An amusing happening

[Leonredbeard]

My long lost friend Jeff from Arizona came in for Christmas. We took the 'Lively Bounce' to a public range. I had only a few lead balls which I let him fire. I also had some pewter balls I had cast a few years back. I stopped casting when I realized the bar of 'lead' was pewter. I fired one that I had not cut the sprue off of. It was a nice symetrical spruce so I placed the ball in the bore with the blossom of pewter in front of the ball and fired it. It made a perfect keyhole in the target. It was a nice round hole with a little mushroom sticking out the side. So I cut the sprues off the next ones I shot.
volatpluvia

 

[PitchyPine]

Having fun eh, Merry Christmas bro. :thumbsup:

 

[Musketeer]

This could be a new artform. cast balls with decorative sprues and fire them at a canvas to see what kind of strange designs you could get. You've heard of "cubism." You've just created "spruism." :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[ChrisPer]

Salvador Dali made pictures by bulletism wherein he used an antique arquebus to shoot ink-filled lead balls at a lithographer's stone to make one-off prints. Wouldn't it be great to own that same gonne!

 

[Musketeer]

I'd never heard of that, but I looked it up and you're right. :shocked2: That's really cool. Thanks for the info. :hatsoff: