Looking to cast cowboy bullets and provide them to others. I have done a lot of small batch casting and have found a foundry for supplying preset alloy.
What I need is recommendations on a casting and sizing rig that will not kill me with labor to get to the point of making a paying hobby out of this. I see safeco has casters that pull 4000 bullets per hour, but wonder if that is really true...or if it is really half that with fill/refill and stuck clearing.
Any experience would be appreciated.

Here ya go:

http://www.magmaengineering.com/index.php

These guys can set you up no matter how "big" you wanna go!

Get out your wallet and brace yourself!

you can cast as fast by hand as you can with a master caster.
if you plan n making and selling cast you have to have production, and this means automation.
you need to be able to supply thousands and thousands of bullets, not hundreds.
will these be as good as small carefully controlled lots? no but the quantity is there.
you need to spend your time selling bullets not making them.

Use two moulds mimimum of six cavities in each if hand casting. Sizing is where you'll get slowed down. Invest in a Star Lubrisizer as its "straight through" method saves an great deal of time.

A heated base to the sizer? I never used one but used Mirror Lube so it wasn't an issue.

Postage costs are going to be a real killer today. This add on cost will make your bullets maybe too pricey for other than local pick up.

Try an offer a bullet style that is not generally commercially available. I sold Hensley & Gibbs 120 SWC-BB in 9mm and Hensley & Gibbs 160 Round Nose in 38 Special.

If you offer the same 158 grain 38/357 Keith type and 115 grain Round Nose 9mm as everybody else you will have to sell on price not uniqueness of product.

If you can get Hensley & Gibbs mould they are the best.

Machines are OK but really to get full production you need blowers, spares, etc., etc., and they must be closely watched.

Hey Lamar,

I have friends who make their bullets on a Master Caster, about 2000 per hour.

Rich
Buff Killer

rich:
if the bank would have cooperated, i would be casting for a living right now.
i went the custom [stuff not offered by others route]
with a smidge of commercial thrown in for the blaster guys.
but the alloying ,ordering, and the calls for an order that would take me two months to fill just got to be too much.
i guess sucsess killed me you would say.
good thing i like to shoot cast boolits as i have a pretty good mold selection for my personal use now.