How Many of you shoot cast bullets ?

[Tomcat 10]

Hunter , Thank you very much for the link , with all your info . 

   Ted

   

[Tomcat 10]

Are there bullets that aren't cast?

When I first started reloading back in the 60s cast bullets was all that I used .   I was able to get to get brass , and wheel weights for free . I didn't realize  how good I had it . 

[Tomcat 10]

Oreo , Thank you very much for the links , and info .  Super nice looking molds , and designs .

  Ted

[The_Shadow]

Hunter that was another good article,thanks!

Over the years of owning my S&W1006 with adjustable sights, I have shot many cast bullets from it.  There was times I used to shoot it on the rifle range, 130 yards to the berm.  I regularly would bust skeet that we placed on the dirt, then the challenge became to see who could destroy the pieces.  It was interesting to see people with scoped rifles not being hit what I was hitting with that 5" barreled pistol.  My co-worker begged me, to leaving him something to shoot at with his 30'06.

No, I don't consider myself an expert, but back then my eyes were pristine, and I make great match grade ammo to shoot with to include cast bullets. 

BTW, the co-work handed me his rifle to test his scope setting he work on most of that secession.  I told him to hand me the handloads I had loaded for him years before for his other gun.  They had been behind the seat of his Ford 4x4 truck, the box had even got damp and the brass had some green corrosion on them.  I took out my pocket knife, scratched off the build up off, and chambered the round to test with.  These were 165gr Speer Spitzer Boat Tail loaded over IMR3031, I settled in with the scope crosshairs centered to the middle of the target, he already had 3 shoots in the 1" circle, however my handload although old and crusty hit 1 1/4" high splitting the vertical line, I had told him that they would shoot flatter, thus the higher impact.

The moral of this story, if there is one?...Is that you get out of your ammo what you put into it!

[sqlbullet]

I refined about 250 lbs of isotope lead last night.  If it weren't raining today, another 400 or so would happen.

[erdyalx]

I shoot the Glock 20 and 29 with Lone Wolf barrels. I have shot the 180 Oregon trail TC, The Lee 175 Tumble Lube and Non Tumble lube and I just made a bunch of N.O.E. 200 WFN and 180 H.P. They were heat treated to 22 BHN and work great in my 40's also, just a bit slower.

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[The_Shadow]

Nice bullets, but why so hard?  Straight wheel weights are more than hard enough, even driven at the higher velocities.

What do the HP's weigh?

[Tomcat 10]

Anyone have any load data for power pistol using cast bullets ?

[Tomcat 10]

erdyalx , very nice looking bullets , but like Shadow stated , why so hard?  Do the HP bullets expand , or explode into tiny fragments ?