Shaking my head !

[Bronco]

Do not know if this story is true or not. Got it off a cast bullet site. Thought it was funny and if true had my head shaking. Thought I would share it here!
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Exclamation Can you top this? NOPE.
Way back when I first started casting boolits I knew less than nothing. I first got a hold of Lymans casting manual and read it cover to cover a couple of times and then went out and got a Lee 4-20 pot and a Lee 148 GR WC 6 Banger mold.

I had a 586 Smith and Taurus 85 to feed then. I set up the pot and after scrounging some wheel weights went to town. I got a small cast iron pot and put it on a coleman stove and smelted down the weights and fluxed with candle wax.

It was all going good until I started to mold boolits. I had a pair of leather gloves but that Lee 6 banger was really hot. I got another pair of bigger leather welding gloves and wore them. I now had two gloves on the left hand that held the mold and one glove on the right hand, safety glasses, boots etc. I was covered.

It was a nasty job making boolits but I kept it up. They turned out pretty good and I was a happy shooter and boolit caster. This went on for two years.

I guess I made about 6,000 .38 Wadcutter rounds during that time and one day a friend of mine invited me to go to a gun show at Cashman Field here in Vegas.

I was enjoying looking around and my buddy found my Lee mold with some others on a table. Only this one looked different than mine. It was the same mold but it had a pair of handles on it! Wow! I never knew they came with handles. All this time I was holding the mold in my left hand when I opened it to dump out the boolits and then I put it under the spout on a brick to hold it while I poured alloy into the empty mold and shook my left hand to cool off.

Needless to say I bought another Lee six banger with a pair of handles that day for $20 and used the handles from the new/used mold on my old mold. They fit just perfect.

A little knowledge can be dangerous but that had to be the most stupid thing I did for two years was to mold boolits without using the handles that the silly mold was designed for because of lack of complete knowledge.

If that did not turn me away from this addiction then I guess I am hopeless?

[rock-steady]

That was one tough Hombre!

[Griff]

I didn't see that comin'!

[earlmck]

Man, I got a good laugh out of that one! I've done some (and will no doubt do some more) dumb stuff due to ignorance but I can't top this.

[GunnyMack]

I kinda figured that about half a seconds after reading " two gloves on left hand" .
If this story is true or not we may never know but sad to say there are people out there like this...

[KWK]

I first got a hold of Lyman's casting manual and read it cover to cover a couple of times and then...

Is there a Lyman casting manual that doesn't show the mold being held with handles?

[marlinman93]

I wonder what he thought those threaded holes on the top of the mold were for? I honestly didn't know they ever sold these without handles?