Master caster? do you have once?

[geotndtwine]

Always see them online and kind of want one. But with the Canadian dollar and shipping I really don't think one is in my cards. I cant complain my father will cast with me and we can run 6-7 molds, so a days labour is fairly good, but when he cant make it I can only run 2-3 molds. Just wondering if anyone in Canada has one.

 

[Auggie Doggie]

My buddy has one that I borrow every once in a while (give him a case of his favorite in return). I'll cast several thousand rounds over the course of a couple of days. That reminds me, I need to call him up again.

He also has an older Bullet Master (MK IV I think).

Auggie D.

 

[wheelgun]

One in my shop, I have done close to 1,000,000 with it. Had to replace one heater (easy) and one controller (also easy) over the years. I make for myself and friends. Most casted in one day 6000, all were lubed same day but with 2 of us at it. I usually do about 1000 a day after that the right hand stops operating the press but the left hand keeps lifting the beer.

I have 1500 lbs of ingots ready to start this fall. I make 45, 38, 9mm and 40. All molds are from Magma. Make sure you get their mold release.

I also have the feed through sizer from them and make my own lube. 60% pure bees wax, 20% paraffin 20% Do All (has a mixture of lubricants in it including carnuba wax) and red candle wax dye. I have made my own three foot long mold for the wax and slice it in pieces correct length for sizer.

 

[johnone]

When we reloaded commercially we had a pair of the large Bullet Master machines.... Top quality all the way.
We ran them for years and produced millions of bullets....

We ran about 25,000 to 30,000 bullets a day, faster than that you will experience issues....

You can't go wrong with them
John

 

[aakoksal]

Always see them online and kind of want one. But with the Canadian dollar and shipping I really don't think one is in my cards. I cant complain my father will cast with me and we can run 6-7 molds, so a days labour is fairly good, but when he cant make it I can only run 2-3 molds. Just wondering if anyone in Canada has one.

I always wanted to have one when I was living in Europe. If I find a good deal, I'll probably jump on it.

 

[Auggie Doggie]

Well I borrowed my friends older MC last week and processed about 137lb of alloy. Ended up with about 1300 170gr .40 SWC, 1700 130gr RNFP .38's and 3500 147gr FP 9mm's.

The 9mm's and .40's

The .38's

PC'd about 1500 of the 9mm's so far.

Auggie D.

 

[slowfire]

I have used one for 2 season's now and I like it. I used to hate casting bullets ( in fact I think that is why I quite shooting BPCR silhouette) ,I bought bullets for cowboy action and with 3 shooters that was quite a few. A typical casting session for me now is about 2 1/2 hours. It takes about 45min. to heat the pot with a bit less than the 40lbs magma claim it will hold.
I run one pot full out in about 1 1/2 hours. That is 800 to 850 200gr. 44's, depending on how tight I am with the sprue's. I ran a pot full of .44 round ball's the other day and man can you make a potfull (pun intended) of them in short order. If getting a lot of bullets ready to shoot as easy as possible is what your looking for I recommend the Star lubesizer from Magma as well.
But I would not recommend the bullet feed option. For me it is just a pain in the butt.

 

[izthebye]

I've had one for about 6 months and have run a few thousand rounds of .45 and 9mm (Magma molds). Ran myself out of wheel weights! Excellent piece of gear and well worth the money if you shoot a lot. Excellent support and service. Made tumble lubes for 14 years and will probably never go back to them!

 

[slowfire]

I forgot to add that I happened to be down in the Phoenix area on a winter vacation and slipped out to Queen Creek and picked up all my gear at the factory. I got a tour of the factory and a quick lesson on how run it all. It saved the shipping , but does not help the loonie. LOL If you go this way, order well in advance as they do not seem to have a lot of inventory.