Insanity's odyssey in casting.

[Insanity]

Last night I smelted up 11 pounds of reclaimed pellet lead that the guys at Baker airguns gave me.

[KnifeMaker]

Last night I smelted up 11 pounds of reclaimed pellet lead that the guys at Baker airguns gave me.

Oh Yeah! Free lead!


Can't beat that with a stick.

[maraudinglizard]

Last night I smelted up 11 pounds of reclaimed pellet lead that the guys at Baker airguns gave me.

Oh yeah, that will last you for a while. You will have an endless supply of lead and casted pellets.

[triggertreat]

Last night I smelted up 11 pounds of reclaimed pellet lead that the guys at Baker airguns gave me.

That should last you at least a week

[Nvreloader]

That's good for 5000+ pellets, depending on the pellet weight you cast.............

Start slinging lead............

How about 1399 in that pile?

Don

[Insanity]

How about 1399 in that pile?

Don

We will see come the 14th lol

I am casting 23gn so about 3300 pellets. It should get me by for a little while lol. I think they go through a lot of pellets testing guns there so unless others are taking it I may have a good supply system.

[Insanity]

I have the tally I didnt count but weighed them so there is a bit of a tolerance here.

[avator]

2500

[Wayne52]

I have another pot ready to be used right now, just smelted it a little while ago, right now my F10 is playing catch up cause I've been shooting both my main pcp's quite a bit recently and I've been dragging along my tank out to the state land with me for some plinking with the .25 DAR.  It's the first time I've had that SCBA all the way down to 3K for probably a year at least.

[Insanity]

Wyane I know one day I will kinda match you're skills I am eyeballing a 250-41-fn bk2 mold it in HP may be a good hunting slug for the mrod. If anything it will be cheaper to cast and plink with.

[Insanity]

By weight I came up with 1400 pellets. Nverloader guessed the closest..

[Kinetic45^]

Just because I could buy the mold on sale for around $65 but not expecting much, I bought the http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?cPath=554_555&products_id=5323 which I sized from .255 to .251 and it is suprisingly accurate in an 80 FPE chokeless Marauder and my WAR 16" barreled WARP at 50 to 85 yards (haven't tried it at longer ranges).
Just goes to show that accuracy comes in supprising places. Casts very easy too, I was just popping them out of the mold and had a batch in no time.

[miksatx]

Just because I could buy the mold on sale for around $65 but not expecting much, I bought the http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?cPath=554_555&products_id=5323 which I sized from .255 to .251 and it is suprisingly accurate in an 80 FPE chokeless Marauder and my WAR 16" barreled WARP at 50 to 85 yards (haven't tried it at longer ranges).
Just goes to show that accuracy comes in supprising places. Casts very easy too, I was just popping them out of the mold and had a batch in no time.

Any pixs of your resizing setup and info of the equipment? I've looked at that bullet and always thought it might make a good replacement for my 6 ring slugs for my . 25 Talon setup. Never got into reloading for my PB so not a clue what was involved.

[Insanity]

Just because I could buy the mold on sale for around $65 but not expecting much, I bought the http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?cPath=554_555&products_id=5323 which I sized from .255 to .251 and it is suprisingly accurate in an 80 FPE chokeless Marauder and my WAR 16" barreled WARP at 50 to 85 yards (haven't tried it at longer ranges).
Just goes to show that accuracy comes in supprising places. Casts very easy too, I was just popping them out of the mold and had a batch in no time.

I think 53gn may be on the heavy side for my current setup but I'll keep them in mind.

[Kinetic45^]

I use the nice NOE sizer system
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/index.php?cPath=104

And mount it in a cheap Lee Precision press mounted upside down on the underside of my workbench (shop/search around, the really sell for $29, not the full price)
https://leeprecision.com/reloader-press.html

[Wayne52]

Here's my most recent cast for the 217-20-RF and they were all between 19.6 and 19.8 grains with most of them being right around 19.68 grains.

[Nvreloader]

Wayne
Rifle or pistol?

Looking good.................

Tia,
Don

[Wayne52]

Don that was in doors @15ft with my Crosman 150. I was headed for the woods soon after using the same pellet in my ATI Freedom, these pellets are extremely accurate through that rifle.  I'm shooting them at about 900fps for several shots before having to pump it up.  I prefer to be right at about 2800psi on the gauge though, that's where I have the scope sighted in the best. I did five consecutive shots in a coke can off the hood of my truck @55yds and they all hit home.  The coke can was stuck on pine branch spike so it was on it's side so to speak.

[Bob Pratl]

Here's my most recent cast for the 217-20-RF and they were all between 19.6 and 19.8 grains with most of them being right around 19.68 grains.

NICE! I'm still waiting for this mold to be available and I have been checking daily.

[miksatx]

I use the nice NOE sizer system
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/index.php?cPath=104

And mount it in a cheap Lee Precision press mounted upside down on the underside of my workbench (shop/search around, the really sell for $29, not the full price)
https://leeprecision.com/reloader-press.html

Thanks for sharing Carl.