Newby on the block... well, to casting anyways.

[Back_Roads]

 Once you are past the testing phase, it will be easier to gain on your cast ammo inventory

[avator]

Yep... I figured so.. plus I'll be able to know where to increase my efforts.

[EdinGa]

BSA barrels love the 22 BBTs. My Prod and Cayden do too. The only gun I have that doesn't shoot them well is a 362.


I've got a buddy with a woodworking shop that's obsessed with cedar. I get all my fluxing sawdust from him.

Both my 362s have been converted to .177

One of mine has been converted to .25. The other is still .22. I haven't been impressed with either of the factory .22 barrels I've owned.

[Wayne52]

I shot some more of my wad cutters this morning

[avator]

Wayne..
I'm gonna try some of the waddies after the BT but I'm not too optimistic.
The may work good in the 2240 CO2 stubbies but I'm not going to buy a mold just for guns that I don't shoot real often. They mostly ride with me on the mower for snake duty.

[avator]

My compartment tray is full of those boattails so I swapped out the pins for the shortest pin. Not quite a flat nose but almost. They drop at 30.20 give or take. I put the first 10 out in the Urban mag.
Yep Yep Yep.

The bad news is... neither the FD-PCP or Betty Lou's WSMR Maximus liked anything I cast real well. There is room for tuning in both but that goes against what I normally do. I usually find the pellet to match the tune as opposed to tuning the gun for a specific pellet. But I may have to change my ways for these 2. They are 2 guns that I would have alot of trouble parting with. I'm sure Betty Lou would have something to say about her WSMR being sold.   

[Insanity]

That's the cup point pin.

[Spacebus]

That's the cup point pin.

Might be the FN pins, but they are set too high. This happened to me the first time I tried to cast with the FN pins on my 45 mold. It helped show me that all the pins were a little bit off from each other.

[Firewalker]

Agree with longer pins, those slugs and pellets with the longest pins fly the best for me.

[avator]

Seem to be just fine for me... admittedly I haven't cast a bunch of them yet.. Betty Lou isn't feeling too good and I want to spend some time in the house with her to make sure she's ok.
She's gone to lay down now so I'll slip back out if she goes to sleep. We're sure it's just a bug... nothing serious.

[avator]

They do drop out of the mold easier.

[Insanity]

That's the cup point pin.

Might be the FN pins, but they are set too high. This happened to me the first time I tried to cast with the FN pins on my 45 mold. It helped show me that all the pins were a little bit off from each other.

If it's not perfectly flat it's the cup point.

[avator]

That's the cup point pin.

Might be the FN pins, but they are set too high. This happened to me the first time I tried to cast with the FN pins on my 45 mold. It helped show me that all the pins were a little bit off from each other.

If it's not perfectly flat it's the cup point.

Yes, It has a slight cup and all 4 are equal. I'm sure that's by design.

[Spacebus]

That's the cup point pin.

Might be the FN pins, but they are set too high. This happened to me the first time I tried to cast with the FN pins on my 45 mold. It helped show me that all the pins were a little bit off from each other.

If it's not perfectly flat it's the cup point.

If the FN pins are set too deep into the mold you will get dimpled slugs that are not as deep as the cup point, but not flat either. I had this happen to me, but easy enough to rectify the issue by adjusting pin depth.

Does anyone use their cup point pins? I've been thinking about trying some and seeing what the expansion was like compared to the full HP pin.

[Insanity]

That's the cup point pin.

Might be the FN pins, but they are set too high. This happened to me the first time I tried to cast with the FN pins on my 45 mold. It helped show me that all the pins were a little bit off from each other.

If it's not perfectly flat it's the cup point.

If the FN pins are set too deep into the mold you will get dimpled slugs that are not as deep as the cup point, but not flat either. I had this happen to me, but easy enough to rectify the issue by adjusting pin depth.

Does anyone use their cup point pins? I've been thinking about trying some and seeing what the expansion was like compared to the full HP pin.

I see what you are saying that can happen. That's not how it read what he described.

[avator]

With the accuracy I got from the Urban with these, I'm not going to change a thing. Besides, it's not my mold so I'm not inclined to 'tinker' with it... 

[Insanity]

With the accuracy I got from the Urban with these, I'm not going to change a thing. Besides, it's not my mold so I'm not inclined to 'tinker' with it... 

You won't hurt anything by adjusting the pin depth.

[avator]

With the accuracy I got from the Urban with these, I'm not going to change a thing. Besides, it's not my mold so I'm not inclined to 'tinker' with it... 

You won't hurt anything by adjusting the pin depth.

Maybe not but, I still ain't gonna do it...  This will most likely be the other .22 mold I buy, I'll tinker with mine.

[Insanity]

With the accuracy I got from the Urban with these, I'm not going to change a thing. Besides, it's not my mold so I'm not inclined to 'tinker' with it... 

You won't hurt anything by adjusting the pin depth.

Maybe not but, I still ain't gonna do it...  This will most likely be the other .22 mold I buy, I'll tinker with mine.

Lol if you seen how I adjust mine you would not be so concerned.

[avator]

With the accuracy I got from the Urban with these, I'm not going to change a thing. Besides, it's not my mold so I'm not inclined to 'tinker' with it... 

You won't hurt anything by adjusting the pin depth.

Maybe not but, I still ain't gonna do it...  This will most likely be the other .22 mold I buy, I'll tinker with mine.

Lol if you seen how I adjust mine you would not be so concerned.

It's like grandma used to always say... it's yours, wash it as fast as you want.