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Andy must have got up on the wrong side of the bed. Men and boys and the price of their toys.
Just to let you know on the Cast Boolits forum. There is a download of a PDF of a book by Glen Fryxell .If you wand some good info
on Cast bullets . Also if you do a search on the net The second ed of Lee is out there for free. I am going back to bed now.
ET-ret

The machine in the pict looks good. But that said why is there so much effort put in to the hardness of bullets?
I have cast bullets and shoot them at cans paper target and very little at animals except 22lr factory bullets I have in my youth killed a lot of feral
cats and dogs. Dont' get to excited back then a case of rabise was a very real for the area of my youth. Better the dogs die than one child bitten.
the linotype machine was very picky about the metal and the user was forever sending it to a lab for correction. mix in any thing else and the machine would chock up and not cast a slug.
bullet casting is not that picky.
I have bought plumbing lead .Mixed it with some tin and antimony went on .
I grew up in a type shop where we had some metals off the back of electrotypes .
Linotype, monotype, sterotype and foundry. of these I have cut lino with soft lead and never had trouble making
bullets. I bought lead wire and used Speer half jackets and swaged bullets with a C&H swageamitic. Some times jackets would come off
in flight. that is why the factorys moved on to bonding.
I like copper plated bullets but there are gone for a while. So I get to start casting again but i am not going to worry about how
the bullet is. I saw where a guy broke his sizer and lube handle so I don't want them to be too hard.
ET-ret