A few of you know my old man (RIP dad) has been gone a number of years now and he was into every imaginable gun activity. My maw has been slowly letting go of his stuff as she feels comfortable. I don't bug her about it. Never would. Ever.
Well, I headed over this weekend to fix a gutter and other chores and mentioned the Bighorn (1st muzzy ever 4 me) I just picked up. She says, "your dad has lots of M.L. stuff. You should take it home with you."
"I thought it was all gone since none of us kids had any interest in it", says I.
"Oh no. I just stashed it in this here cupboard!"
Sooooo, an hour later (and after my chores)
I've got my wife's car overloaded with 8 heaping coffee cans full of lead muffin-ingots plus, tool box kits, cans of Goex, probably a dozen bullet molds (unfortunately almost none for 50 cal), patches, primers, two lead melting pots and a Lyman 450 lubesizer.
Poor car.
But THANX DAD!!!! (like father, like son. One can never have too much stuff)
I've already tested the pots, melted some lead and poured some near-boolits (first try ya know)
It's addicting!
Finally, I poured a 'plug' to push down my barrel for bore-sizing. My Knight is right at .500 with .0035 deep grooves. Now I just need a .501 sizer for the Lyman!
Note: I don't know what these ingots actually are. Don't have a hardness tester. I assume wheel weights but I brought home one of those 'lead' pyramid anchors that he was obviously melting down. there was a little soft lead in sheets but the muffins are noticably harder. Guess it don't matter. I'll make some boolits and try 'em out!
