.45 colt start up

To find lead is up to you. To buy lead from a different province require Canada Post involvement and then will not be cheap anymore. Just go from tire shop to tire shop and find wheel weights. Some will ask money and some will give it to you for free. If you want cheap you'll have to work.
Overall to start reloading your own will not be "cheap" as you want. The initial investment will cost a bit but then will all well worth it.
To smelt and cast bullets you can get away with "cheap" but to reload your cast bullets won't be that "cheap" no matter what as a bunch of tools are required.
Again, the initial investment will make you spend some money no matter the shortcut you chose. To cheap and then you'll spend more money to replace the cheap reloading equipment with reliable equipment.
Read a lot about casting and reloading before buying. Do your home works well and will help a lot.
 
I too just bought a Rossi M92 in 45 Colt last fall. Just started some load development work. Because I load several other calibers I only needed dies. Bought a set of Lee 4 Die Deluxe. Very happy with them. I have so far tried the following bullets (all home cast- all sized 452.) 454190,452273 and 454424. I flattened the nose of 452273 in lubesizer. Powders tried so far are Unique, 231, Titegroup and Trail Boss. Not much difference in accuracy. I found them all a little "dirty". Maybe because I am shooting relatively light loads. Light loads of Unique in particular were very dirty with smoke coming out of the action for a few seconds after firing . This may be do inpart to my choice of lube. All were lubed with Dragon Lube Yellow which is relatively hard. So far my rifle isn't particularly accurate but after all I bought it as a big bore plinker and maybe for Cowboy Action Shooting
 
You just missed my EE ad with dies and brass - sold for $65 shipped. Budget Shooter supply and Rusty Wood have Starline brass. Budget was $38/100. I loaded some Hornady Frontier swaged lead bullets (.454" 255 gr RFN) with HS-6 and trailboss. The HS-6 loads were very dirty. They were also low pressure even with mag primers. 10 rds would get the barrel piping hot. Trailboss was noticeably cleaner but still relatively dirty. 70 rds back to back barely had the barrel warm to the touch. I had leading in the last few inches of bore with those bullets and the lube they come with. Tumbling them with about 10 drops of Lee alox and 35-40 bullets at a time got rid of all leading. These bullets were $60/200 at wholesale sports. If you can't buy local I'd suggest a commercially cast bullet like jethunter sells on the EE. The red dragon lube should work much better and he's a little cheaper than the Hornadys unless you can get the Hornadys locally. I've also heard you can use .45 ACP plated and jacketed bullets which gives you some good cheap bulk options. I haven't tried them.
 
supernova said:
You just missed my EE ad with dies and brass - sold for $65 shipped. Budget Shooter supply and Rusty Wood have Starline brass. Budget was $38/100. I loaded some Hornady Frontier swaged lead bullets (.454" 255 gr RFN) with HS-6 and trailboss. The HS-6 loads were very dirty. They were also low pressure even with mag primers. 10 rds would get the barrel piping hot. Trailboss was noticeably cleaner but still relatively dirty. 70 rds back to back barely had the barrel warm to the touch. I had leading in the last few inches of bore with those bullets and the lube they come with. Tumbling them with about 10 drops of Lee alox and 35-40 bullets at a time got rid of all leading. These bullets were $60/200 at wholesale sports. If you can't buy local I'd suggest a commercially cast bullet like jethunter sells on the EE. The red dragon lube should work much better and he's a little cheaper than the Hornadys unless you can get the Hornadys locally. I've also heard you can use .45 ACP plated and jacketed bullets which gives you some good cheap bulk options. I haven't tried them.
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We have ample stock of the 45 COLT Starline brass on hand at $36/100 or $173.00/500
We also carry all your reloading needs like primers, powders, loading manuals, tumbling media, tumblers, media operators, presses etc etc
Call, email or stop by.

Peter
 
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