[Mad Reloader]

Hmmm...

1) If you haven't done so already, melt down & skim the dross from the casting metal you're going to use--if needed.

2) blend the metals as needed in your melter/casting furnace

3) Hopefully you've whomped up a batch of your fave lube in advance.

4) Get the molds ready. A drop of regular Alox on the hinge(s), candle soot on the insides--especially on those bronze/brass molds (beware of flux getting in contact with that kind of mold, period!)

5) Have you got a pair of hot mill gloves? Hopefully you have a set on hand, especially B4 you started rendering down and alloying

6) No food, no beverage, no smoking and no dipping snuff while casting. You want to ingest as little lead as practical.

7) Oh, and hopefully you remembered to wear some eye protection at the start of all this!

8) Warm up the molds by resting them on a portion of your melter that's gonna get hot--or be prepared to do a couple of practice casts that are going to be all wrinkled and/or with imperfect hollow points & bases, etc...

9) If your setup allows, watch for temperature while you're casting. Overheated mold/metal will give a grainy projo that might shatter upon mold release (big problem with hollowvbases such as Minies and shotgun slugs. Then you have to get the fragments out) Too cool and you get wrinkles and the like coming back

10) Periodically put your ingate/cutoffs back in the melter. Otherwise you are going to run out of metal, and will have to wait for all the globs to "get up to temp" before re-start.

11) Inspect all your finished projos once you're done. Those deemed too defective need to go back in the melter for the next round

12) If you're a fan of Lee Liquid Alox, remember that you'll need a SECOND alox-ing after you size the projos. Don't size them prior to any lubing at all, it's going to mess up yourt sizer-izer!

That's the 1st 12 things that came to mind about what to do, bud...