Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Reduced 30-30 cast bullets in Savage 99

With a two cavity mold you should be able to cast a couple hundred in an hour. Fill the cavities, count to ten and cut the sprue and drop the bullets. Don't dawdle and immediately refill the cavities. You get into a rhythm. Other tricks include preheating the mold and smoking the cavities with a lighter to hasten the advent of good well filled out bullets early in the session.

I cast my first bullets by melting lead in a soup can with a propane torch. I graduated to a camp stove when my old man got miffed about my using up his propane bottles.