making bullets
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
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RE: making bullets
ORIGINAL: nchawkeye
My dentist gives me mine...when they x-ray your teeth...and insert that plastic thing in your mouth...there is a small sheet of lead inside to block the x-rays...I get it for free, because he doesn't want to send it to the land fill...I make round balls out of it, can scratch it with my finger nail and it flattens when it hits a deer...works for me...Good Luck
My dentist gives me mine...when they x-ray your teeth...and insert that plastic thing in your mouth...there is a small sheet of lead inside to block the x-rays...I get it for free, because he doesn't want to send it to the land fill...I make round balls out of it, can scratch it with my finger nail and it flattens when it hits a deer...works for me...Good Luck
Happy Hunting, Phil
#13
RE: making bullets
ORIGINAL: QTompkins2005
sounds like it is cheaper and easier to just buy your bullets.
sounds like it is cheaper and easier to just buy your bullets.
Some of the projectiles I cast like the .458 405 grain FP shoot real well out of the rifles and the down range power of a pure lead bullet is still hard to beat.
If a person was forced to purchase the lead, then you might be right. It might be just as cost effective to purchase them pre made.
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 3,092
RE: making bullets
That's one reason I've been sorta pushin' Bullshop. When we get him whipped into shape on these muzzleloaders and making a line of good bullets for same, we'll all be in business (even some of us that already cast). His prices are fantastic and quality of the one type bullet of his that I've tried is exceptional.
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: making bullets
Some might think its easier to buy your own bullets...I started muzzleloading in 1975...Back then you got into it because of a love of
history and wanting to learn how they used to do things you made alot of the equipment that you used...It doesn't take me more than a couple of hours to run a hundred balls or so....only cost is the mold and the gas I use on the outdoor grill...I cast out of a tin can and made a dipper, flux with SnoSeal...And, I have run my own tests and my guns prefer cast balls over swaged...I feel that they are softer and arbutrate easier...I shoot a .40 and a .54, haven't shot a store bought ball in 25 or 30 years.
history and wanting to learn how they used to do things you made alot of the equipment that you used...It doesn't take me more than a couple of hours to run a hundred balls or so....only cost is the mold and the gas I use on the outdoor grill...I cast out of a tin can and made a dipper, flux with SnoSeal...And, I have run my own tests and my guns prefer cast balls over swaged...I feel that they are softer and arbutrate easier...I shoot a .40 and a .54, haven't shot a store bought ball in 25 or 30 years.
#16
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Iowa
Posts: 779
RE: making bullets
Well, the reason I was asking is because I am planning to buy a muzzleloading shotgun, and would like to shoot rifled slugs. I have been t old they make molds for them, but I have n ever seen them for sale anywhere.
#18
RE: making bullets
ORIGINAL: QTompkins2005
Well, the reason I was asking is because I am planning to buy a muzzleloading shotgun, and would like to shoot rifled slugs. I have been t old they make molds for them, but I have n ever seen them for sale anywhere.
Well, the reason I was asking is because I am planning to buy a muzzleloading shotgun, and would like to shoot rifled slugs. I have been t old they make molds for them, but I have n ever seen them for sale anywhere.
In my smoothbore I shoot a ball. A .62 caliber (20 gauge)ball is 324 grains. If you're getting a 12 gauge shotgun which I think is around a 75 caliber, you will be shooting a much larger ball then I would be. Guessing, somewhere in the 500 grain range. Would a slug be bigger then that?
Keep us posted what you're up to. It sounds interesting...