Who Here Shoots Lead?

Do You Shoot Lead?

  • Yep, for many reasons including me being cool and not a sissy

    Votes: 86 90.5%

  • No only jacketed or plated for me, I'm a sissy (nose upturned)

    Votes: 6 6.3%

  • I don't but am thinking about it

    Votes: 3 3.2%
  • Total voters
    95
  • Poll closed .
I don't need to be breathing lead...
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If you're shooting in an indoor range with poor ventilation, you'll be getting your lead from the lead styphnate in your primers irregardless of the bullet's composition. Outdoors, no problem with whatever bullet.

Don
 
Lead

I cast and reload for almost all my pistols and for my 45-70 and 458 win mag. The 458 I use 45-90 load data and cast a 500 gr bullet for it.
 
Yeah that's the problem with indoor ranges, still and all cleaning out leaded barrels and forcing cones is a pain.
 
I shoot a whole lot of lead. I cast it myself. I load for all handgun calibers except for 9mm Mak, and my wife's .32 auto. (Both are too hard to find the brass afterwards.) The Mak gets steel case stuff. I do not shoot it that much. My wife shoots her pistol about 3 times a year. I pick up a box of ammo for her gun every other pay day. So there is a large supply of ammo for her gun.

I am in the process of deciding on which mold to get for my 10mm Long Slide, and Browning .380 1911 Black Label.
 
I am really surprised at the number of reloaders who shoot lead bullets .
I see so many who believe firing one lead bullet will ruin their gun and coat the barrel and chambers 1/4 inch deep in lead.
First thing I did , after buying a Ruger Blackhawk 357 magnum , was buy a Lyman mould and hit up the local tire shop for a bucket of wheel weights ... that was 1968 .

Awesome guy's !
Gary
 
I shoot lead in my 1902 Iver 38 S&W revolver, as well as lead 45 Colt I cast and reload for a Vaquero, an Italian 1873 SA clone and a Winchester 1892 lever gun, all three 45 Colt. Thats it... but when I get more into reloading I will probably expand that to other weapons.
 
I love to cast and shoot lead. Casting is about as a relaxing hobby as I could have. I cast and load for 44mag-45 colt-45acp-357 mag-30-30 win-9mm-10mm-and going to start on a 7-08. Cast in my rifles and handguns are proven to be more accurate to me in rifle or pistol. Can't find wheel weights so I hit the cast boolit forum and order a 100 lbs at a time. molds are from Lee to NOE to Accurate. Lyman 450 and RCBS2 lube sizers. And I thought reloading was going to break my bank first.
 
Lead bullets...more of the same

I have a number revolvers that have never had a jacketed bullet shot in them on my watch. The BP breech loaders are kept running with cast bullets. I can cast HP bullets in 38/357, 40 S&W, 45 ACP and 44 Special/44 Magnum, Also, working on making a Ruger American 308 a dedicated cast bullet firearm.
 
Im up to a dozen molds now, just got a lee 401 Tc mold for my wife 40. So far the results are really good, sized to .402 they are quite accurate in her glock 27, this has been a really easy work up with the bullets this mold throws. Digging it.

Now Im really wondering if I should buy a mold for my 32acp use. Accurate hasa nice 87 grain mold for 32 acp but for near doublethe lee molds price.....hmm....
 
Nice!

I just bought a used Glock 23 for $100:) You shoot lead through your Glock? I feel like I’ve researched it before and decided I didn’t need a new barrel and would just shoot lead thru the hexagonal rifling... I need to research it again.
 
I still shoot lead in pistols but have no plans on ever using lead in any rifle I own.

Used to actually have a casting business and sold mountains of Keith style bullets. Only make them for myself now.
 
I shoot jacketed bullets for deer hunting only. Everything else is lead. For rabbit fart target loads, I used swaged HBWC and everything else is HyTek Coated Lead. Shot plated for the longest time mainly because it was so clean to shoot. The HeTek Coated lead is just as clean, just as accurate and a whole lot cheaper. Also, I can push Coated Lead as fast as jacketed using a lighter charge of powder.
 
I started shooting in the mid 50's when my uncle gifted me a Daisy (scoped no less!). Then it was .22s, shotguns, then center fires.

I've been casting and hand loading since early 70s - tens of thousands of them, in just about anything/everything.
 
PaulB, excellent post...my feelings mirror yours and have for the past 62 years of "loading my own". Rod

I've been reloading and shooting for 64 years. With some exceptions, I'd have to estimate that I shot my own home cast bullets probably 85 percent of the time in my reloads. That's for rifles and handguns. I loaded 175 gr. cast in the 30-30 for deer and they worked just fine. Same bullet in the 06 made for good target practice. Worked just fine in the .308 as well. I almost never use factory ammo in my handguns. In fact the only factory handgun ammo I have right now is what is in my CCW gun. Frankly, I would much prefer my hand load with a 158 gr. cast SWC.
There is something about being able to make your own bullets. If you have a supply of primers, the proper powder and the metal to cast, this bring about a certain feeling of independence. it's a good feeling.
Paul B.
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