Growing up, my grandad always made his own bullets, which often doubled as lead weights for fishing. The bullets work great. We usually used either wheel weights or sheets of lead from off from the roofs (my dad and grandad are both hot tar roofers). A couple of times a year we would be cooking lead on the fireplace and pouring into one of his old molds. Simple, and effective. Funny, I am new to muzzleloading, but now that I am getting interested in it again, a lot of things come back to me from my childhood.