to dust off this blog. Is this thing on? I’ve been reloading my own ammunition for .45 ACP, .30-06 Springfield, .270 Winchester and now .45 Colt for ...