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Big guns are hungry critters, and I'm running low on food for my big 'un. So spent a few sessions casting bullets (slow process with the single cavity mould, though every year I tell myself I gotta' change that situation). Then after all that casting they still need lube. Stand 'em up in a pan, pour in the melted lube (in this case equal parts bees wax, crisco, olive oil correction here: more likely 50/40/10 proportions by weight). Here they are after the lube sets up. Because my pie pan isn't all smooth on the bottom but has some nuisancy design, I am forced into making this funny clump of bullets so they are all sitting flat. 1pie461.jpg
Pop the pie out of the pan and here it is from the bottom with all those nice 530 grain slugs waiting to be extracted.1piebottom462.jpg
I push the bullets out of the lube pie with my thumb. Pushing them through the hole keeps the pie supported so it doesn't break as I push the bullet through. 1pieharvesting463.jpg
And here's the big guy that'll benefit from all the cookin' 1rifle467.jpg
And with some loaded cartridges (45/70)1riflencrtgs468.jpg
Our monthly buffalo shoot next weekend will consume 68 of these big pills and then our annual event comes just two weeks after that which will eat 104 of them and two weeks after that will be the July shoot where another 68 go off into the wind. And I keep my pard Butch supplied also, so you can see I'll be baking pies again in a few months.