For casting my bullets I use a Lee Bottom Pour Pot. Now that all my lead has been cleaned and formed into ingots, I move inside the basement. They are cheap, light weight and they cool quicker. But what I now use are small muffin tins. Concerning ingot molds….I have several, Lyman, RCBS, Saeco etc. Once I have these ingots made they can be used in my electric pot inside, albeit in the basement. I perform the initial melting outside because most WWs are very dirty. It has been brought to my attention that some women seem to have a rather unhealthy attachment to their cookware. A word of advice here, consult your wife before taking one of her pots. To do this I use a 40 year old Coleman camp stove that I have converted to propane and a four quart cast iron pot. Once Ive acquired a decent amount of WWs I melt them down into clean shiny ingots. A 12 pack will generally get me two five gallon buckets full. Be friendly, once he realizes that you arent the usual yuppie that thinks hes nothing more than a sub-human grease monkey you have just guaranteed yourself a steady WW supply. Don’t just get your tires, then ask for some WWs, you will probably get them but it will cost you. Yes you heard me right….a little beer goes a long way. I was a mechanic for a large number of years so this is the inside scoop, write this down somewhere.īEER. Everyone knows that you say? Theres more. Here is a little hint when it comes to collecting WWs. Yes, it could be harder but we will get to that later on. They are cheap if not free, a almost perfect alloy of lead, tin, antimony and even a little arsenic. Wheelweights are, in my opinion, the greatest thing to have ever happened to casters. Im a lazy man.The standard Lyman #2 alloy is an excellent alloy however Im too lazy to take the time to mix it and too cheap to buy it so I was left with the only thing I could think of. I can already see the raised eyebrows, so let me explain. Well, lets see.If you have actually found this site you are either desperate or have progressed beyond the basics of casting so the basics will be dispensed with, at least for the time being. This page will always be a work in progress because Im always learning new things and because my typing skills leave much to be desired.If you have any information, opinions or questions please feel free to contact me. Im trying to put together this page because Ive noticed that there is precious little information available on the internet concerning lead bullets and that what information is available is spread out in small bits and pieces. Some of these reasons are supportable with fact and some of them are just opinion. Since then, I've come up with a lot of other good reason. I've been doing so for quite awhile now but I'll be the first to admit that I started doing it simply because I'm cheap.

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