Never made a formal first post thread. I think this is my third post on this forum. But I've been lurking and absorbing for a long time. I'm accessing from a galaxy S phone (@ 3 yrs. old) so please expect typos.
Probly not the right place for introductions, so I'll just down to it.
I've been reading about powder coating replacing boolit lube and I've been very interested in this.
My first foray into the firearm world (as an adult) was a Colt M4. I quickly pieced together a 300blkout upper and havej@2nt fired a 223 in over a year. The colt upper still sees regular use with .22 aguila sss 60gr. @and a cmmg conversion kit for rabbits, squirrels, and rats (the new best shooting sport ever here in southern oms, except i'm down to @ 200 rounds and even at $80 a brick, not in stock anywhere).
So, I've been collecting lead piece by piece for sometime now with the expectation of eventually making my way to casting my own bullets. Decent jword bullets are 30 cents a piece. Good ones (my favorites are noslers at .50 cents slug). They just go up from there.
I'd like to make my own bullets to escape the cost and availability issues of buying. Likely gonna buy a lathe and make my own molds so I can tailor those to my needs as well. Then come custom chambers, etc. My woodshop is probably soon going to be adulterated into a metal working facility what with the casting and gunsmithing and all.