Bullet Casting.....

[Adam Helmer]

The farm work is done for this year and the heat wave has gone by. It is 67 degrees here at 10:00 a.m. and I am going to cast until I get my Winter supply of cast bullets made. I like both rifle and handgun cast bullets and the ratio made and shot are about 25% rifle to about 75% handgun.

I have about 600 pounds of OLD wheelweights in ingots in the woodshed. I stopped by Monroe Muffler yesterday and all I saw in the "Free" wheelweight bucket were the NEW aluminum/zinc/nuclear waste ones from China.

I buy my tin (solder) for $19 per pound at the nearby plumbing supply house and was advised the price will go to $22 in September. Have you checked the price of a gallon of Coleman Fuel lately? It is almost $10 per gallon at Walmart. I stocked up for my Coleman bullet casting stove last year when it was $5.89 per gallon.

I will cast .38 WC and SWC bullets, .41 SWC, .44 SWC and .45 SWC this go round. Tomorrow it will be .30 caliber rifle, 8mm, 7mm, 7.65mm and 7.7 bullets. Is anyone else casting their Winter bullets?

Adam