Just bought a Bunch of stuff to start reloading lead.

[Milltown353]

Me and the Old Man just picked up a bunch of stuff to start casting and reloading lead bullets. Along with a Lee pro 1000 along with other equipment to just plain reload,

We got 385lbs of lead type set.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0526.jpg
Casted Lead bullets, .38/.357 and 9mm.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0535.jpg

Sweet can and Brass.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0527.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0543.jpg

Lee Pro 1000 & Old school Lyman, along with 1500 small pistol primers.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0530.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0532.jpg

Bullet molds:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0537.jpg

State of the Art Reloading Equipment [:P]:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0538.jpg

Bench covered with hardwood flooring:

I sorted out all the brass
750 .38 special
2060 .357 magnum
35 .45ACP
1 10mm :P
a 5 gallon bucket filled to the brim with 9mm. I figured it out to be around 9-10k by weight

All that stuff for $200, and the progressive is unused. Think I got a good deal?

[Typecaster]

A progressive is too progressive for me...if you got 385 lb of type metal (linotype) alone, you're well ahead. Lino seems to be going for about a buck a pound n Southern California.

Congrats, and welcome to the group.

Richard

[Milltown353]

I had copy-pasted from Ar15. com, don't know why the pictures would work.

heres some other things I got as wells

I also got a Lee hand primer thing which will hopefully work well for reloading .38/.357
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0536.jpg

Also got this box of targets, guessing around a thousand or so:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0539.jpg

And the Bench came to:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/Labrador6029/100_0523.jpg

From what I've been told it is not safe to shoot lead bullets from a Glock factory barrel, but that other barrels like lone wolf are safe to shoot lead in. Now I was wondering if this rule was for all after market barrels or certain brand in particular.

[imashooter2]

Barrels using conventional land and groove design are safe for lead. The factory says the polygonal rifling in Glock barrels is unsafe, but many disagree. I have no solid opinion on the matter.

[Parson]

Your bucket of type metal appears to contain a fair amount of "mono type", while it will make bullets it is considerably different than pure "linotype", more brittle, lighter and tends to lead a barrel more if used straight

[454PB]

I had 3000 pounds of monotype at one time, I've used and sold a lot of it. It leads no worse than any other alloy if the boolits are properly sized. However, it is more brittle than linotype due to the higher antimony content. I mix it 1 to 3 with pure lead for an excellent all around alloy, and 1 to 4 with wheelweights for maximum effort magnum revolver ammo.

[billyb]

Individule letters are monotype according to what i have read. Monotype makeup is 10% tin 16%antomony74%lead. It would be a waste to cast this without adding some pure to extend the high tin antimony contint.Do a google on type metal. I had about fifty pounds of this and thought it was lino mixed up a alloy that i thought was #2 when the ingots were cool i dropted one on the floor and it broke in half. rung like a bell. to brittle for boolits. cut with pure and you will have enrichment metal for a lot of good alloy. Bill

[billyb]

Is casted a word? Bill[smilie=1:

[Frank46]

milltown353,better read up on how you can strech that stash of lino or monotype to help you prolong your shootin fun. You can cut it with wheehweights, and lead. That stuff in the bucket is like gole and when its gone its gone. For regular pistol or revolver shooting the lynotype or monotype is way too hard and expensive just to be casting and shooting it. You can cut the linotype 4 to 1 4 1lb ingots wheelweights to 1 pound of linotype. bullets are softer and to strech the monotype them printers block letter things can be diluted even further. It all depends on what your shootin at
like paper targets, or critters. You do not need a super hard bullet for paper. When shooting something for the table well things are different. There's a lotta guys on this board could give you various recipies using your linotype and mixing it with other plumbus alloys that will extend your shooting and you have more fun doing so. Frank

[Milltown353]

Well i plan on building a bullet trap as to catch most of the lead. I plan on doing like a 3:1 mixture for most of the pistol bullets I cast.

[scrapcan]

Milltown353,

That is appears to be a nice C-H three station press in your pictures. If you have trouble with the lee pro1000, you have a good backup.

The thing with the stock glock barrel is a big debate, you will hear both sides. My 19 (9mm)shoots cast boolits really well with no leading once I found the correct size. I would also recommend that you not try to run on the top end if you are shooting the 9mm and lead until you get some time under your belt with both the cast boolits and relaoding for the 9mm. But if you change to an aftermarket cut rifled barrel you will probably be better off, warranty issues not considered as there will be no warranty in any case if reloads are used and definitely not if cast boolits are used.

[Milltown353]

Milltown353,

That is appears to be a nice C-H three station press in your pictures. If you have trouble with the lee pro1000, you have a good backup.


That H press has seen a lot of use, the guy said he and a couple of other guys got ambitious and reloaded all the ammo for the whole departments qualifying. I'll probably just start reloading .38/.357 on the H until I feel comfortable enough to reload on the progressive.

[eljefe]

We have the squibload king at our range...dutifully loading on a Lee pro 1000.
Granted, this guy has not an inkling of what he is doing, and I am sure that once
nuked out, that press will run good for you. You are wise to load on the single stage press to start...



Milltown353,

That is appears to be a nice C-H three station press in your pictures. If you have trouble with the lee pro1000, you have a good backup.

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[rbstern]

We have the squibload king at our range...dutifully loading on a Lee pro 1000.
Granted, this guy has not an inkling of what he is doing, and I am sure that once
nuked out, that press will run good for you. You are wise to load on the single stage press to start...

Squibs are not really something that a Lee 1000 is inherently prone to when using a Lee powder actuator. The case actived powder actuator is actually one of the most reliable parts of the press.

Loads with crushed primers or dented primers...that's another story altogether. :)

Anyway, MT...nice score on all that gear for small coin!