Thread: First casts

Your mold is too cold, your alloy is too cold. Your alloy needs some tin and your mold needs a real good clean with a toothbrush and acetone. Then when youve done this look a getting sharply defined fill out. I would then smoke the mold and cast several hundred to condition the mold. The mold will form an oxide that will allow good boolit drop and fillout . Your boolits being 165 grain show that they are more lead than the mold is designed for. This is not a problem if your intention is to shoot subsonic or sub 1400 fps .