This may sound like the ramblings of a mildly retarded imbecile but its strange what occurs to us when we have our undisturbed alone time in the solace of our lead pots.

I've learned a LOT in e last couple of years. I mean a LOT! I know I have so much more to learn and will never stop until my time here is done.
Fifty percent I learned here from you guys, the other half I learned from all the stuff I've screwed up!

I have a friend who would love to learn to do this too. He doesn't have the free time I do so I do all his casting and loading for him. I thought about trying to teach him but there's just no way I can explain many of the things I know. Maybe I'm just stupid.

Here's a case in point. I have a Lyman 358429. I HATED this mold since I got it. It makes a beautiful boolit and is very accurate but it is a miserable bastard to get to work. It has always fought me tooth and nail handing me back a good 60% scrap rate.
I haven't cast with it in almost two years because of it. Well, I finally ran out and had to dig it out. I use the same pot, same alloy, same ladle, same temp, everything. Now the sucker spits out perfect boolits left and right with less than a 10% cull rate. Why? Nothing has changed. It's something I'm doing different. I know this because since I used it last I have went through several other molds that were equally difficult to master and I DID IT.

So? What the heck did I learn to do differently? This is one example of what time teaches. I could go on at length with several examples. How does one pass on things you don't realize you've learned?

Kinda silly ain't it?