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Interesting load. What are you shooting those out of?

Just finished up my session of smelting the last of my lead roofing boots with the newly fabricated smelter from an old 20# propane tank. Got 230 pounds done yesterday and another 240 pounds today. Ingots average 10 to 13 pounds each. 470+ pounds for two afternoons. Never could have done it with my smaller pot setup I've been using for a few years.

That’s freaking awesome. I think you’re ready

Wow

That's a LOT of lead. 👍

Wish I had that much lead in my pencil

Dang that's cool nitro!

Just a bit of trivia..... One large ingot is approximately 84,000 grains. One 12 pound ingot will make over 500 38/357 bullets. So I guess the 47 ingots would give me about 25,000 cast bullets. Should last me a while at the range. 😆

Here's some images from the smelter build. I chopped a 20# used propane tank in half. And used a turkey fryer burner for the heat source. I chopped the burner unit away from the initial configuration so I could fit it closer to the tank bottom.

Well that certainly make sense with a tubular magazine. Are you having to shorten your cases?

I loaded GOV brass and trimed to 2.095 and loaded 492 gr, 250 gr, and 300 gr, Was planning on shooting these tues or wed through a graph and go from there , called henry and they said gun would shoot anything a Marlin 1894 45/70 would, so I loaded all on low side of velocity.

What's the Henry weight out at? Curious which shoots most accurate.

Went to my range today shot the henry 45/70 with loads I poured up and coated, this a brand new Henry never fired , fired 2 factory rds first 325 gr fts 1851 and1862 fps, next was 400 gr one rd 1363 fps , next was 490 gr 1158, 1162 fps, next was some 250 gr speer friend gave me 1607 1568 all this through new chronograph as far as accurate did not have table so barley hit target going to make me a table, You ask about gun wt it weighs 6.0 # Did not shoot the 300 gr today.

Poured 170 rounds of 6.5 creedmoor only 22 bad rounds in the lot, then I powder coated using a new method and new powder

So why are you guys coating the bullets?

Reduces smoke from lead bullets when fired

If done correctly, and velocity is not pushed beyond reasonable levels you avoid leading.

Cool

Prepped 100 280 Ackley improved cases got the ready for a dose of h4831sc and loaded some 150 and 165 40-06 with some Hornady interlocks