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With our shooting volume casting FOR US is the best way to go for me, buddy has been casting 3 days straight now next week will be a reloading day or 2 for sure, we shot today was a great one to be outside. Then had a good meal. Burger home baked buns and tater tots with ice water.

Sure are they drop slightly over 2# each. We used them so long we had to put a fan on them to cool off.

Some of our ingots alloyed ready to cast

A few 125 gr 9mm

Charles we live an hour east if Dallas and about a year ago we located an out of business printing company that wished to move and wanted to find someone that would haul off some things for them, a 350 mile drive 1 way to Midland Tx, part of the haul was 2500 pounds of linotype, it took 3 of us all day to go get it and load it and get back home, most of the linotype was still in pigs of about 25#. Also many old rubber stamp makers used it another source. I still have half a 55 gal barrel of old original wheel weights, been casting many years here, the printer in Midland also gave us a 250-300# chunk of used type metal we will have to cut up to smelt just to big to work with, so really in good shape here. Tipping the help at scrap metal outlets and leaving a contact card also helps us locate bullet metal, when they get some in they call us, recently we got about 396 lbs at $1 a pound. Also they loaded it for us a 1st.

A screw machine could do a copper bullet but WHY????????? Lots of trouble there when what we cast shoot better than we can by far, no leading noticed and much easier.

Exactly what I shall be doing today very shortly will be smelting alloy We have about 500 lbs of lead, 2000 lbs of linotype and & antimony tin so all fixed there, doing all we can today 2 of us flux it with paraffin. We will cast all of it starting next week into 9mm and 45's with 8 cavity molds .. Then hitech and size all. Easily will be over 10000 bullets. Probably 1 more time this year to keep well stocked. There will be 2 shooting up these, weekly range trips 1-2 and monthly matches. More primers coming in in the morning so all stocked well here. 10000 s pistol. They were ordered almost a year ago.
All will be loaded with WST powder.