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Casting With Bottom Pour or Ladle?
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been casting for yrs, have always used a bottom pour pot. lot easier, at least for me, to get a good pace going
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Pictures attached. I started running cast balls in the 1960's using a mold master bottom spout furnace. I started using a ladle about 25 years ago and have not changed back. I only shoot competition and am very interested in consistency with my loading procedure. The pictures are of a typical run of balls and starting to weigh them and separate out any out of weight span culls. The other photo is of swaged balls being weighed. For just hunting this would not be necessary.
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I weigh mine a bit different, but for the same effect.
I have a "master" ball of each size that is a pure lead, heaviest I have found.
I use it to zero the scale.
From there it's a fast pass through the new balls, anything more than 1% off goes back for re-melt.
Just to show that bottom dumpers are just as good, that reject rate is normally 2 or 3 balls per hundred that do not pass.
I shoot target, match and use them for hunting. No need to keep separate balls for hunting and play, they all shoot the same. (If I do my part)
In the above example, Barry's .360 home cast balls have a 2/114 = 98.2% pass rate, very close to what I get with my bottom dumper.
The Hornady .350 swagged balls 56/77 = 51.7% pass rate.
Looks like your home cast beats the snot out of the swagged store bought balls...
(I get similar results from swagged balls I buy too.
I also do sanity checks with the ball weight calculator to check the quality of the lead I get, a pure lead ball is always the heaviest.
I have a "master" ball of each size that is a pure lead, heaviest I have found.
I use it to zero the scale.
From there it's a fast pass through the new balls, anything more than 1% off goes back for re-melt.
Just to show that bottom dumpers are just as good, that reject rate is normally 2 or 3 balls per hundred that do not pass.
I shoot target, match and use them for hunting. No need to keep separate balls for hunting and play, they all shoot the same. (If I do my part)
In the above example, Barry's .360 home cast balls have a 2/114 = 98.2% pass rate, very close to what I get with my bottom dumper.
The Hornady .350 swagged balls 56/77 = 51.7% pass rate.
Looks like your home cast beats the snot out of the swagged store bought balls...
(I get similar results from swagged balls I buy too.
I also do sanity checks with the ball weight calculator to check the quality of the lead I get, a pure lead ball is always the heaviest.
