Anybody make their own shot?

[Random 8]

that guy hooked you up for what you payed.with my little prototipe i got it to hot and the lead puffed up it to balls about 3/8''. i need a smaller mig tips or mine. it made some nice turkey shot tho. my ramp is steel, it will be aluminum on the full size one. i did fine putting neverseize on the ramp would make it nice and slick, the lead would not stick.

Apparently soapstone is the thing. Mine came with a couple of sticks of it, and it's mentioned in the manual. I've seen it in our weld shop at work, never knew what it was before.

 

[troy fairweather]

Apparently soapstone is the thing. Mine came with a couple of sticks of it, and it's mentioned in the manual. I've seen it in our weld shop at work, never knew what it was before.

ok good to know. i got plenty of soap stone. i don't use much shot but i'm not paying 50 bucks for 25 pounds. i load brass shells for my old hammered sxs shotgun and a 15ga hopkins & allen underhammer ML shot gun. i passed on a new 12 mec press last year for cheap, wish i did the deal id like to load for my montgomery ward m30 pump. maybe i can find a lee press cheap, or just get a new one.

 

[Random 8]

I would avoid the Lee press. They make functional ammunition, but it's very hard to get the crimps right. OK for light trap loads with a powder like Red Dot that isn't fussy about crimps, but not so much for field loads or colder temps. Watch the used sites for a Pacific/Hornady 155. Good unit, usually found for $50-100 and uses current Hornady or PW bushings. Used parts are pretty readily available, any spring, screw or bolt on the unit can be replaced from the HW store...no proprietary threads or sizes.

 

[GW Staar]

I must have Alzheimers!. I completely forgot that 9 years ago this month, I started a thread in AR15.com's reloading section on the Shannon Shotmaster Shotmaker that I had been given.....probably that same month! Egg all over face! I had found the factory manual, and another article on using it!.........so I've been sitting on this for 9 long years!

I rediscovered my old thread (in the archives) just googling "Shotmaster Shotmaker", and noticed that all the pictures were gone......the PhotoBucket fiasco. AR15 Thread.
So then I went to my hard drive looking to see if I still have the manual and how-to article I posted pictures of.....and found them.

I shared them on Cast Boolits yesterday, and will add them here shortly. Seems there must be a resurgence of interest in Shot Makers there and here. Price of bags of lead shot go up?

The search started when I visited with the friend who gave the Shannon tool to me, yesterday, and he doesn't want me to sell it. He wants to make it a community project......community means me and him together. He thinks I'm somewhat handy, compared to him. (Rolling Eyes) Translation: He thinks he'd be less likely to fail with, two brains, to make shot............so I guess I'm not going to be selling this after all.....sorry, Troy.......9 years.....can't believe I've even been on these gun sites that long.

 

[troy fairweather]

I must have Alzheimers!. I completely forgot that 9 years ago this month, I started a thread in AR15.com's reloading section on the Shannon Shotmaster Shotmaker that I had been given.....probably that same month! Egg all over face! I had found the factory manual, and another article on using it!.........so I've been sitting on this for 9 long years!

I rediscovered my old thread (in the archives) just googling "Shotmaster Shotmaker", and noticed that all the pictures were gone......the PhotoBucket fiasco. AR15 Thread.
So then I went to my hard drive looking to see if I still have the manual and how-to article I posted pictures of.....and found them.

I shared them on Cast Boolits yesterday, and will add them here shortly. Seems there must be a resurgence of interest in Shot Makers there and here. Price of bags of lead shot go up?

The search started when I visited with the friend who gave the Shannon tool to me, yesterday, and he doesn't want me to sell it. He wants to make it a community project......community means me and him together. He thinks I'm somewhat handy, compared to him. (Rolling Eyes) Translation: He thinks he'd be less likely to fail with, two brains, to make shot............so I guess I'm not going to be selling this after all.....sorry, Troy.......9 years.....can't believe I've even been on these gun sites that long.

that gives my excuse to build one lol. shot is about $2 a pound last i remember. there is reclaimed shot that is only a small % less. like i said i don't use much shot, mostly #6 for small game. keep use updated on your shot making.

 

[GW Staar]

that gives my excuse to build one lol. shot is about $2 a pound last i remember. there is reclaimed shot that is only a small % less. like i said i don't use much shot, mostly #6 for small game. keep use updated on your shot making.

Well then head to Cast Boolits......there's threads on doing just that. Good Luck!

What's really funny is.......I joined "Cast Boolits" over this........9 years......and I'm a nooby there! Hope the moral of this story is not, "don't follow your friends....everywhere...."