I started casting in 1982 with a Coleman 502 single burner stove, a small cast iron skillet, and a homemade dipper. The first mold that I ever owned was an RCBS 45-405-FN (hence my avatar "405grain") I cast thousands of bullets in lots of different calibers with that setup. Decades later I got a 20 pound Lee bottom pour and it was like going from an ox cart to a Lear jet. Today I've got a ton of different molds, and cast so much that I hardly have storage for all the bullets that I've made. (Looks like it's time for a trip to the range to make room for some more cast bullets)![]()