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By John Floyd Excerpt from Fouling Shot 131 Jan-Feb 1998.Nearly fifty years ago when I was a cattle rancher here in southern British Columbia, I was the chap that introduced an old single-shot .45-7() Peabody rifle to a large black bear. I had found one of my cows that had been killed by a bear and I was out to even the score. Hardly anything makes a rancher angrier than finding a pred

Recently I got to thinking about why I started casting and shooting lead alloy bullets.  For the life of me I couldn’t remember, possibly a factor of advancing years, then the penny dropped; I bought a muzzleloading rifle and began casting round balls.  There had always been small amounts of lead around the family home whether it was in the form of sheet lead from roof flashi

Excerpt from Fouling Shot 129, Ken MollohanIn previous issues of The Cast Bullet I've discussed my thoughts on bullet lubes and explained why I believe they improve performance by keeping powder fouling soft and by wetting the bore to prevent molten lead from soldering to the steel. Regardless of the cause of leading, it is generally agreed that it is the kiss of death for accurate

Hollow point cast bullets are very much in vogue right now.  I would wager that never in recent times have so many affordable moulds producing HP projectiles been so available.  We have the likes of NOE, MP and Accurate to thank for this but less so from the mainstream manufacturers.  Lee list no HP moulds at this time and the same goes for RCBS though Lyman is still ma