Cast Bullets in a Hi Point Carbine

This is a video of a Hi Point 995, 9mm carbine firing 158 grain cast bullets. The bullet is a Lee .358-158 RF, tumble lubed and sized to .356-inch. Primers are Tula and the powder is NM-04 which is a Russian or Chinese (I forget which) copy of Dupont PB. If you don't have any PB, Green Dot works fine too. This is cheap shooting at its best: the brass is free (range pickups), the powder was something like $40 for an 8 lb jug, the primers were about $20 per thousand and the lead was free. The lube is a couple of bucks for 1,000 rounds' worth. That comes to less than thirty bucks for a thousand rounds. Ok, not fair since I already had this stuff before the current buying frenzy. But even if you have to buy Green Dot and pay $30 per thousand for primers, you can still come in at about the price of loss-leader .22 ammo, assuming you can scrounge 22 lbs of lead. If you have to actually buy lead for a dollar a pound, that still only puts you at $60 per thousand rounds. Build a backstop in your backyard so you can salvage at least some of the lead for reuse, and the next batch will be cheaper.