School me on bullet casting

by Murphy , Thursday, December 22, 2011, 22:33 (4719 days ago) @ Rod M

RodM,

While there are many on the board here with tons of experience in casting bullets, let me make a suggestion.

I've been casting over 25 years now. I had no mentor...nothing. Just a strong desire to get me some of them Thompson #358156's Skeeter Skelton was always talking about, and some 'Keith' .44 bullets.

Looked like the only way I was every gonna get the real deal was to learn to cast my own. Armed with a hard head and a Lyman book on bullet casting my adventure began. I have found great reward in casting my own. Not just in savings on bullets, but in the joy of handcrafting my own handgun and rifle loads and hunting with them.

One website I strongly recommend is http://castboolits.gunloads.com/ I learned more there about casting in the first 18 months I was on the board than I learned the prior 23 years on my own.

Murphy

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