Congrats!
Make sure you get your bullet molds NOW. Elec furnace is nice and convenient but you can melt wheel weights and lead on an open fire. Finding the bullet molds you need when the SHTF problematic. Oh, and snag the wheel weights when you can. Check reload forums for various alloy qualities and lubes.
After the last ammo shortage I started reloading. And boy am I glad. Today I reload brass (various rifle, pistol, and revolver) and I’m setup to load shotshells, too. I’ve never cast my own bullets though. I just bought a basic casting setup and I’ve got about 200lbs of wheel weights, but I’ve yet to get molds.
Lead wheel weights got banned a while back in CA, but you can still find lots of them along the freeway, or get them from tire shops still removing the old ones.
If you use them in BP revolvers, they are kind of a tight load because the alloy is a little harder, benefit is they seem to group tighter, drawback is they make them even more involved to clean ‘cause they foul a bit more...
I use them in my pair of 1858 New Army .44’s all the time.