I have found harbor freight in any color dont cover well. They changed there formula. And I will 2nt the Eastwood ford blue and light blue. They both work well.
I make 7 1/2 and #5 shot. I cast #4 buck and 00 buck. I dont sell but do trade on the halves. 50 lbs of lead wheel weight will get you 25 lbs of shot. All shot is tumbled in graphite.
Got mine in the mail yesterday. This pic is after the handle was scraped, sanded, torched, sanded again and first coat of blo. After I get about 10 more coats of blo I will make a leather handle guard for it. Still debating if I'm going to strip the sides of the head of the paint and polish it.
I have a tool head set up for case prep. Decap resize in 1. In the priming station I have the swage tool and the dillon case trimming tool in the 4 station. With the case feeder I can process alot of brass. Tumble the brass change tool heads and back to loading.
One thing about a rcbs 505 is it will never need batterys and its accurate. Check 5 different digital scales and you will have 3 to 4 different weights.
The 125 tc is what I cast the most of. I have never had a problem feeding. Are you powder coating? I will never go back to lube for the boolits. I run all my powder coated boolits through a lee push through sizer. Just to make everything more consistent.
I have also found the semi wad cutters and truncated cones fly better than round nose. I don't even cast rn any more. I'm even recasting the rn I have to cast tc.