What did i do wrong?

flux your alloy well as it's getting up to tempI gotta disagree with Recluse on that point. I never start fluxing until the melt is up to casting temp, for me that's 700 degrees. Why? Because even though you may think the alloy is melted (at complete liquidus) it may not be, different metals (antimony) melt at different temps and everything in the alloy may not be at complete liquidus. I flux once complete liquidus is achieved and I know that at casting temp it is.

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[QUOTE=geargnasher;2113967]Ditto the previous responses.

What mould is that? I wants one that casts a boolit about like that for .45 Colts.

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Lee has them in 6 cav. at .452 in 200-255-and 300 gr.

the lee 255 rnf is a decent looking boolit.
gear:
i have a bunch of lyman 452664's allready made up and stuff if you want some p.m. me.
heck i could re-lube them with 61.1 if you want.
or just make some and send them plain ,,whatever.

it's all an educated guess,,,, till the trigger is pulled.

the more i find out about shootin boolits, the more it contradicts everything i ever learned about shooting jaxketed.

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Thanks John, everywhere I've looked they're about $40+ and i was waiting till next payday. So it seems people use this mold for 9mm as well, i have a .380 bersa you guys think this would work in that as well? Or do you think it would need the round nose shape to feed reliably?

I split the difference between Recluse's and CB Rick's fluxing methods--I do both. I add wood shavings soon after the melt begins, and once again when the alloy is up to temp. Most of my metal has been fluxed pretty thoroughly during its smelt-driven domestication from free-range WWs or other feral sourcings, so these clean-ups don't yield a whole lot of impurities......but I do get a little, so it doesn't hurt to flux--as long as you aren't removing good metal inadvertently during the skim-out.

Far more often than not, heat is your friend and ally when dealing with lead alloy as a boolit or jig head/sinker caster.

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