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Offline barber

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reloading fired cast bullets
« on: March 24, 2013, 08:36:48 AM »
Can fired cast bullets be reloaded, if so what must be done to them?  Would they now be too small for the bore?,  As you can tell, I don't lnow any thing about this.  Thanks
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2013, 09:50:47 AM »
SURE YOU CAN....I DO IT ALL THE TIME


when ever we get enough of them  we put them in a pot and heat them up first
then   we pour them  into  molds...then drop in water


i have even  shot used  45-70 out of my 38
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2013, 10:44:49 AM »
Quote from: barber on March 24, 2013, 08:36:48 AM
Can fired cast bullets be reloaded, if so what must be done to them?  Would they now be too small for the bore?,  As you can tell, I don't lnow any thing about this.  Thanks
They probably could be, but with the rifling already engraved, the lube gone, the nose distorted and the thing half full of dirt, why would you want to.
 Much better to take the fired bullets back to the melting pot, clean them up melt them down and recast them.
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2013, 01:33:53 PM »
Are we talking about CAS type loads shot into dirt?  Any other load you are going to have a mess on your hands.  Gotta recast.
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2013, 05:37:33 AM »
I don't know what CAS  type bullets are,     These are hard cast bullets shot into  dirt,  I didn't think they could be reloaded,  Thanks for the replies.
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2013, 05:39:54 AM »
Hopefully, all of mine hit steel plate.  The bullets are to deformed to be reloaded.  When they are picked up they are melt down.
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2013, 05:51:13 AM »
Quote from: 45-70.gov on March 24, 2013, 09:50:47 AM
SURE YOU CAN....I DO IT ALL THE TIME


When ever we get enough of them, we put them in a pot and heat them up first
then, we pour them  into molds... then drop in water.


I have even  shot used  45-70 out of my 38!!

TOO FUNNY... I was gonna say; I DO IT ALL THE TIME!!  :o ::) ::) ;) ;) ;)

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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2013, 06:00:09 AM »
CAS means "Cowboy action shooting" and often use very low power loads (sometimes even wax) but a hard cast bullet at low speeds so that it won't get completely mangled when it hits.


Bullets get mangled when they hit the backdrop.  Most loads won't be recoverable, just a splat of lead after hitting rocks and hard dirt.


You are better off just collecting lead from other sources to do your casting.  -No bullet will be "reloadable" without recasting it.
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2013, 08:58:36 AM »
You can re-fire Lee cast shotgun slugs.  I see them laying around all over the range.  Not a nick on them. 
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2013, 07:26:29 PM »
Heck, if I so much as drop one on the concrete floor..it's not going thru my pet barrel!
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Re: reloading fired cast bullets
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2013, 11:45:29 PM »
If you have a LOT of them and your not casting your own, you could always look into smelting them into ingots and selling them as range lead.

There are a lot of folks looking for just such alloy to pour their own bullets with. All you would need would be a good heat source, a cast iron or SS pot to melt them in, a ladle to dip and pour the lead with, and some cheap steel muffin pans to pour the lead into. Figuring you could sell the recovered lead for upwards of a buck a pound, you could recover your cost pretty quick. 
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