Bullet casting?

[Nazgul]

I have fired thousands of the Lee 255 gr FN bullets from my 45 Colts. They work fine. I even use the liquid alox lube, less is better. To me it is easier/faster than using a lube/sizer. True it is messy but there are ways of dealing with it. Handgun ammo is fired in a lot more volume than rifle ammo so easier to make is better. The alox works well considering the bullet only travels a few inches and leaves the barrel in milliseconds.

Same for the Lee 45 ACP 230 gr RN.

Don

 

[ru44mag]

If you do decide to powder coat, I learned a lot from Elvis Ammo on youtube.

 

[Guns&engines]

ru44mag, I follow the Elvis Ammo youtube channel. That's really what convinced me that I would powder coat if I do get into bullet casting. Thanks for the tip. He was doing a series on making priming compound, but I never saw a conclusion. Anyone know what happened to that? I figure youtube probably made him stop that one.

 

[Guns&engines]

Here it is a year later and I'm just now posting a follow up, sorry about that. As everyone predicted, casting is addictive! I now have 4 of the Lee 6 cavity molds and 1 of the 2 cavity. And I'm looking to get some more. I have began hunting for and hording lead (have about 400 pounds now). I don't have near the nice setups some others posted, but have the Lee bottom pour melting pot, hot plate, cast iron dutch oven for smelting, and a small toaster oven for powder coating.

I haven't been able to do much shooting over the last year, but I have several hundred bullets cast and ready to load. Hopefully I can find more time to load some up and do more shooting this year!

 

[Michigan Slim]

I'll grant that steel and brass molds are more forgiving, but I get a lot of mileage out of my Lees. I think it's just finding what works best, even the ubiquitous Lee two holers.

I like Lee molds myself.

 

[Hookeye]

Prefer Lyman. Used to cast a fair bit w pops back in the day.

 

[44blam]

I like three companies quite a bit:
1) Accurate Molds: https://www.accuratemolds.com/ They will do a lot of customization for you. You can have them make a mold with no lube groves if you PC, etc.
2) Noe Molds: https://noebulletmolds.com/ They're molds are top notch and many come with flat/cup/hollow point pins.
3) MP Molds: https://www.mp-molds.com/ These molds are AWESOME. And they are somehow super fast at shipping.

As far as cavity # - ALWAYS go with as many as possible. You can drop a lot more boolits with a 6 cavity mold than a 2 cavity mold...