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So I'm having a hard time finding scrap lead. I've only found one tire place in town that will sell me their lead, and I've only netted about 40 pounds from them so far since Christmas. It's good, and a good price, so I don't complain, but I've already cast it all up and am looking for more...

So I was annoyed today as I went to buy a striped AR receiver (my first AR, hooray!) from AIM Surplus today, and it dawned on me that this is a "firearm" and must go through an FFL. Called around town and one place wanted $45, and another $50 to do the transfer! Finally a friend hooked me up...

Well so far I've only found one tire store in the whole area that will sell me their wheel weights. I went back there today. They remembered me. They said they had some, but two other folks had also been by to get some. So I only got 16 pounds of lead today. But I came prepared. I brought...

So every day at work I walk past the aluminum can recycling bin, and I think, "Gee, it's too bad I can't cast bullets out of aluminum." But then I think, "It would be too hard on the barrel anyway." But then I was thinking. What if we made sabot rounds to load into handgun cartridges? What if...

I have a Lee Pro 1000, set up for .45 ACP. I also want to load 9mm. What parts do I need to buy to change calibers quickly and easily? I think I need an entire new shell plate carrier assembly, including primer feed and case shover, plus case feed tubes, plus a new turret plate, plus dies...

Well, I melted down the defective 9mm bullets that I had, and used the last of my lead to squeeze out another 116 .45 ACP bullets. Just about enough to match the primers and brass I've got left. Steve

Results! http://www.forth-armoury.com/temp/bullets/bullets.htm (scroll to the bottom for "results") So today I headed over to Larry's Pistol and Pawn (awesome place, by the way), and used their indoor range to try out some of my reloading efforts. I fired about 250 rounds. 100 rounds of...

Well this weekend I cast up all 22 pounds of the wheel weight lead I bought for $5. I mostly made .45 ACP, since that is what I have dies to reload, but I also made some 9mm, because I wanted to try out the mold. I had fill problems with about 1/2 the bullets in 9mm. There were flaws in the...

So I cast my first bullets tonight! 230 grain, round nose. Man, my new 20 pound Lee production pot goes HOT. I got my lead melted, and then turned it down to 6. Checked with a thermometer and I was up over 900 degrees! I added a few more chunks of lead to bring the temp down - finally got a...

So I want to build a portable screen of sorts to set up when I go shooting. I'm thinking PVC pipe for the frame, but I would like some sort of netting. What can you suggest to use as the netting that would be cheap yet durable? Steve

I have saved many of the plastic trays that come with factory purchased ammo, but I need more of them. On Midway USA they are like almost $2 a piece! This is ridiculous - those things are cranked out by the millions and should cost about $.25 a piece. Anyway, the last box of Winchester .45ACP...

I've got a .44 caliber (came with .454 dia balls) CVA "Navy" blackpowder pistol. The cheap one with the brass frame. I was going to buy a round ball mold for it, Lee 90442, but I was wondering if I can use wheelweight lead for such ammo? I heard that you should only use pure lead for...

Well, here are the results of about 3 movies over the course of the New Year's Weekend: http://www.forth-armoury.com/temp/bullets/P1010199.JPG I am now out of bullets. I still have about another 500 primers and brass and powder. Next week I'm going to order the Lee 20 pound pot and try to...

My Lee Pro1000 has a powder measure that drops powder through the expanding die. The problem is, I can't figure out how it goes on. It has some sort of knurled knob but it appears locked in place. The problem is that when I spin the expanding die to the correct depth, the pull-chain lever is...

http://www.forth-armoury.com/temp/bullets/img055.jpg So, I fired 20 of my first reloads ever today. They were 230g Oregon Trail Laser Cast bullets, R-P used brass, 4.2g Bulleye Powder, CCI primers. For comparison, I first fired some Hornady factory ammo - 230gr JRN. Then I fired my reloads...

So I was using my Lee Pro-1000 to deprime my brass, and I had the charging die and the crimp die still in the stations. I had twisted the powder flask to the off position, but the jostling of all the depriming made it twist to the on position, and out dropped some powder and I got a little bit...

So I've heard some folks here say they don't clean their brass. Last night, after wet-tumbling my brass with the primers still in, and discovering water and crud trapped under the primers, I decided to deprime all of my brass, about 1000 pieces, and then re-tumble. I had another box of about...

So my .45ACP cartridge making seems to be going well, I'm going to shoot my first reloaded cartridges this weekend. I'm going to order a production pot (Lee 20 pounder) and a .454 roundball mold from Midway USA, figured I'd get a 9mm mold while I'm at it. What is a good size bullet for...

So I see I can get a 40 pound bag of corncob media from McMaster-Carr for about $25: http://www.mcmaster.com/#corn-cob-abrasive-blasting-media/=adh9ze But it comes in different "mesh sizes". I assume you'd want the smallest. But how do you interpret mesh sizes? Is bigger mesh size bigger or...

So for Christmas I got a Lee 2-cavity mold for making 230 grain tumble-lube bullets in .452. My goal is to make cartridges as cheaply as possible. So I hit every tire store on the main drag in town, and only one shop was willing to sell me their scrap tire weights. I did not know what a good...