Self-cast bullets for hunting

[bwhoffman]

If I cant cast for and/or reload for it, I dont want it!('cept for 22rf)
a lot ofenjoyment to be had in making what you shoot and developing a load for any given gun!

and yes, I like my lee molds!

 

[BrownBear]

Maybe the more relavent question is "Why not cast?" There may be logistic reasons like living in an apartment, but other than that folks are selling themselves short if they don't do it themselves. It's easy as pie. Lee furnaces and molds are so cheap now that you can recover the cost in under a year if you only shoot a little. Shoot a lot, and you're making money. Pretty easy math, even without thinking about the fun you're missing, as well as the satisfaction of doing it yourself.

 

[Deadeye]

MSW, not disputing your point of view but just stating that in my own case, I know that I ate a lot of lead shot in quail and squirrels when I was growing up, as a kid with a single shot rifle
we often carried our .22 ammo in our mouths for a quick second shot, I've been casting for 60 yrs.
Have cast at least a million lead alloy bullets,
been muzzleloading for about 50 yrs. have always spit patched, handling lead balls and then putting the patches in my mouth, about 2 months ago I had my blood tested for lead. It was NORMAL. I had my fingers crossed wondering what it would be but my thinking now is that the danger has been overstated.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

**when you cast, be sure you're outdoors, so you don't inhale the fumes. lead vapor can mess you up.

Melting lead to casting temperatures does not vaoporized it, it takes higher temperatues to do so. Dross dust is bad though & one needs to be careful when handling it.

 

[PreglerD]

Many thanks for the security advices. I cast my bullets in the kitchen with open window and smoke discharger on. the casted bullets out of the mould are layed down on a wooden ground. when they are cold I cut the sprue. The minies have no really sprue. And you all are right. It is lot of fun, especially the shooting. for round bullet I bougt a primitve mould at rapine's. The PRB's out of it a very good. .54 minies I cast with a LEE mould.