Hi,
I am new to casting. To prepare for new hobby, I am reading Lyman cast bullets handbook and watching YouTube videos. It is surprising that what I want to do now is completely different with what I initially wanted to do after only 1 week of reading. At first I wanted to get lee pro pot and lee 6 cavity mold to cast 9mm. Now I am pretty sure that I want master caster with .45 mold since I saw many people have problem with getting lead 9mm to shoot accurate. I am new to casting,so i donÂ’t want to be frustrated and give up on my new hobby because I pick the bullet that is hard to start with. I have few questions that I am hoping you can help me out
1.Have anybody had experience with master caster and how do you like it comparing to just the melting pot?I am saving pennies for it, so I want to make sure that I am getting good quality equipment.
2. Master pot and master caster seems very similar. It looks like that the only thing different is the base. As a newbie, Should I get the master pot to learn how to cast with hand mold, and upgrade the base later?
3.I read good thing about accurate and noe molds, should I get that modified to work with magma machine,,or just buy the mold from magma?
4. i want to start with handgun. I have 9mm,38 special, 357 and 45. Out of these 4, is 45 easiest to start with? What mold grain of bullet or mold should I get for .45?
I will be using wheel weights to cast. TIA