61 now. I started casting in college back in 1978. I've followed this forum for several years now and learned a lot in spite of how many bullets I'd cast. I always approached casting purely from a $ savings aspect so never used any variations in alloys other than wheel weights. Also had never shot a lot of cast in rifles since I wasn't sure they'd work well (expand) with the harder wheel weight alloy at moderate rifle speeds (30-30 for example). I read the "Hunting with Cast" part of the forum regularly for several years and that led me to get molds for several rifles such as the 35 Remington, 30-30, 7.62x39, 8x57, and a so far not so successful attempt to make a deer rifle out of my 460 Weatherby with something lighter than the Lee 500 grain.
As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one and several thousand are even better. This is a great forum for sharing ideas and I finally figured that I should join it when I saw a discussion on different bullets that would work well in the 35 Remington.