I got a new mold this morning.... a Lyman 311291. And a bag of gas checks. It's time to make somethin' for the Winchester to eat.
I managed to end up with about 250 of these little torpedoes. And it weren't easy either! I'm used to my nice easy .357 boolits and these are a whole different animal. I must have cast and recast about 150 of em before I added some harder alloy and then started making nice looking sharp edges and square gas shanks. My regular alloy just wasn't getting there. But I had a box of 18bhn scrap that I bought off somebody a while back (he sold his culls and sprues) and I put about 3 pounds of that in the pot with 15 of mine, and the boolits started dropping. I was watching my temps closely on these too, and they were cast between 700 and 750 degrees.
They look like lots of fun though! I'm all ready to put checks on em and see how they fly.
I managed to end up with about 250 of these little torpedoes. And it weren't easy either! I'm used to my nice easy .357 boolits and these are a whole different animal. I must have cast and recast about 150 of em before I added some harder alloy and then started making nice looking sharp edges and square gas shanks. My regular alloy just wasn't getting there. But I had a box of 18bhn scrap that I bought off somebody a while back (he sold his culls and sprues) and I put about 3 pounds of that in the pot with 15 of mine, and the boolits started dropping. I was watching my temps closely on these too, and they were cast between 700 and 750 degrees.
They look like lots of fun though! I'm all ready to put checks on em and see how they fly.