I'm sort of a new member in that I've been lurking for a while (about a year) and have not really made any posts.
But that changes today. I've been shooting and reloading for about a year and just last night I added casting to that list.
I bought a Lee Pro 4 melter and a couple of Lee molds and last night was the first chance I had to fire it up and cast.
I bought 50 lbs of smelted WW from ebay and used that as delivered. I don't really know how hard the boolits are, but I can mark them with my fingernail. I'll compare them to some commercial 12bhn boolits tonight.
It took me a while to get into the rythmn of it, but I finally ended up with 69 usable 200gn .45 SWC and 23 usable 255gn .45 SWC boolits before the on-call phone rang and I had to stop. It was 9:00 pm anyway.
I'll be firing up the pot again tonight and casting some more. Then pan lubing and sizing them.
Here is the finished product.
Now I can say