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Studman, if your idea is to use an electric pot and hand held molds, You would be better off working part-time somewhere. Even with 4 or 6 cavity molds it's hard to cast over 300- 200 grain bullets an hour. If you had some monster pot that holds over 100 pounds of lead, then you could double that. The time robber is when the pot runs low, you have to replenish the pot. That means it takes 10-15 minutes for it to return to casting temp, then it needs to be fluxed. Figure 20 minutes every hour needed to wait for the lead to heat up.

You can get a melter to keep lead near casting temp to feed the main casting pot. Or a hot plate to heat up ingots to reduce the warm-up time.

I know a couple of guys locally that tried it with hand molds. They had about 20 different bullets they sold at local ranges and gunshops. Their bullets were first rate, but they got real tired of it, quit after a year. I don't know if they had the proper licenses or insurance.