KHornet
Well-Known Member
Weather turned nice (62 degrees & sunny) on Fri, so opened the garage door and started casting 9MM's. Just got a new 6 cav lee that I wanted to try out, the 356-120-TC. Scrubbed out the cavs with Comet, and did the Al heat treatment on the stove top, 3 times. Keepers after the first drop. Nice looking bullet. Only did about 500 as I wanted to see how they shoot before I cast a whole whoop more. Then I pulled out the 6cav. lee 124 Round Nose, 356-125-2R which sized and lubed comes out right at 130 gr. That bullets shoots out of my 9's very well over a charge of Tight Group (Which if fast becoming my non mag pistol powder of choice).
Filled the pot with range scrap, BN, right at 12.5 air dropped and cast 1100 of them. Only probem casting 15-1600 pistol bullets is that you have to size and lube them, but got that finished up this a.m. Lube sizer had about half/three quarters of a tube full of LAR's 2500, so that is what I used. Finished them up with a nice lite coat of BLL. Regardless of what ever lube I run thru the sizer, everything get 1-2 coats of BLL. I consider BLL to be an incapsalent (sp).
Today was/is almost as nice as Fri, but decided to throw clay this afternoon instead of casting or loading. A little variance once in awhile is not all bad. Have enough 9mm cast to hold for awhile.
Paul
Filled the pot with range scrap, BN, right at 12.5 air dropped and cast 1100 of them. Only probem casting 15-1600 pistol bullets is that you have to size and lube them, but got that finished up this a.m. Lube sizer had about half/three quarters of a tube full of LAR's 2500, so that is what I used. Finished them up with a nice lite coat of BLL. Regardless of what ever lube I run thru the sizer, everything get 1-2 coats of BLL. I consider BLL to be an incapsalent (sp).
Today was/is almost as nice as Fri, but decided to throw clay this afternoon instead of casting or loading. A little variance once in awhile is not all bad. Have enough 9mm cast to hold for awhile.
Paul
