Time to Cast Some REAL Bullets: Quick Question

Well pan lubing the REAL bullet is not working. When I pushed the bullets out they came out clean :mad: But oh well I'll just rub some lube in the grooves before loading. I guess thats just more time I get to spend at the range, which isn't a bad thing. I think the grooves are just too wide, that or I didn't let it cool enough.

LUBE: Beeswax, Parrafin, Mutton Tallow.
 
Were your bullets warm (nearly the same temp as your melted lube) before pouring in your liquid lube? You don't want to pour hot lube around room temp bullets. . . . at least it doesn't stick well for me that way. I sit my bullets in the oven while the lube is melting in the double boiler. Beeswax is pretty sticky.... it should have stuck to them.

And did you push the bullets out while the lube was still warm? Solid.... but still warm. It should have started to just slightly begin to pull away from the sides of the pan that everything is sitting in. (it shouldn't be completely cool)

If it won't stick to that big wide groove, you may have to make a cutter to push down over the bullet and then push the bullet out of the cutter.
I made one like this for my .357 bullets, but a bigger one of the same design would work for your REAL bullets too. You'd just push a piece of tubing or similar down over the bullet and cut it and the lube out, then push the bullet out of the tube.
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yeah the bullets were at room temp. and I think I did try to push them out too soon, the lube was still very pliable. I'll try again, if that doesn't work I'll figure out something to make a cutter out of. Thanks for the tips beagle.
 
I'll try again, if that doesn't work I'll figure out something to make a cutter out of.
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Somewhere along the length of an old golf club handle.... it will be .58 Inside Diameter. ;)

(or at least some of them..... I saw a fellow make a beautiful "cake cutter" from an old flea market putter handle for his .62 cal):)
 
what in the heck did we do before FORUMS??
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It was an old pot-bellied stove with a coffee pot on top and half a dozen old rickety chairs, one with a busted out wicker seat. Mine was at the old Four Flags Trading Post on East Lincoln in Wichita; seems I always got the chair with the busted seat.
 
It was an old pot-bellied stove with a coffee pot on top and half a dozen old rickety chairs, one with a busted out wicker seat. Mine was at the old Four Flags Trading Post on East Lincoln in Wichita; seems I always got the chair with the busted seat.
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...and man, do I miss those days.
We nick-named these 'old pot bellied stove' meetings 'liars club' meetings.

But I can say, as a young man attending some of these 'liars club' meetings, keeping my mouth shut and pouring coffee for some of the 'ole-timers ', I sure did learn from them.

Thinking back, learned a few things I won't repeat. :o
 
I "cookie cut" with an old T/C Luber. And yes the bullets are warm and the lube is still warm too. The lubed bullets will drop out the top when the tube fills and you can store them in a Wal-Mart plastic container. A friend of mine uses his speed loader to "cut" his bullets out of the pie tin. Works for him.....
 
"Skuttlebutt"

Was the name for a bucket half filled with water into which sailor's discarded cigarettes when the smoking lamp was lighted.

A natural place for conversations.

Thus the term "skuttlebutt" now applies to the information that was available in the pipeline, no matter the source or accuracy.

I was always able to be a source but my accuracy was always in question.

I am happy to continue in that tradition.
 
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