I read quite a few cast bullet forums as do a lot of you guys and have a question maybe someone can answer. Why is it that people always seem to take the most complicated and confusing answer to their question as the best one. A guy asks about his bullets not filling out and a simple “turn the heat up” gets ignored while something like “the molecular structure of the mould material has a negative effect on the alloy's ability to completely gravitate to the outer boundaries of the vessel. Wash the mould in an acid bath followed by immersion in a mixture of H2O and a stearite solution. Once the fore mentioned tasks have been fulfilled increase the temperature of the alloying agents and try again” (or in other words “turn the heat up") is advice for the ages.
The Long Winded Complicated Guy gets heaped with laurels while the guy with the simple, and usually right, answer gets ignored
A guy has a lube problem my reply has always been “try using a little less lube". Another guy will tell the asker “buy 379 different lubes and test which one gives the best results. Of course after you've tested 379 different lubes you have to start mixing them in proportions that will be equal to the task at hand (which usually means shooting a rifle bullet at 1600 fps or a handgun bullet at 1000 but we'll just skip that little fact) and try again. If your 10,000 tests of 10,000 tests don't cut at least 1/8 of an inch off of your usual 3 inch group the last resort is to try using less lube".
Once again, Long Winded Guy is a hero while short direct guy gets treated like a schmuck that just farted in church.
This always leaves me pondering what enjoyment is there in complicating the living hell out of shooting cast bullets that I'm missing? Anyone fill me in here?
