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For a chick setup you need to have a big plastic container, straw for bedding, a red brooder lamp, a feeder and waterer. Start chicks on Starter/Grower feed with grit until they start laying eggs. Make sure the feeder, water and container are cleaned often! Different types of bedding can be used like straw or pine shavings. Recommend turning on room lights in the morning and turning off lights in the evening to get them used to day and night. Brooder lamp should stay on until the chicks are feathered out.




Todays quick run netted a good amount of round balls, and some conicals to test out: a modern Lee (left) and Richmond Labs (right). The Richmond Labs conicals were produced by the Confederacy during the civil war


Some examples of rejects.

Wrinkles are usually caused by the mold not being up to temp, or a bad pour.

Voids are mostly caused by a bad poor.

No problem, put them back in the melt with the sprues and keep going


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Off to the races.

Fill the mold

Allow lead to cool. Watch the sprue (the lead on top of the mold) it will cool and harden. Its color will change, and you can see a "pucker" from the lead being drawn down as it cools.

Use you wood whooper to open the sprue plate and cut the sprue.

When you open the mold, if your boolits don't fall out, tap the pivot bolt (and only here, no where else) with your whoopin stick


After the lead has melted, I've added some sawdust to "flux" the melt. This pulls impurities to the top. It is important to stir the flux material into the melt, scraping the sides and bottom.

Good flux materials are sawdust and candlewax. Both will clean up your lead nicely.

You can remove the slag and flux if you like, but not necessary, as it will keep it all on the top.


Got our soft lead in the pot


Pouring out what was already in the pot. What I'm removing is a harder alloy I use for modern cartridges like 9mm.

Today we'll be casting round balls and conicals with pure, soft lead for some ol' timey black powder guns.


This is how to preheat a mold when not using a hot plate.

Getting your mold warmed up gets your mold dropping good boolits faster


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In this session, we're using more modern tools to accomplish the job.

Down the road we'll show a budget friendly/primitive method of casting boolits.

Tools needed:

Thick gloves. I use welding gloves

A spoon

Lube for your molds. Using 2 cycle oil, and trying out anti-seize

A wood whoopin' device. This happens to be a piece of an old axe handle.

Optional: hot plate to preheat your molds

Bullet mold to cast the boolits you want.

A lead furnace. This is a bottom pour furnace.

A lead thermometer

Damp rag or sponge to cool off overheated molds.


Doing an afternoon casting session today. We'll go over some basics of what you'll need to make some home grown projectiles....also called boolits round these parts


Veggies ain't the only thing home grown around here.

We'll have content soon on making homemade boolits to feed those hungry boom sticks!


It’s pruning time!

Fruit trees and roses, make sure your shears are sharp, cut off anything dead or struggling, cut off expansion shoots or branches growing toward the interior of the structure








The Santa Rosa will self pollinate but has greater yields with another Japanese variety nearby




Here are some great videos on Black Powder from my good friend Sea Bass


It’s important before planting fruit trees to know whether they are self pollinating or require another variety to pollinate with

These plum trees are Santa Rosa and Methley

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