I have been offline due to international travel but I found myself lurking at the site once I got internet set up here in Seam Reap Cambodia. No, I've not done much shooting or casting here, but I expect to do some when I get home to Indiana in five months. Just saw where I had to update my password to get back on. Basically, I just want to make sure I can still get on site. You all have been a help to me in the past.
I caught the gunbug from my father in late 1983 when Dad showed me that room us kids never went into because that's where he kept all his guns (It's easier to gun-proof the kids than the other way around.).Truth is, I did enter the room with permission to get sugar and flour out of bulk containers -- you just didn't mess with anything else. We later used the containers to anchor the loading bench.
Dad was a gun dealer who first opened a shop in Maryland, and then sold out and drove to Alaska for reasons I never quite determined. That room contained all the leftovers from Dad's intentions to open a gun shop. Dad found better jobs and never managed to open his shop. We put all ten of the 20-pound kegs of rifle propellant along the top shelf of the loading bench. That was my hobby room for fifteen years, including when I went home to Alaska for Army leave.
Started casting bullets in October 1984 using Dad's 10-pound Saeco furnace and never wanted to quit. In between my first part-time job and school I bought my first revolver -- a Colt .38 Officer's Model Target 6” heavy barrel -- using tip money, along with a supply of tin and antimony from Art Green in California. The tin was seven dollars a pound and the antimony was three fifty-five for a 55 pound block. I still have half of it left. I wanted to formulate linotype with Dad's plumber's furnace. That was thirty years ago.
Mom worried about all the time I spent in the handloading room in the basement. Dad told me once he always responded, “Well, dear, at least you know where he is at night..."
I'm on a couple of sites for cast bullet shooting, collecting information for when I get home. I probably won't have much to contribute until then.
Thanks,
Bisley
