"If you own it you better know how to work on it" - Jerry Mickuleck 2020

@mohammedcohen

Жыл бұрын

pretty much what the manager of the Illesheim Rod & Gun Club told my in 1972 or '73...since you've bought all these guns you should learn hoew to reload..ammo in the states is far more expensive than here at the Rod & Gun club...

I'm in the middle of reloading right now get some

@flowerofash4439

4 жыл бұрын

typing while reloading, what a skill

@billfreeman4940

4 жыл бұрын

@@flowerofash4439 typing while thinking what a skill

Teacher: whats your favorite pet ? Me: ooooh probably my Remington Teacher: what kind of food do you feed him or her? Me: A whole lot of GET SOOOOOOOMMMMEEE

@MiculekDotCom

4 жыл бұрын

Get some for sure!!

@patbullard9276

4 жыл бұрын

I did know someone who had a dog named Remington. And my son has a boxer dog named Ruger, named that by his wife. And my son works for Remington.

@shawngansert1973

4 жыл бұрын

Good one🤣. I actually laughed at that but you're absolutely right.

I love it Jerry: "We're just going to do some slow fire here" Jerry's slow fire: Faster than most peoples speed shots. :-D

Bayou brass & bullets is absolutely a great business to deal with, I bought a old colt SAA in 38-40 and couldn’t find brass anywhere for it, but called bayou bullets and they went out of his way to get me some, and four days later I got them , around 300 plus new starline cases, and the old 1902 colt shoots great,

A true professional... Says who his sponsor is before he begins the conversation... What a classy guy. I wish more men were like him.

"We shot a zillion rounds together", I actually think that number is low....

Hey, I appreciate your upbeat attitude and presentation style - this was a real joy to watch.

Hey Jerry I just wanna say you're an amazing inspiration. I've been watching you for a few years now and coming from California I never really shot guns. Once I moved to Ohio I was introduced around the age of 9 of from there my passion sparked. Watching you, you've actually inspired me to take up competition shooting. Hope you're doing well with quarantine, glad to see you're still having fun 😁

With the Lee molds I dip the corner of it in the melted lead to warm it up. Usually the third or fourth bullet comes out perfect.

@TheExplosiveGuy

6 ай бұрын

I've always heated my Lee 6-cavity molds with a propane torch, I give it just enough heat to the point I only need 4-5 initial castings to get the mold up to temp, after that it spits out smooth and lightly frosty bullets (I usually cast a little hot, the frosted surface holds onto the Hi-Tek coating better, and they quench nice and hard), but I do also stick a corner of the mold into the pot when I have to stop for a few minutes, it definitely keeps it up to temp. I just don't like waiting for it to get hot when starting from a cold mold, and the torch is really handy for melting freshly added ingots in the pot, and a quick blast on the pour spout will unclog a bottom pour pot in a jiffy, I always keep a torch handy when I'm casting.

For bolt action rifle hunting up here in Alaska, I hand load Barnes TTSX...130 gr for Dall Sheep, Black Bear, Caribou and 180gr for Moose/Grizzly Bear.

I was reloading and needed to stop to fill my primer tubes. Thought I'd see what was on YT, and there's a fresh "Gethca Some!" video! Loading 147 gr, Hi-Tek coated 9mm minor for a USPSA match tonight. Great video again. Thanks Jerry!

This man's forearms are ripped like crazy. Shooting must have given him a very strong grip over the years.

Jerry on Jerry’s shirt is peeking over the table 🤣

@werre2

4 жыл бұрын

yo dawg

@jenniferbeatty7545

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@johnskuse406

4 жыл бұрын

Jedidah Fire w

Thanks for the knowledge about casting my own bullets, Mr. Miculek !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@chadhaire1711

4 жыл бұрын

waste of time and dangerous working with lead and jams up your barrel..dont waste yuor time..

“I’m just going to slow fire on that steel” Yeah right buddy.

Jerry, just watching your videos gives me confidence to leave the backdoor unlocked and wear a timer on my hip, thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

A million and a half bullets is probably a huge understatement on how many Jerry has shot

@ScottKenny1978

4 жыл бұрын

That's probably just last year...

@davidkachel

8 ай бұрын

Jerry meant, before lunch!

Jerry you aren't the only one that reloads to be able to afford to shoot my 45 45colt 44 mag . I would appreciate it greatly a video on different lead and how to add different ingredients to change hardness

I would listen you all the time, so instructive!

Casting bullets is my passion! Thanks for confirming your interest! Kindest Regards from Versailles, Kentucky😸😼🐈🐱🙀🐕

Your the man Jerry, you are my hero!

Jerry thank you for posting great straightforward videos I learn something every time

Keep these videos coming! I love reloading videos!

Awesome video Jerry. Donnie helped change a whole industry by introducing that coating to the US. Keep up the good work Miculek family!

It gives me joy to see somebody like Jerry Mitchell like using a lee 6 cavity. Well there are certainly better quality molds on the market it shows you that affordable stuff really does measure up to top-level demand. I've made well over 100,000 bullets using leasix cavity molds and I know lots of people who lap me many times over. There's just no way most of us could ever afford to shoot that much with commercially made projectiles.

Thanks for making all these vids during quarantine Jerry!

My hero! I started reloading and casting with my father in the mid 60’s and love seeing all these molds and hearing you talk reloading! I still cast my own lead and use wax lube for practice with my revolvers and jacketed for my 1911. We even use to collect the old used lead tire weights from a full service gas station I worked at to melt down for bullets. Thank you for terrific video!

@ninjaswordtothehead

2 жыл бұрын

You buy jacketed for your 1911 or cast them yourself? Would love to make some of my own for mine, don't mind soft lead down a SAA, but figured it was awful on a 1911.

@Bodhi1satva

2 жыл бұрын

@@ninjaswordtothehead I’ve tried both for the 1911, and my S&W and the bigger problem was occasional feeding issues. But you’re absolutely right it’s just easier to buy jacketed. I’ve been meaning to check into swaging my own lead cores and getting dies to cut my own jackets. One more point of control, but its a bit expensive. Not as much as I’ve spent already and there’s never a reason not to buy more tools and learn new skills!

@ninjaswordtothehead

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bodhi1satva That answers what I needed for where I'm at with skill level. Always good to learn new things, I just need one more tool... Thanks.

Good video Jerry! Thanks. Stay safe! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

Very interesting and informative. Thanks, as always!

Another great one Jerry, looking forward to more!

Thanks for the information Jerry🇺🇸

I cast for almost every gun I own and then powder coat- its the best way so far.

@onpsxmember

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of coating is that specifically? Do you put them in the oven after the coating?

@inglwud5625

4 жыл бұрын

@@onpsxmember yes bake for about 10 minutes depends on the kind of powder you have

In this PC World - I love all of this Jerry!!

Long live Jerry thanks for all the knowledges

My dad would always do my cleaning and such but I told him that I have to learn the care of my weapon not just being a good shot. Your quote in the beginning rings so true. I am making sure I am an expert in handling and care of my weapons. My dad is an old Nam vet sho had me later in life and I'm his baby girl so he has always felt he had to take care of me and my daughter even while married.

Great video Jerry! I really enjoy casting all my pistol caliber bullets. I just got done powder coating 1k 9mm from lee molds. Came in and watched this video. Great stuff!!

Love the way that revolver is ported could tell by the smoke

@alphagt62

4 жыл бұрын

When you shoot those waxed bullets you can smell the wax in the smoke. Smells like you put a candle out.

Thanks Jerry for putting this out!! I knew you would get to it! :)

Just got all my equipment to start reloading. Being a newbie, I plan on buying my bullets.

@TheSuburban15

4 жыл бұрын

That's really a good idea. Cuts down on the number of variables.

When I don’t have time to coat my own cast bullets for Cowboy Action...I order Hi-Tek coated .45 and .38 bullets from Summers Enterprises...Donny Summers makes a damn fine product and Hi-Tek is likewise a damn fine coating (my zombie green 🧟‍♂️ coated .300 BO subsonic bullets really stand out)...great and informative video Jerry, thank you 👍👍👍

@sashmiel6566

4 жыл бұрын

Does the coating leave a colored marking?

@bisleyblackhawk1288

4 жыл бұрын

@Sashmiel...the zombie green will sometimes leave a small green impact mark on a white painted steel target but when the target paint is shot away the impact spot doesn’t seem to stick...but the Hy-Tek coating is extremely durable and adhered to the bullet even with the impact on steel.

Love that eight shot "six-shooter."

Happy Birthday. I'll be 67 in December. But believe me 66 is a great number.😄

Years ago while shooting idpa my brother was using hard cast 9mm handmade (store bought castings) it got so bad on the dim indoor range it looked like he was shooting black powder, then our local store turned us onto powder coated cast and that's all he's loaded since

Very educational! Thank-you! Best to ya',,,,!

Great video thanks

Thanks for the video

I always heated up the mold to stop wrinkling Thanks Jerry

Thank you Jerry.

I’ve been shooting bullets from Pyrocast Bullets USA for a couple years now. I’m a fan!

Jerry I would love to see more reloading videos from you.

I reload with the sns casting coated lead, good quality.

Sweet! I really do want to get into casting in the future. Saving my brass and dollars now.

@ironbomb6753

4 жыл бұрын

It's as much fun as shooting👍🙂 enjoy

I really love the Hornady XTP 180 grain JHP with about 30 grains of H110 in my Smith and Wesson Model 29. I like to save money and shoot the coated lead in my .45’s and even my 9mm’s. But at .25 a piece all in for a .44 mag load, that’s still a pretty good savings. I really don’t shoot it a whole lot though, if I did, I may be more inclined to shoot the wad cutters.

I'm confident that Jerry knows this term but for anyone else wondering--the impurities that get cooked out of the lead(or any other molten metal) is called dross. Also if you preheat the mold you won't have as many redo's. (The Leidenfrost effect)

On my Molds where I powder coat at end. Ive drilled/machined out all the wax grooves on the molds. To allow for more contact between bullet and rifling.

I want your shirt, but with the words "slow fire". Awesome lesson you gave.

*BEEP LOOTERS: WHAT THE... PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW JERRY: PRETTY GOOD. HEY EVERYONE I'M JERRY MICULEK.

@Pabcio

3 жыл бұрын

Hahah

Hi jerry, thank you for all of your videos, I just think it’s so funny how you’re talking about casting and reloading while sitting in front of a mountain sized wall of ammunition. 😁

@ScottKenny1978

4 жыл бұрын

Practice ammo. The more you can afford to shoot, the better a shot you will be. Takes about a thousand rounds or so for a reloading press to pay for itself.

Nice to see that optic on the Smith. People at my range laughed when I put a Delta Point on my 586.

I like to have all the little boxes on the shelf behind him ;-) will be like Christmas for me

His "slow fire" is about as fast as I could ever fire anything accurately.

Cast pistol bullets are as accurate as jacketed bullets but require more attention to produce accurate ones. Wad cutters are exceptionally accurate in 38 specials. They just can’t be shot at high velocities but are still very accurate. The powder you select is important to reduce the smoke factor. Buying bulk bullets may be less costly but seldom shoot as well as ones carefully made. If you are using cast bullets and they smoke like the dickens the lube is excessive in most cases. Follow the Lyman manual specifications in lead hardness and production processes because they work. If you shoot a bullet made of God only knows what, they likely will hit, God only knows where.

1000 rounds of 44 should last me a while in the apocalypse, even longer if they are in a straight line

@steelboymi

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know...guys I run with would say you're low on ammo with only 1k even without a zombie apocalypse

@Cheesytarian

4 жыл бұрын

@Dodge Mustang and it's probably still not enough😆

“..30-35 cents...”. Me: that doesn’t seem very cheap “..a box “ 😲

@OhSoddit

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I almost cried.

@alphagt62

4 жыл бұрын

Having to actually buy lead, it’s costing me about $2.60 a box right now. So even if the lead were free, I couldn’t load a box for $.35! The good old days.

A tip for Fluxing the lead, if you drop a match or match head into the pot after you stir the paraffin it will ignite and keep the wax from smoking so bad and actually helps burn off some of the impurities that would otherwise be airborne and get into your lungs. You can also use dry sawdust to Flux with and the ash that will get burned up will pull a few other impurities out that the wax might not. I always set my spoon and the molds I plan to cast with on the edge of the pot to warm up and dry off as the lead comes up to temp. We used to go through around 5,000 rounds a year feeding 5 .58 cal rifle-muskets, 3 .50 Smith carbines and 2 .54 Sharps carbines in N-SSA matches and that's not even mentioning the pistol and Smoothbore matche, boy I love my mortar because we would only have to make up powder charges because the balls were usually recovered after every match, inly ever left 2 balls in the field up in Winchester. We would buy powder by the 25 lb case and usually burn through a case in 3 months, so we got real good at casting and loading BP ammo. We ended up getting a master caster to handle the volume and even went so far as to buy a mill and lathe to make our own custom molds.

we used to train ipsa back in the day ( late 80ies, beginning 90ies) with lead bullets at an indoor range. We used to wear full gas masks to prevent lead poisoning :-).

In the early 80s, I found printing presses used a teflon coating that was sprayed and baked... game on

@TheSuburban15

4 жыл бұрын

That's basically how the Hi-Tek coating works.

Nice!

I have some Bayou Bullets, 115 Gr 9mm, some 44 mag, and some .45's I love them.

We shoot tonnes of Hi-Tek coated hardcast bullets here in Australia in pistol competition, several local manufacturers use it.

I love to cast my 357 mag bullets!! Great video sir

Copper coated has been an awesome projectile.

every part of me wants to come sort out those boxes for you Jerry

I'm not a pro shooter... But I am an expert caster, been doing it all my life, lead, tin, resin.. Pro tip, drop the aluminum mold into the lead pot k since its set to low heat for melting only lead) to warm it up and the first bullets will be just as fine as the last.

@ericomfg

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy, the lead will just roll off it like a nonstick pan or something?

0:00 Jerry shoots steel, subtitles call it "[Music]". 🎯🎶

Jerry - would you do a video of how you set up a revolver for either competition or protection? Thanks

...that's pretty much what the manager ofvthe Illesheim Rid and Gun Club told me 50 years ago in 1972..that since I was buying so many firearms..I left Germany with 5...that I should learn to reload...I bought an RCBS Rockchucker.. still have it for my 'grunt work'..m

Jerry you are an inspiration!! you partly inspired me to start casting to feed my "pets". Am right down the road in the Longview area, cast about 15K rounds every year of 45acp and 9mm. My current costs are about $3.50 per hundred of either caliber. keep up the good work!!

@gb93669

4 жыл бұрын

Sincere question here...I reload thousands of 9mm. My bullet cost is $.09 each. I'm intrigued by the idea of casting and it would be fun to do no doubt, but the cost savings alone doesn't seem to be worth it. I'd save 5 and 1/2 cents per bullet? But I'd have so much time invested in casting and baking, plus the equipment cost, that it seems not worth it unless just for the fun of it. I buy copper jacketed bullets. I understand if you're wanting to experiment or fine tune bullets for competition, but I just train. Thanks.

@chadhaire1711

4 жыл бұрын

@@gb93669 all of your figures from BOTH of you guys are bullcrap. There is more to reloading than cost of brass, powder, bullet, and machine. The time it takes to pick up the brass, clean, size, and load is there too....The money saved in common calibers is NOT THERE. Buying a case of cheap 9mm brass at 5,000 rounds, then selling the empty cases is the way to go....reloading is only about 2-3 cents per round cheaper on paper and even if you showed me a larger figure the time it takes to reload works out only if your time is worth $8 an hour with a min wage job. You reloaders are kidding yourself...

@mackellyman5642

Ай бұрын

@@chadhaire1711 What you fail to consider is that reloading is part of the "PREP PERIOD" for competition...

@chadhaire1711

Ай бұрын

@@mackellyman5642 for losers with too much time on their hands

Thanks Jerry

I love his "slow" fire lol

I really enjoy you sharing your knowledge. Get some ha ha ha

I’m in the process, of learning copper coating my lead..I think it’s kind of cool!

Just look at those shelves!

Don't plan on reloading anytime soon (I shoot mostly 9mm) but great information in any case. Thanks again, Jerry!

@Kilz78

4 жыл бұрын

Actually it's fun.....also you greatly reduce the cost of said ammo even if you buy jacketed bullets.

You are the man jerry

I know your lil brother good family damn good shooter down here in gramercy la

I'm just now starting lead "cowboy" low pressure loading, 45 acp, 45 colt, maybe later 38 special. Running in a Rem. 1858 with conversion cylinders. Bayou Bullets seem to be good.

I know it cost a little more than other options, but I love the Speer TMJ bullets for .38 Special and .357 Mag. Like $12.50/100.

Wonderful life lesson- “if you own it, ya better know how to work on it.”

Faster in slow motion than most folks at full speed. lol👍😎

Cool

only been casting for a few years but haven't ever powder coated my castings. I've been more of a traditional lube-in-groove person, just recently getting into gas checks and making my own

I’ve got a bunch of Lee molds, but only for black powder pure lead, and have been casting round balls and Minnie bullets for a long time. I want to try bullet casting for regular handguns, but don’t want to spend a fortune on lead alloy for casting. The days of old wheel weights and linotype are over. I have a ton of lead, and even a few pounds of tin, but no idea how to mix it with the lead to harden it, so for now have just been buying the cast bullets. I have a supplier that sells bars of something called Lyman #2, but I’ll have to see if it’s any cheaper than buying the already cast and lubed lead bullets. Appreciate the info on the bullet coatings, looks good! 👍

I appreciate all of your videos, especially you re-visiting reloading. I've been reloading only 5 years now and just recently got into casting. So far all equipment and lead costs (wheel weights, scrap yards, and range lead) put me @ $3.25 a box of 50 loaded. Love Bayou Bullets, I will probably switch to Hytek once I run out of Powder coat. Have you any experience with Accurate Moulds or Erik at HollowpointMolds? Thank you, and Get Some y'all!

Jerry is the Tom Brady of all types of shooting,gunsmithing, loading, and common sense.....🇺🇸👍🐐

I need to get all the equipment to reload. I had some but it was lost during a move. So now I need to start all over again.

Ive heard that much airborne lead comes from the lead salts formed from the primer but im sure lead bullets add a bit on their own.

those are some funny-looking snap caps

The best that's ever been