Well, I've been a lurker for several days and had one post that from which I received some very helpful replies. As I stated in that post, I have access to old lead water pipe and get it when it is replaced with new plastic. I started on my smallest batch- about a half of a 5 gallon bucket cut into 3-4 in sections. After skimming the junk off of the top, I used a muffin pan to cast my Pb ingots. I got 32 ingots from this batch. Now I get to start on the next set. I have approx. a half ton- maybe a lot more to smelt, clean and cast ingots. I'm in the process of doing that tedious job and still looking for equipment. I decided on the Cabine Tree tester. I'm also looking for a good thermometer, slug mold and the 18 cavity "00" buck mold. I played with the neighbors two hole .40 cal round ball mold and didn't have much luck. I think the smaller sprue hole had something to do with it. Anyway, I started the journey and am hooked already. I'm looking forward to the alloying, testing,and finally the shooting. I'm so glad I found this site, I have learned so much and learned how much I didn't know. Thanks for all the info to everyone and hopefully I'll finally get to start firing my own casts soon!