I'm going to start searching the interwebz for helpful tutorials that illustrate casting, sizing and lubing your own bullets to greatly save you money on ammunition costs. For example, I can cast my bullets and make my own handgun ammo at around $5/100.
I'll keep adding videos or photo threads as I stumble across them.
Video of how to prepare scrap lead into ingots of clean lead for casting future bullets
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cas ... FORM=LKVR1
Here is one that I just found and it is pretty well done while keeping it very simple.
http://www.taurusarmed.net/forums/bulle ... llets.html
this is text-only but has some good info:
http://www.grantcunningham.com/blog_fil ... 6-926.html
Still haven't fluxed out ALL the impurities but this video shows how simple casting can be done for under $50 start to finish
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cas ... ORM=LKVR13
THE best lesson on how to use the tumble lube method for your cast bullets. Ya' gotta' lube them things!
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=67654
I'll keep adding videos or photo threads as I stumble across them.
Video of how to prepare scrap lead into ingots of clean lead for casting future bullets
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cas ... FORM=LKVR1
Here is one that I just found and it is pretty well done while keeping it very simple.
http://www.taurusarmed.net/forums/bulle ... llets.html
this is text-only but has some good info:
http://www.grantcunningham.com/blog_fil ... 6-926.html
Still haven't fluxed out ALL the impurities but this video shows how simple casting can be done for under $50 start to finish
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cas ... ORM=LKVR13
THE best lesson on how to use the tumble lube method for your cast bullets. Ya' gotta' lube them things!
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=67654