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Bill asks: "What’s the added value to pressure casting with the dipper?  Would you happen to know the bullet dropped weight with pressure vs without ladle pressure casting?

Good question. Also are the bullets more uniform in weight?  Has anybody who believes "pressure casting" helps run these simple experiments?

   Bullets cast in this manner are very uniform. I have never had any consistency when dribble pouring and    abandoned that method immediately. I either mate the mold and the dipper - or - use the spout on the    bottom of the pot.

If pressure casting improves bullets, is using four inches of pressure (bottom pour)  better than one inch (dipper)?  

   Some of my molds REFUSE to fill out properly with the pot spout and must be dipper cast.    Most of my molds do best with the full weight of the pot over the pot spout. Molds have    personalities and prefer different feeding methods. NONE of my molds will ever fill out    properly when dribbling from a dipper.

   Some prefer the pot spout with a 1/2" gap and a fast fill but most like to be placed directly on    the pot spout, allowing the full weight of the pot to force the lead into them.

Do we know any of these answers?  Maybe we should.

   We know these answers from frustrated attempts to make a mold cast properly. We try pot    spout feeding with no gap, pot feeding with a small gap, modified cadence and    temperatures, and eventually dipper feeding with a prescribed cadence and temperature. As    I said, each mold has a personality and works best with one method or another. Of course    alloys differ among molds too and that certainly plays into the casting feeding preferences of    the molds.

   And like Richard said, some molds just simply don't care how they are fed. They cast well with    any method used. I love those molds!

   For the record, my brass molds make the most uniform bullets but care must be used with brass molds.

   \\ Aaron \\

John