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I melt down a wheel weights about once a year in the back yard using my fish fryer and a cast iron pot. The steel clips will float to the top and you can skim them out when you flux the lead. I use candle wax to flux, always completely dry to avoid problems when water meets hot lead.
Ok, you have lead, or lead alloys, perhaps some of it is scrap, etc, now you need to make useable ingots to feed your melting pot. Melting down your scrap lead and cleaning it is called smelting. I use a cast iron skillet and a propane burner. I put my cut up lead shielding, range scrap, etc in there, then start the burner.
As kids in the 1940s we could buy these at the hardware store for a buck and get a box of .22 short black powder blanks for 50 cents. We discovered that if you whittled the bullet of a regular .22 short, or rolled a BB down the barrel, they would shoot well into side of my dad's shed, but sometimes this broke the cast iron frame...
I live in Colorado and own a Remington 308. I have an upcoming local neighborhood shoot. Rules are iron sights only. No scopes/peeps. 100 yard target with elk caliber rifles. My eyes are not what they used to be at 64. I'm in need of the best iron sights for competition, adjustment and vision. Thanks for your assistance. batman@andrewsdev.com
First things first, I have no idea what the threaded device is but it looks military in nature. The nail is for clearing the fuze or touch hole, the thinner wire is for peircing the aluminum foil packet you put a measured charge of black powder in to load the blank shot. you would then place a short chunk of cannon fuse into the touch hole and into the powder "bag". light the fuse and step back.
Cast bullet reloading is entirely different than jacketed bullet reloading - understand this and you are on your way to a very successful career with cast bullet reloading and shooting! Please do not use factory crimp dies for cast bullet reloading. Cast bullets MUST remain in their pristine state in order to shoot accurately.
Still, any designer should have realized that that design could easily be dangerous, and figured out a better way. The use of a cast iron frame was not really a misstep, since many guns, even at that date, were still made of cast iron or wrought iron. People think, for example, that Colt casehardened the SAA frame because of the appearance.
MIM parts that are rough as cast iron. If I get a call and someone says they have a revolver that is locking up or not firing, its a 70 percent chance that its a taurus. the remaining 30 is spread among all other manufacturers still in business or not.
The Japanese Navy manufactured a version of the Type 99 with a cast iron receiver. This was the Naval Special Type 99 Rifle. A 26 9/16" barreled rifle & 21 5/8" carbine were produced. Not only the receiver but all the bands were cast iron. The chamber of the barrel was enlarged & the locking recess for the bolt was machined into the barrel.
Some indoor ranges have rules about only shooting bullets with no exposed lead. To accommodate cast bullets, companies like Rainier plate their bullets with copper. This approach is still cheaper than even the least expensive major bullet makers jacketed bullet (Winchester or Remington bulk jacketed bullets). Gas check will not pass the above rule.