Beautiful work Sir. Be proud to display it
Live in Fairbanks, all the Carabou hide I have seen are hair on. The holes don't matter so much. Sold to tourist for chair covers I guess.
Finished this project this morning, had to stop a few days ago due to the chance of rain.
180 pounds of goodness, that 3877 balls for the smothbore, or 5625 for the .54
That could be correct in other circumstances.
The color deepens even as it solidifies, Most of the time while doing this it was barely liquid.
Just something in the lead, I was just wondering if anyone else had run into this.
Again, I have only seen this on xray sheeting. I can melt roofing...
I know there is no problem, just the only time I've seen it is with the xrax shielding.
I ran some ball from another source, got it way hotter, in a 4 inch pot, only a straw color.
Reuse, reuse, reuse...
Question.
If I put a round rock in a patch, and it never touches the barrel, how does it exactly hurt the gun? So If I put wayyy softer WW lead in a cloth patch how does that hurt the barrel? Or "blow"?
I run pure lead because I have access to all I could ever shoot. But if WW was what I could...
So the wheel weights are for projectiles on the front of cartridges. I have cast many hundreds of pounds of WW's. I only mentioned it as a comparison.
I only run soft lead in my ML's
I have run into this for the third time now whenever melting sheet lead from xray rooms.
Regardless of temp, as soon as it melts it goes pretty rainbow colors.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I run thus same setup with wheel weights or other lead sources and this doesn't happen.