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This article written by Karl Bosselmann, appeared in the Mar/Apr 2000, #144 issue of the Fouling Shot. Regrettably many modern-day shooters and hunters don’t realize that optimum-quality cast bullets of appropriate or ideal design excellence can outperform most commercially produced jacketed soft point bullets in game-field results (terminal ballistics).  However, many c

This article by Terry N. McArthur, appeared in Fouling Shot #145, May/June 2000. There is no way in this day and age that the average person can become an expert on bullet performance, but I have hunted with cast bullets in two states for the last 20 years and have formed some opinions.About all my hunting with cast bullets has been done with the .375 H&H in a Ruger #1. 

This article by Joe Brennan appeared in the Mar/Apr 2006, #180 issue of the Fouling Shot.This bullet was originally the Lyman 308403, and later the number was changed to 311403. According to Rudi Prusok, the ASSRA archivist, this bullet was first listed in the Ideal/Lyman handbook in 1927, and was listed until 1957-when the number was changed to 311403.From the 1927 Ideal Hand Book:“30

This "Speaking Frankly" article written by Frank Marshall, Jr., first appeared in Fouling Shot #161, Jan/Feb of 2003.Target shooters are preoccupied in their quest for sub-m.o.a. cast bullet accuracy, and this misleads the average shooter into thinking that getting “adequate” accuracy from cast loads requires sophisticated techniques.  This just isn’t so.  Elaborate refinemen

This article appearing in Fouling Shot #203 of Jan/Feb 2010, was written by Ralph Schneider.Back when I was first getting interested in hunting deer with cast bullets in the .45-70 cartridge, I thought that even those big slugs would be made more effective if I could persuade them to mushroom in the target. So I invested in a Lyman mold that came with a removable hollow point pin

Written by Jim Rothel, this article appeared in the Mar/Apr 2012, #216 issue of the Fouling Shot. After tiring from years of toting my casting equipment to the garage for bullet casting sessions, I decided to assemble a vent hood for casting which I could use in the basement away from the extreme cold or heat in the garage usual during the times I chose to cast.  I of course