Good evening guys. Temps are cooling down and fall is in the air. Which spring and fall is my favorite time to sit down and cast my own bullets.
This year, I'm wanting to do some in hardcast too, but having never done it, am unsure exactly what, or how much I need to add to my pot. Pretty sure adding solder to the pot will work. But, how much is my big question. Is there an easy way to check hardness or is there a specific tool for that?
I also have some ingots of reclaimed bullets that I have melted down that surely had some hardcast in it too. Lot of it's pretty shiny.
I'm definately wanting to do some 10mm hardcast for deer hunting if I don't get one with a crossbow before rifle season starts.
Thinking of some 230 gr round nose 45acp hard cast since that's one of my main grabs for HD and I'm loading them spicy. And also some hardcast for 357/38 and 9mm.
Another question for the hardcast 9mm. I'd be using a 158 gr 357 round nose mold to make the heavy 9mm subsonic pills, then will run them through a 9mm sizing die. I've shot those bullets out of a couple of my suppressed guns with straight wheel weights and didn't have any problems. Or would you suggest I skip the hardcast for the ones I intend to size down and just keep using the softer wheel weights for them?
Everything except the slugs will be powder coated too when I finish.
This year, I'm wanting to do some in hardcast too, but having never done it, am unsure exactly what, or how much I need to add to my pot. Pretty sure adding solder to the pot will work. But, how much is my big question. Is there an easy way to check hardness or is there a specific tool for that?
I also have some ingots of reclaimed bullets that I have melted down that surely had some hardcast in it too. Lot of it's pretty shiny.
I'm definately wanting to do some 10mm hardcast for deer hunting if I don't get one with a crossbow before rifle season starts.
Thinking of some 230 gr round nose 45acp hard cast since that's one of my main grabs for HD and I'm loading them spicy. And also some hardcast for 357/38 and 9mm.
Another question for the hardcast 9mm. I'd be using a 158 gr 357 round nose mold to make the heavy 9mm subsonic pills, then will run them through a 9mm sizing die. I've shot those bullets out of a couple of my suppressed guns with straight wheel weights and didn't have any problems. Or would you suggest I skip the hardcast for the ones I intend to size down and just keep using the softer wheel weights for them?
Everything except the slugs will be powder coated too when I finish.