Originally Posted by TheKid
Are the throats in your cylinder uniform? That’s a bigger hurdle than them being oversized.

As best as I can tell, the throats are 0.455. Thats measuring with a basic caliper.

I did a test run and realized that the Lee pot is not ideal for turing the scrap lead into ingots as there is not a lot of room below and the flow is slow to fill the ingots. I picked up a cast iron pan that I can use over a camp stove. I have an old corn-cob bread mould that I plan on using for the ingots.

I also ordered some hard lead that I can mix in to make this lead a bit harder.

I tested out the bullet mould to get a feel for bullet casting. Some of the bullets actually came out nice. This is the good and the bad.

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I took a few of the good ones, lubed and loaded them over BE-86 for a 800-900 fps load. They shot accurate, but I noticed that the bore was leaded up pretty good for only 8 lead bullets. As a comparison, I was also shooting 105 and 158 grain lead Badman bullets in two 357 mags which had no leading in the bores.