[Green 912]

Don't melt your own lead if you don't have to. Lead oxide is the nasty part and unless you are careful all during the process of sorting the old weights and disposal of the slag you will contaminate your property and or yourself.

Take some time looking and you can get good deals on used equipment. look for deals on the consumables and you can save plenty of $ without messing up the place mucking around smelting lead. A case cleaner is very good to have as well.

I found that jacketed slugs ended up being worth the extra $ as they are clean, easy to use and produce good reloads that feed well. the gun barrels stay cleaner as well. Another good part of reloads is you can tune the power to the use. Light loads for paper target and the like.

Reloads are fine and all but the house gun has Hydra-shok in it. 13+1