Cast my first bullets

[Bfh_auto]

My neighbor/friend casts for a 45-70 and told me to buy whatever mold and he'd help me.
I choose a .310 247 NOE for starting.
The powder coat bullet design makes them fall from the mold like rain.
I'll be separating and coating them this week.
Up next is a 210sp and a .358 200fn.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Uh.... That first sentence needs some translating, but ...

Good deal on the first casting ! Pics ?

 

[forrest r]

Seems like you prefer the heavier bullets.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Uh.... That first sentence needs some translating, but ...

Good deal on the first casting ! Pics ?

Cast instead of cars.
Sometimes when I hit the space bar everything goes to garbage.
I'll have pics tonight after I sort them.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Seems like you prefer the heavier bullets.

Cast bullets go slow. So I want weight behind them.
I'm feeding a Krag and my friend will be feeding a 300 whisper.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Yep. With cast bullets, momentum is your friend.

Slow and heavy gives penetration. Penetration transfers energy. Transferred energy, and holes, makes things dead.

 

[forrest r]

Yup I get the heavy thing.

But I do run a lot of my cast bullets @ jacketed bullet speeds or faster.

Subsonic for a bo is 1 thing. Calling nasa to figure out the drops is another.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Yup I get the heavy thing.

But I do run a lot of my cast bullets @ jacketed bullet speeds or faster.

Subsonic for a bo is 1 thing. Calling nasa to figure out the drops is another.

I have a ladder sight. It'll be fun

 

[Bfh_auto]

Here's the pile of good ones. Separated 250-251 gr.
There were 23 that weighed in between 249.9 and 249.0.
14 got rejected for deformities on the base.

 

[forrest r]

A step ladder will work but a tripod with 2 way adjustments would be be better

 

[Rod47]

Not seeing lube grooves. Are you paper patching?

 

[Bfh_auto]

Not seeing lube grooves. Are you paper patching?

I plan on powder coating.
The smooth side is supposed to fill out better.
I figured I'm a newbie. So I may as well stack the odds in my favor.

 

[Bfh_auto]

I figured out acetone and powder coat gives a heavy, uneven coating.
Every where near me is sold out of air soft BBS. So I tried tumbling the next batch. It gives a light coating that can't be scratched with my thumb nail. So I'm going to try them.

 

[GoldieMI]

Every where near me is sold out of air soft BBS

I don't use them for powdercoating...never needed them

 

[Bfh_auto]

I don't use them for powdercoating...never needed them

How thick of a coating do you get?
I used white. It has a hard coating. But doesn't look very white.

 

[GoldieMI]

I use Eastwood Light Blue (used to be Ford Blue) swirled in cool whip container.
it turns out nicely and does a nice one pass coat
turns out like a candy coat after the toaster oven