While casting slugs and buckshot isn't that hard, one of the more tedious things to manufacture yourself is small game and bird shot. On the old American frontier they would use homemade dripshot, which had mixed results as to the quality of the shot, or they would do what the native tribes did and use river gravel.
Nowadays you can spend $300 or more on a Littleton Shot Maker, or you can just see how the Russians do it. The Russians seem to be doing a fair bit of home shot manufacture with simple, homemade gear. There are several good Russian videos but this is one of the better ones on YouTube. You don't have to understand Russian to understand everything this guy is doing. The quality and uniformity of the shot they are making seems to be rather good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdvJ3GOEzg
Nowadays you can spend $300 or more on a Littleton Shot Maker, or you can just see how the Russians do it. The Russians seem to be doing a fair bit of home shot manufacture with simple, homemade gear. There are several good Russian videos but this is one of the better ones on YouTube. You don't have to understand Russian to understand everything this guy is doing. The quality and uniformity of the shot they are making seems to be rather good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdvJ3GOEzg
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