Ranch Dog Mak mold coming soon?

[Maximumbob54]

Ranch Dog is pretty close to making a Makarov bullet mold from a Lee six cavity mold. I'm seriously jumping the gun here since he is still putting the final touches on the design, but I really want to see this happen. So I'm pimping his product since there is such a lack of affordable Mak molds available and those Lee six cavity molds can make you a pile of fresh range fodder in a hurry!!! If anyone else agrees with me then maybe send him an email or keep an eye open. I will be buying one as soon as they are made and casting for it quick!!! My baby is hungry!!!

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[Maximumbob54]

The mold is now on order. As soon as I get it I will go into T/E hyperdrive mode.

[Ranch Dog]

Maximum is going to be testing driving my TL367-100-RF as soon as the test molds arrive. When everything checks out, it will be ordered for my store.

http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/bin/TL367100RF/bullet/TL367100RF.jpg

We first considered TL'ing and revamping the Lee offering but that bullet is about as lame a bullet as I've ever seen. When I look at a rifle bullet, its got'ta hunt and when I look at a handgun bullet, its got'ta defend me so I went with my typical Round, Flat nose sporting a large meplat. Using TMTs software, I matched the ogive radius of the CIP spec bullet to ensure dependable feed and then lopped the nose off so that it packs a punch. Tom himself checked the work with his chamber dimensions software, as is done with all my designs, and I think this will be a good bullet for Mak shooters.

http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/bin/TL367100RF/chamber/chamber01.jpg

Now that hunting season is coming to a close, I have or will soon have three other bullets in the testing line up. I will commit them to my store inventory as soon as possible.

There will be a fat 45 ACP bullet, TL457-240-RF.

http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/bin/TL457240RF/bullet/TL457240RF.jpg

A 240-grain bullet for the 44 Mag and 444 Marlin, my TLC432-240-RF.

http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/bin/TLC432240RF/bullet/TLC432240RF.jpg

And there will be a 300-grain bullet for the 45-70 Govt. and 450 Marlin 1895s.

http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/bin/TLC460300RF/bullet/TLC460300RF.jpg

The latter two bullets retain the same nose profile as my other .432 and .460 bullets. This insures a proper chamber fit despite the light weights, the bullet nose is the same length.

[leadman]

Did you compare your boolit to the Lee Group Buy of about a year or so ago? I have one of these and it feeds great and is accurate. The only issue is the lube groove could be shallower so the boolit drops from the mold easier.
I agree with your comments on the cataloged Lee offering. I suggested to Pat and Mr. Lee to offer the GB boolit with a shallower lube groove but it was a no go.

Looks like your boolit design should do well.

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
A fat .432 44 slug? I Intrigued! My Redhawk is "loose in the tube" at 431 and My 240 grain Lee TL mold drops at 429 :(

[Maximumbob54]

I am drowning in wait...

[Fishman]

I read about this offering on another forum while searching for cast Mak info. I am very interested in buying one when they come available. What is the expected time frame so I dont miss out?

[nanuk]

could be a useful squirrel boolit in a 9.3x57?

[Grapeshot]

I don't have acess to the software so I can not put a picture of the MAK bullet I sketched out for a friend of mine.

My bullet was a pointed nose bullet with the slope coming off the shank of the bullet at a 45 degree angle. Making a 90 degree point. My reasoning on this comes from an article I read while in Germany over 25 years ago. That particular design was addopted by the Germans using their 9x18 Ultra. This little sucker is a lengthened 9mm Kurtz, (.380 ACP) using a 100 grain bullet at about 1100 fps. The damage that it imparted on Balistic Gelatin was impressive to say the least. Far more disruptive than hollow points.

Needless to say, neither of us had the cash to have a custom mold or set of swaging dies made to produce this bullet.