Does Cast Bullet Hardness change over 24 Hours? In my last article, we took a look at some tests comparing air-cooled and water-quenched bullets, and reviewed the data from both.  During the preparation for that post, I took it upon myself to cast enough ‘spare’ bullets of both varieties to perform additional testing in the […]

How much does Quenching increase Cast Bullet Hardness? If you’ve been following my articles for any length of time, chances are you already know I water-quench virtually all my cast bullets.  While the fact that quenching increases hardness is fairly well known and agreed upon, I’ve always wondered just how effective it really is.  Over […]

Lee Precision’s Lead Hardness Test Kit In this article we’ll be taking a look at Lee Precision’s Lead Hardness Test Kit.  The first thing people usually ask about these is why you’d ever want to test the hardness of cast bullets to begin with. The short answer is that bullet hardness plays an important role […]

Using art pencils for lead hardness & BHN testing

OK, had this idea, couldn’t sleep so made this video on it. Empty the Lyman Brass Smith Powder Measure without removing it from the base. Uncle Jim seemed to struggle with it. So I fixed it! I modded a junk microscope to hold my 20X microscope for the Lee  hardness tester, too. Middle of the […]

Nope, NOT behind enemy lines. Just 300 pounds of future blaster pills.p I inventoried my lead stash. I actually have closer to 400#, but two pails are deeply stashed under the steps where I need a come-along to drag them out, so just estimating they weigh 100#. They were wheel weights I salvaged so they […]

Bullet casters may not want a large quantity of a certain hollow point design. If so, they can certainly avail themselves to hollow point cast bullets from some of our fine commercial casters like Matt's Bullets.

I did this video some time ago; it’s a good idea if you're into mixing.

This is a long winded follow-up to my recent video asking:  why do most of my 45ACP bullets shot from my 1911 have "funny" marks on the side?  Also, how soft can our cast bullets be in our semi autos before the chambering process causes too much damage to the bullet nose as it contacts the feed ramp?  Inquiring minds want to know!

Why do most of my 45ACP bullets shot from my 1911 have "funny" marks on the side?  Also, how soft can our cast bullets be in our semi autos before the chambering process causes too much damage to the bullet nose as it contacts the feed ramp?  Inquiring minds want to know!

A video with a few 'hints & tips' about the way I cast .38/.357 FWC's; figuring how much lead to blend, weighing it out, setting up the lead pot w/PID and mould oven and casting good casts from the first pour.

Hello everyone, I’m in the process of loading all my YouTube videos here to our website, and to BitChute.com. We had a YouTube live stream last night, and I had trouble getting on live. I’m not sure if I was doing something wrong, but I suspect it was the powers-that-be at the other, big site. […]

This is the seventh video in the Powder Coated Cast Lead Hollow Point Bullet Testing series, which is a long experiment testing powder coated cast lead hollow point bullets made from various alloys and fired at various velocities. In this video I have a little fun using various methods to measure the hardness of the lead alloys used to cast the bullets that will be used for this test.