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I really like the Win '92 action and it is one of the strongest lever actions made. Rossi makes one in a 454 Casull. I push .45 cal. 255gr cast bullets about 1,650 fps using Unique in the lever actions and about 1,100 fps in Ruger Bisleys. I also have .45 ACP cylinders for these pistols.

You should look at getting a production pot and click here for a great source for bullet alloys. Otherwise watch out for those pesky surveillance cameras in the Walmart parking when collecting wheel weights! ;-)

We have the RCBS pot . . . the turkey fryer and the kitchen sink are simply the first stage to get valve stems, cigarette butts, candy wrappers, etc. out of our 5 gallon buckets of wheelweights. A friend of a friend runs a small tire shop and has never bothered to sign up with the recycling people. So we send him 5 gal plastic buckets and they come back full of wheelweights (and valve stems, cigarette butts, and candy wrappers. One of his mechanics smokes. The other one doesn't, but he eats Snickers and Raisinettes).

Thanks for the link to the metals source. Always great to have a backup in case the free source runs out!

We don't shove these bullets too hard because of rules and also because wheelweights wouldn't work so good then (or we'd have to put gas checks on 'em). And the targets are real close so you don't need a lot of oomph. Some people in the club download until the bullets barely roll out of the barrel, but shooting .38 instead of my usual .45 ACP I don't even notice the recoil with fairly standard loads. We did switch to Clays from Unique because as much as I love that powder it's FILTHY and after 6 stages of around 25 rounds each we have 4 firearms each to clean!