Casting Balls and Bullets for Black Powder Pistols
After today, it's all historical.
The guy in the article must love casting bullets. He's got more money sunk into his lead melting pot than I have in my pot, molds, and lead combined.
Sorry, I went the cheaper route all the way around. I use single or double cavity molds instead of 4-6 cavity molds and my pot is just a regular fishing sinker lead melting pot. I use any pure lead I can buy and when I can't find that, I use lead fishing sinkers (a little more expensive, but usually readily available).
Once the pot gets hot enough to melt the lead, and the mold heats up, even with a single cavity mold, things move along fairly quickly. I can make enough balls to get me through a couple of shooting sessions in less than an hour. Never really saw the need for a 4-6 cavity mold.
Everything is fun about black powder (except maybe the clean-up process, but that's not too bad really).
I'd rather spend the day shooting black powder firearms than modern powder firearms. Cheaper and a whole lot more satisfying.
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