Thread: Casting your own lead boolits?

Anyone here cast their own lead boolits?

Yep...357

Anything else?

Originally Posted by Spanners

Anything else?

And solids for the shotty

We cast 12ga (Slugs and Buckshot), .30 cal, .45 (4 or 5 different projectiles)

Whats 45 cal do you do and whats finished size?
Anythign in 455?
I'm looking at buying a mould for my Webley but not alot of interest in setting up for casting as that will be the only gun shot with lead - and rarely also

I'm pretty sure a friend of mine casts for his webley. I'll call round and see him this week when I get a chance and get the specifics.
I know he makes .455 webley cases from .45 LC brass by trimming to length and using a resizing die (and hammer!) that he had made.

He has several sizers for .45 cal, .451, .452 and .454 I believe. I've played with his 320gn Hollow Point .45 mould working on a subsonic
load for a silenced .45Long colt rifle I had built. Also tried his keith style .45 250gn mould, and Lee .45 250gn (approx) RNFP, all of which we sizes to .452.

They migth do the trick - the Webley mould is a copy of the orginal bullet style.

I might get the mould anyway and do a deal with someone for some boolits to be made for me.

If you want to go down that track, send me a PM and I'll pass on my mates phone number. May be worth giving him a call.

I'm still away overseas with wk for a couple more wks - see how i get on when home

Thanks thoguh - will be in touch