You needn't remain single- just get her to do your casting so you can devote full time to shooting the little buggers. Then you could let her solve the problem of picking up the hot slugs, too. 
Oh, I almost forgot- make her use a single cavity mold, 'cause they are much better.

Cat_Whisperer wrote on Aug 31^st, 2015 at 11:58am:


Without a second pair of hands, how would you do that and still keep the mould hot?

single with a lade here    Keep your bases sharp on the edge and you will be fine.

Again, thanks fellas. 

Lots of good information here.

I bottom pour also, and have done so for many decades. As for stopping; I leave the last bullet cast in my mold if I have to stop to sort, or move things around. It keeps the molds from cooling down too far, and having to possibly toss the first bullet again.
I don't weigh as I cast, but if I did I'd simply leave a bullet in the mold to keep the mold warm.

I just finished casting a batch of bullets for the upcoming match. I have never paid any attention on how long it takes so I made note of it today. I cast 118 bullets a session should I find any with visual deffects to end up with a 100 match quality and that is the only sorting I do. I also haven't weighed bullets for years but I did so today to share my findings. Casting time 28 minutes roughly 4.5 bullets per minute, weight variation 3 tenths. These were cast at my normal relaxed pace, I did not push to see how fast I could do it. But if I were to slow down the pace to let the sprue set longer than required my weight variation would not have been acceptable and the whole lot would have ended up back in the pot based on my 15years of casting experiance.

Single cavity mould and ladle poured.

I hope this is helpful to a new caster, once the sprue has set you cannot go to fast,
but to go any slower would probably require you to continue weighing your bullets. 
My acceptable match as well as practice tolerance is 4 tenths and I do not keep any left over bullets from a session for foulers they all go back into the pot.

JLouis

I'm sure its a temperature issue, but any of you fellas find that if you leave the ladle nozzle in the sprue-plate taper for more than about 3 seconds the melt in the ladle solidifies for a second, and then pours out to make the sprue?

This first batch of 323 bullets I was casting at a target of 725* . Perhaps I should set the temperature a little higher on the pot, I'm not sure. I've read that the higher the temp, the quicker the tin separates and maybe even evaporates, from the melt. That's something I'm trying to avoid.

Ah well. I'll continue to experiment, once my RCBS Pro Melt returns from warranty.

Good advice re: weighing bullets for awhile. Also good advice of laying them out in the order they were cast, as then I can get a feel for the number of rejects before the setup starts to cast good bullets. 

Glad you guys are here to offer your experience and advice.