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Went to the gun show this weekend not.loohing good any time soon!
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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Mac" data-source="post: 2138469" data-attributes="member: 104530"><p>Somebody once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste." This is price gouging, plain and simple. Situations like this always create new opportunities for the creative minded. For me also, it has pushed me to rekindle my interest in bullet casting. To borrow a term I saw on castboolits.com, I now call them "freedom pills". Lead and lead alloys are dirt cheap, and with a little practice, one can make excellent, accurate handgun projectiles for practice and hunting. Low velocity cast rifle bullets for the larger calibers (.30 and up) also work very well under 150 yards which is perfect for "woods" hunting. Powder goes a lot farther with cast rifle loads and pressures are also lower, in the 35K range. I feel safe using pistol primers in these loads, but make your own decisions regarding safety. Our ancestors nearly wiped out the buffalo herds using the 45-70 with black powder cast bullets, so maybe we can also learn to adapt. If we let that stuff sit on the shelf the scalpers will wither and die. That's my plan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Mac, post: 2138469, member: 104530"] Somebody once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste." This is price gouging, plain and simple. Situations like this always create new opportunities for the creative minded. For me also, it has pushed me to rekindle my interest in bullet casting. To borrow a term I saw on castboolits.com, I now call them "freedom pills". Lead and lead alloys are dirt cheap, and with a little practice, one can make excellent, accurate handgun projectiles for practice and hunting. Low velocity cast rifle bullets for the larger calibers (.30 and up) also work very well under 150 yards which is perfect for "woods" hunting. Powder goes a lot farther with cast rifle loads and pressures are also lower, in the 35K range. I feel safe using pistol primers in these loads, but make your own decisions regarding safety. Our ancestors nearly wiped out the buffalo herds using the 45-70 with black powder cast bullets, so maybe we can also learn to adapt. If we let that stuff sit on the shelf the scalpers will wither and die. That's my plan. [/QUOTE]
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