Made in USA initially sounded very nice but ended up being poor quality with such a non-time-consuming production technic & inexpensive part from Lee
I initially left a 5-star review for this mold because even though this mold only allows you to make one slug at a time, after approx 100 slugs everything was going good and it's well worth the extra time to cast my own slugs and reload the hulls that I been saving from shooting ranges. Have you bought a box of 12ga slug shells lately? Not sure about your area but here in eastern Ohio, I couldn't find even a box of 5 basic slug shells for under fifteen dollars!!! I was very fortunate to call at the right time the only recycling center in our area that resells to the public...one of the local plumbing contractors had just dropped off a load of soft lead pipe and the recycling center sold it to me for 60cents per pound. After the process of melting it down into 1lb ingots, I was left with nearly 300lbs but then only after casting approx 3 hundred slugs the center part of the mold that casts the conical shape into the rear of the slug fell off.
Well as soon as it cooled down and I picked it and it's screw up, I immediately seen how pathetic of a job that Lee did with ONLY providing a screw that goes in LITERALLY 3 threads. They could have EASILY drilled, tapped, and used a longer screw that would keep it held in MUCH more securely. So I tried to put it back together but then found out that the threads the screw went into were now stripped because it wasn't apparent that it was coming loose while I was casting and tapping (yes gently) on the mold to release the slug. So right in the middle of me having nearly 20lbs of molten lead in the pot and having to get 1500 slug shells made whereby I make 500 for each of my brothers for Christmas, I now have to drain the pot back into 1 lb ingots and wait for a day when there's not a foot of snow on the ground and I can make it out to my garage in my wheel chair to drill the hole deeper, tap it, and get a longer screw for it...I mean good grief...why make everything else good quality on these molds and then for Lee to do such a lame job on the screw for it of all things?
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