1st Time bullet casting

[Hickok]

I have been casting my own bullets for about 40 years now. Was just thinking, how many of you cast your first batch of bullets on the kitchen stove?

I can remember my first effort and using the wife's stove. "What is that smell, what in the world are you doing??" Well that is some of what she said, BUT not all of it!!!

[PJ Hardtack]

Was that your FIRST wife .... ;>)

I wait until my wife is not home to even do up a batch of bullet lube.

[rickk]

My first time was on an old propane fueled stove in my dad's garage.

Of course, before I was done there was lead splattered everywhere.

[pony express]

I was 14 at the time, I used the kitchen stove on bowling night, when mom wasn't home. I didn't have a lead pot, just a great big ladle like plumbers used to used on old fashioned iron drain pipes.It probably would have held at least a couple of pounds of led, but I never put more than enough for about 6-8 bullets at a time, but that was ok because I only had a few cases, only shot a couple of cylinders full on a weekend of centerfire, the rest of the time it was .22s. Had a Lee 1 cavity mold, some Lee dippers and a Lyman 310 tool, smeared Lyman Alox lube on the bullets by hand, shot unsized.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Colman camp, stove and a Lyman lead pot.

[Delmonico]

My Oxy/act torch, a lead ladle and a 0.451 Lee Target Minnie, must have been about 1978 and I'd guess I was 22.   Oh the lead was scrap from making bridge bearing plates for the piers, I had a source.