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Well, I've must come back in the house after a mammoth session of casting with my little Lee pot. I've been pretty remiss over that last couple of years, and let my stock of ball and bullets get down to the 'where are they all?' level. NOT good. Especially with a monthly guest day coming up, on which I can usually get through over a hundred .44 ball and maybe 30 - 40 .577 of one kind or another by that I mean Minié - it can get VERY busy here. If course, it's smiles all the way after cracking off a cylinder of .44cal ball, or letting rip with a service load and a Minié - I've never seen anybody without a great cheesy grin on their fizzog - usually thought the cloud of smoke.
So, using more or less my last pieces of church roofing lead- acquired legally ['onest, guvnor], I've made around 500 .44cal ball, around 200 Minié bullets of two sizes - one for the Musketoon and a different pattern for my Pritchett Volunteer rifle.
So, using more or less my last pieces of church roofing lead- acquired legally ['onest, guvnor], I've made around 500 .44cal ball, around 200 Minié bullets of two sizes - one for the Musketoon and a different pattern for my Pritchett Volunteer rifle.