totw bag moulds

[Robyn]

Hi all
I have a track of the wolf steel bag mould as probably some of you also have. I found that my mould did not cast a perfectly round ball and that the balls had a rather large lip around the split line. Rather than file the lips away I placed the cooled ball back in the steel mould at 90 degrees from the cast line and clamped the mould in the vice until the mould halves came together.... hey presto on more lip a round ball that is round and shoots a hell of a lot better. While this is not a cure for a cheap mould it sure makes them usable...
Happy shooting
Robyn from OZ :thumbsup:

 

[grizzy adams]

I have one of them bag molds also , and heres what I do , I put them in a tumbler wiff out media , for a hour to hour and a half , dat gets rid of the casting line form the mold
:thumbsup:

 

[MSW]

do they shoot better after being tumbled? i would imagine that a bit of tumbling would occur while the balls were sloshing about in a pouch or bag.

(here it comes, bad puns and smutty double entandres (sp?) about playing with our balls)

 

[Many Klatch]

Sorry, no smut here.

I know some shooters that swear by putting round ball in a box in the trunk of their car. The box has a smooth piece of metal or glass in the bottom. After a couple of days of bumping around in the trunk the balls are supposed to be perfect.

I have never tried it. Since I shoot mostly offhand the big factor I have to deal with is the nut behind the buttplate.

Many Klatch

 

[bingo1952]

The trunk thing works as will rolling around loose in the bottom of a shooting box you left in your vehicle for a month before you get to the range again. :haha:

 

[winterhorse]

better yet, get an gas clothes dryer. take out the paddles in the drum, and line with sheet metal(so small balls don,t fall thru the air holes) throw in a good handful of rough cast balls, turn on for 30 minutes and walk away. not as noisy as you would think and they come out looking like those fancy swaged ones. use a gas dryer because they run on 120v instead of 220.