Hey Goaly… What’s cookin?

[G0ALY]

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.







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.




Here is a .58 caliber 565 grain minie ball next to a .22 caliber long rifle round.




Freudian… isn’t it?

[storch]

nice castings!!!  have you lost weight??

[Maverick]

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.