Finished some 38 specials with a new mold. Range time is next on the list.

I love those wide flat nose bullets! I wish you could find them to buy as easily as the standard SWC designs.

Loaded and tested some 35Rem with IMR4895 and Speer 220gr HotCor's

Loaded and tested some 7mm-08 with H4350 and 140gr Partitions

Loaded and tested some cheap AR10 loads....WC846 with pulled 180gr SP's....got 3 shots to go 1,1". I'm happy with that considering the components

Shot my 350 legend with factory and found one it liked
Shot some 7mm tcu I loaded and found a decent combo

Boy oh boy. That's just why I ordered this mold from NOE moulds out of Provo Utah. They have this mold in a gas check profile too.

Got my casting machine work station setup today with the help of a short piece of 2x6 a 28x49 inch pallet and a sheet of 24x36 galvinized metal along with some 1x3's for legs. Turned out 360 9mm and 500 38/357

Finished casting the 38/357, 9mm, & the 45acp. Just under 7k. Average 2500 of each.154 pounds of alloy.

You the man nitro. Those look great

This may be a crazy question.
But what is the purpose of powder coating is it the identify different loads.
And with a twist of a barrel will it not take it off?
Just curious.

I coat to prevent lead coating in my rifles. Those are awesome Mr Nitroexpress

Ok. Makes since .

Nitro, do you sell bullets? You should think about it if not. A little side business....

[img]https://i.imgur.com/DdbCoIr.jpg?1[/img] out of 405 rounds 30/30 / 6.5 creedmoor, / 9mm

Poured 405 rounds of 9mm, 6.5 creed, 30/30

Hi trailer. No, no sales for me. I did the retail sporting goods business for 40 years. Mostly jacketed from the usual suspects, Speer, Hornady, PPU, an so forth. These will be part of my barter stash. Never know when money becomes good only for that toilet paper that can't be found in the stores any more. It will be amazing how fast a supply of lead can be used up. About time to order some super hard alloy from Roto Metals to alloy up my next 500 pounds of lead bricks.

Nitro : do you know of a source/method cheaper than ordering from rotometal for obtaining elemental tin? I think I can handle the bulk of things through wheel weights and pure lead from recycling places. But I’d like to source tin for cheaper than freaking $33/lb. I want to hit 20:1 or similar

I'll tell ya scout, I know how hard it is to find. I've only found two places to get tin that I can trust to be tin. First is Roto. It's high but I've not found another source that's commercial and a business that's got it in stock when you need it. The other place I've gotten tin, and for a lower price is on the website castboolits.com, they have a sub forum called selling /swapping , many members sell pewter and some sell tin. I picked up 5 one ounce bars of 99.5 pure tin for half of what Roto costs. And, if your a caster, it's a casting forum you should join. It's an amazing site for casters.



Here's the five bars plus one ounce of tin wire clipping from Roto.

This might help you. A 20 to1 is going to give you a BHN hardness of 10. You can get the same 10 BHN if you mix equal parts of pure lead and wheel weights. Here's a alloy calculator I use when mixing alloy for different hardness requirements.



Here's the website for the calculator.

http://www.weatherby.dk/bhn.htm

I got the Chinese virus. So am about to load 500 rounds of 357 and 300 rounds 44 mag. Might do about 40 of 300wsm. At least until my fever makes me pass out at the loader.

Hope you get to feeling better soon

Thanks Brother! Hasn’t been too bad this time. Good reason to clean weapons and load ammo! Never seems to be enough hours in the day to do what I love to do.