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    Thanks for the offer BJung I purchased a toaster oven at Walmart for 20.00 and have some bullets cast from the Lee molds they worked fine for me.
    I have some powder coat from Harbor Freight and used some plastic BBs they don't look pretty but have the coating I think will work.
    I also have some lubed so I'm waiting for a good time to get to the range and see what the results are.

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    Here is some gas checks I found at a good price.
    The copper checks were 28.00 + Shipping
    and some finished bullets
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    I usually shoot offhand at gongs at 200 yards however if all goes well, I will try on paper and share the results

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    Caster and shooter of lead bullets for almost thirty plus years now and it's pretty much all I ever shoot in all my rifles and handguns. I started out using Lee two cavity molds and probably have about twenty of them as well as several six cavity Lee mold of designs I use a lot.

    I've only ever had one bad mold from Lee it was probably just bad QC on that particular one, I just replaced it as they were so cheap and the replacement was good to go, kept the other one for some parts. I have no problem with Lee molds if they make a design that fits my shooting needs, and all mine cast great bullets.

    I also have NOE, Lyman, Arsenal and M&P molds that cast bullets that the Lee molds don't cover, probably have around twenty or so of those as well, hard to keep up when you have a few. Most all my pistol molds are plain base except for a couple HP molds for HV 357 Mag. loads like my NOE clone of the Lyman 358156, all my rifle molds take a gas check except for my Arsenal 4 cavity .311" 170 gr. Ranch Dog mold that cast two gas check and two plain base bullets. I usually leave the gas check off for low velocity plinking loads, but put them on for everything else.

    I have and can lube bullets about every way possible, started out pan lubing back in the day, then moved on to using Lee Alox and later Alox/JPW lube, also have a RCBS Lube-a-matic and all the sizing die I use and enough lube to last me awhile, always nice to have a backup way to lube bullets if necessary.

    For the past several years, I've pretty much powder coated everything, it has lots of benefits but I like that I coat my bullet and store them in less than ideal conditions and not have to worry about lube degradation due to time, heat or cold. I started out using the HF Red and Yellow, both coated well when sprayed on but not so well using the shake and bake process, guess I to picky but I just didn't like the results so I found a few colors from Eastwood and Smokes over on the Cast Boolits forum that have served me well and I just stuck with those ever since.

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