Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: G0ALY on June 07, 2007, 05:09:48 PM
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What’s cookin is BULLETS!
It’s not often you see a fat man in font of a stove and there’s no food! But today I was melting lead and pouring bullets. I was making 565 grain .58 caliber minie balls for my 1864 Springfield musket.
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10 pounds of lead yielded 125 bullets.
If you include the cost of shipping, when I was buying minie balls online (Nobody around here sells them) I was paying thirty bucks for fifty rounds. I can buy pure lead locally at a buck a pound. So the savings I get by doing it myself is great.
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Here is a .58 caliber 565 grain minie ball next to a .22 caliber long rifle round.
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Freudian… isn’t it?
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nice castings!!! have you lost weight??
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It helps to do this and get a better flavor for the sport of black powder as well as saving money. I cast my own R E A L bullets for my .45 and the .50 I have. I didn't cast any round ball as they were simply too cheap to buy to make the effort worthwhile.