Hi Everyone,
I am Reloader Dave...a newbie here on Cast Bootlits. I wanted to share with you all my 1st 45 ACP bullet casting. My friend John (johnfl) on here has helped me get started. He gave me a non functioning Lee Pot that needed some rebuilding, cleaning and some lapping on the rod to seat it so it does not leak lead. It turned out great when I got it done. John also gave me some lead to get started and lent me his 45 ACP mold for 200 gr HP bullets. The rest is history and I was was off to making bullets. Challenging at first to get things set up and learning to fill the mold properly but eventually I managed to make over 650 casted 45ACP in about 4 hours. Here are a few photos of my 1st adventure at casting and what fun I had. You can see after I Blue powder coated them and loaded them up after sizing them they shot really well. I am looking forward to casting many more soon.
Dave