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Hope you can make it!Im interested. I have been casting my own, but there is always something I can learn.
I will need to check my calendar, there might be a shoot I already signed up for on that weekend.
Just saw this now. Awesome.I'm IN. I dont use PayPal, so I will text my dad and ask him to send you payment.
I am interested.
As per the original post and the invitation for questions:
- Can you estimate start up costs?
- Approximately how much would it cost to add additional calibers? Right now I load six different diameter bullets.
- Is it safe to do in a somewhat enclosed basement?
- How "clumsiness proof" is casting?
Like guns being always loaded treat lead as always heavy and hot.I am interested.
As per the original post and the invitation for questions:
- Can you estimate start up costs?
- Approximately how much would it cost to add additional calibers? Right now I load six different diameter bullets.
- Is it safe to do in a somewhat enclosed basement?
- How "clumsiness proof" is casting?
I been waiting on a deal on a lube/sizer for now I just pan lube. i may pick up one of the silicone pans and try that.Definitely get a lube/sizer if you will be casting a lot (you can find techniques online that people use to lube in bulk). I lube my bullets by melting the lube and dipping them. I then run them through a sizer that removed the excess lube. I can tell you, it is a pain in the a**. Once in a while I will drop a bullet in there and it gets covered in lube. Grabbing a bullet by the tip with latex gloves is a little slippery.
I only do that because I reload around 60-100 at a time for the Sharps. When you swipe the bore in between shots, you can spend a long time at the range just shooting 50 rounds.
I'm planning on stepping up production and I will get a lube sizer.
Received! Thank you!Payment sent.
Thanks for running this.
Look at minute 1:20.
What is he adding to the bullets and why is he baking them?
Interesting. I never coated bullets.He’s tumbling the bullets in powder coatingthen baking the coating on.
It’s a decent method of coating and guys seem to like it. I don’t like the fact that it doesn’t cure and heat can melt it again. There’s a lot of heat in a barrel. It’s just weird. Not to mention powder coat can be made with a ton of different types of paint, who knows what’s what health wise.
the Hi-Tek coating was designed to coat bullets and when baked it’s cured solid. You can use a torch to melt the lead out of the coating, leaving a shell behind.
To each his own and I encourage you to try both. We will be using Hi-Tek at the seminar.
Sure can. Couple guidelines. Plain used cast are good to say 1500 FPS with accuracy. Maybe a little more or less depending on alloy, twist and pressure. You need a gas check bullet for higher speeds to 1800 to 200 again depending on the above factors. Over that It's best to get into something like paper patching. Basically wrapping the bullet in a paper "jacket" At that point guys have shot lead at 3000FPS with hunting accuracy.Ok here comes a dumb question..... can you rifle bullets like a .308?
I load 9mm, 38sp and 357 so this is still off interest. Thx Pete
It's all the rage now. Most of the commercial casters are using Hi-Tek and Federal offers a coated bullet now. CCI has their coated 22s for the holidays Red/GreenInteresting. I never coated bullets.
Not at all. This class is from basic to advanced.Very interested in going. I have never casted. However, I have watched a few videos of it, find it very interesting and would love to learn more. Will lack of experience limit me or prevent me from taking class?
these events NEED beginners ! Depending on your location if you sign up I can give you some lead and you can pic up my lead donation to the class!Very interested in going. I have never casted. However, I have watched a few videos of it, find it very interesting and would love to learn more. Will lack of experience limit me or prevent me from taking class?
Awesome man. Thank you!I’m in...payment sent sir.
I’m also bringing a bucket of wheel weights and some pewter and lead flashing to throw in the pot and a few door prizes as well. I can only take so much with me to Indiana when I make the final move the week after the seminar.
Awesome man. Thank you!
just leave All your cool guns with me too please.
these events NEED beginners ! Depending on your location if you sign up I can give you some lead and you can pic up my lead donation to the class!
Sadly, but at the same time happily (for them), most of them are already in The Heartland. First thing I bought when I moved the fiancee out there was a big Liberty safe! The next trip out, i brought everything I wasn't going to use for CMP matches this year...stuffed them all in the very front of the uHaul for the risky drive through communist territory.
Also, certainly not trying to tell you how to run your thread, but maybe update the attendee list when you get a second so it doesn't look like there are more instructors than students, lol. I know I was surprised how many people showed up last year, but remember being intimidated in the thread by how few I thought were actually going to be there.