While many do not cast bullits o

While many do not cast bullits or "boolits" as folks often call our home made lead projectiles this can be your biggest savings, especially for feeding handguns. I have been casting since age twelve under the watchful eye of the local game warden who taught me the basics of reloading and bullet casting then from age thirteen on using my own equipment. A pair of dual cavity moulds for 140 grain wadcutters and 158 grain semi wadcutters and a service station that let me have all the wheelweights I could pick up loose on the lot and I have been slinging lead ever since. With good molds and advanced lubricants the cast boolit has come a long way since I began and throwing super heavy cast rifle boolits at subsonic velocity to traditional weight bullets at 2,700 fps and faster. From scrounging to finishished projectiles we are going to take visitors through the entire process.

ASSORTED CAST BULLETS STOCKPILED FOR USE AS NEED

A RUN OF 0.312" 160 GRAIN RIFLE BULLETS

FROM SCROUNGING, BUYING TO RECYCLING LEAD IS KEY

A VARIETY OF CAST BULLETS GIVES ONE MANY OPTIONS

LEAD WAS EASY TO GET BUT UNMERITED FEAR HAS MADE IT HARDER TO FIND

A GOOD SELECTION OF BULLET MOLDS GIVES YOU MORE VERSITILITY

ADVICE ON MOLDS AND MANY MORE COMING SOON

The next piece of required equipment is a bullet mold. The high number of different styles of bullets is staggering. No matter what your intended goals are there is a bullet mold out there to suit your needs. The majority of my moulds are six cavity molds but I do have quite a few single, two, three, four and five cavity molds. The more bullets a mold makes per pour the faster you will get done.

CASTING YOUR OWN BULLETS SAVES BIG FOR HANDGUN & RIFLE

The first piece of equipment you need is a lead pot. My first lead pot was actually a cast iron pot that I heated on the kitchen stove. Not very convenient but it works. I now use a Lyman Mag 20 bottom pour electric model. A lead ladle is also very handy and required if you don't own a bottom pour pot. I generally use a mixture of mostly wheel weights with a little pure lead or linotye added according to the alloy I need for the task at hand. Generally the harder your alloy is the better your bullets will shoot in center fire handguns and rifles. If you are casting for black powder guns you need to use a very soft alloy to allow the bullet to conform to the inner dimensions of your particular firearm.

NOT ONLY DO WE CAST OUR BULLETS MAKE OUR GAS CHECKS TOO

After years of shooting all kinds of ammo in about every type firearm and cartridge from common to wildcats we have the experiece to test in ballistic gelitan, against barriers, for accuracy and against aromr of all levels. See our sites such as www.CoolAR15.com, www.CoolBulletProofing.com, www.ChurchSecurityVolunteers.com and others. All are under construction with video content being developed, range reports and more. Am slowing at work and officially in semi retirement with early retirement likely coming so lots more shooting, these sites expanding, new sites which have two dozen URLs along with a YouTube channel is on the horizon. As I continue to slow at work the number of updates and amount of content should increase exponentiallly. Have fair recouses and if can get some test products to fill in any gaps we will pass on our unbiased view of all aspects of shooting sports, defensive tactics and much more. Would like anyone who wants to contribute contnet and photos to feel free to do so. Will get an email address for this site up soon.

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