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Namerifrats

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I started making some videos since last year has seen a lot of new gun owners, and new people coming into reloading and casting. Thought I'd try to make some material to help answer many of the more common questions. These will be on reloading (within YT policies as best I can), casting, and other misc firearm content. I've seen questions here before about lead, ww, sourcing, etc. Thought I'd drop a couple links in to hopefully help any new comers that may stop in.

 
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I've spent many a day sorting wheel weights. My last 5 buckets had about half a bucket of zinc and over a bucket of steel and plastic weights. Thanks Obama.
 
I've been lucky. I may last 8 buckets were around 70% lead. Plenty of steel and zinc though. Not like it was 14 years ago when I started casting. Think my buckets then were around 85% lead.
 
I came into about 60 pounds of Babbitt so my preference is range scrap these days. Most times I won’t have to add depending on the make up of the scrap. If there are a lot of shotgun slugs in the batch they come out pretty soft. Towards the bottom of my buckets where lead shot collects it makes darn good alloy. No sorting required, but hold onto your source or the place will get overrun.
 
Yeah I use a lot of range scrap too. Getting worried about that source as their are a lot of people starting to try casting zinc bullets. Not looking forward to the berms getting scatteted with that shit. Sorting WW is one thing.....will be a pain trying to sort zinc bullets out of lead bullets.
 
Thanks. Sub'd to your channel.
 
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Yeah I use a lot of range scrap too. Getting worried about that source as their are a lot of people starting to try casting zinc bullets. Not looking forward to the berms getting scatteted with that shit. Sorting WW is one thing.....will be a pain trying to sort zinc bullets out of lead bullets.
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GREAT VIDEO BTW!!!

Stock up now. I cast and load in cycles. Load development, alloy tweaks, confirm accuracy, batch alloy then load 3-5000 rounds. This is a 308 year. Going to try to get into the 2000 FPS range and 1.5 MOA at 100 yards.
 
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Pink_Vapor said:
I've a couple hundred pounds of lead, now's probably time to get casting equipment.
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I hear some of it is hard to find currently. Especially the cheaper molds amd furnaces like Lee, great molds btw. All these new gun owners, and many existing ones cantfknd ammo. So they think, hey I'll load my own. Then they hit another brick wall finding dies and components for popular calibers. Then a lot of them decide some of the component prices are too high, and decide to cast. Seeing tons of the same questions over in over and various reloading/casting groups I'm in on FB. Thought I'd make some videos to try and answer some of the most common questions that I know the answers to. I have a list of about 45-50 more topics to try and cover...lol. Some of the questions are scary. Hopefully nobody gets hurt usong Joe Blow's pet load from on the internet, or subing primers and not adjusting powder loads appropriately.
 
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Bigbore5 said:
There's going to be alot of blown up guns soon.
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BB5. I almost had this happen to me on my second load in 357 Mag years ago. Found out the hard way that a cast 180 in 357 magnum and a SRP and 6 grains of Unique pierced primers and singed my facial hairs. Could have been worse. Same load functions great out of a pistol. But it was too much to make the ride in a rifle.
 
Bluejay75 said:
BB5. I almost had this happen to me on my second load in 357 Mag years ago. Found out the hard way that a cast 180 in 357 magnum and a SRP and 6 grains of Unique pierced primers and singed my facial hairs. Could have been worse. Same load functions great out of a pistol. But it was too much to make the ride in a rifle.
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Your still over max at 6gr with a 180. Srp is about equal to a spm. I'm gonna guess you topped 40,000psi easily. You got lucky. A bunch of these newbie loaders who don't have a mentor and don't know guns won't be. Especially if they rely on some of the internet jokers for load advice. I've seen some down right dangerous load data passed off.
I load for my 353 Casull pretty heavy, but the other day I had to step in when someone was trying to give Taffins 353 data out as okay for a blackhawk! Those loads aren't even safe for a 357 Redhawk or any other sixshot cylinder either. Some push 60,000psi!
 
Namerifrats said:
I hear some of it is hard to find currently. Especially the cheaper molds amd furnaces like Lee, great molds btw. All these new gun owners, and many existing ones cantfknd ammo. So they think, hey I'll load my own. Then they hit another brick wall finding dies and components for popular calibers. Then a lot of them decide some of the component prices are too high, and decide to cast. Seeing tons of the same questions over in over and various reloading/casting groups I'm in on FB. Thought I'd make some videos to try and answer some of the most common questions that I know the answers to. I have a list of about 45-50 more topics to try and cover...lol. Some of the questions are scary. Hopefully nobody gets hurt usong Joe Blow's pet load from on the internet, or subing primers and not adjusting powder loads appropriately.
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I’m pretty confident with it. Been reloading since ‘99, and have made Babbitt bearings for old machinery. It’d be fun to shoot the 44mags cheap.
 
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