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mainiac
09-08-2007, 04:40 PM
pick up this mold today (358480) at a gun show. Got home fired up the pot,and casted some. Book says it weighs 133 grains,but with my wheel-weights, it weighs 142, and i mean within 1 tenth of a grain! Never seen a bullet weigh so consistant. Anyways,have you fellers used this bullet,and what is your opinion of it? Its a plain-base,but i still have a desire to see how fast shell go! thanks,,, mark P.S. payed 12 bucks for it! HAW!HAW!HAW!

Pepe Ray
09-08-2007, 10:16 PM
Well nya,nya,nya. I got a 358429 /2cav for $15, so there:-D
Good show ,wasn't it? Wonder if they caught the creep that swiped the Randall.
If I'd had more time I'd have stood around scoping out the suspects.
BTW, congrats on the mold.
Pepe Ray

mainiac
09-09-2007, 07:59 AM
Well nya,nya,nya. I got a 358429 /2cav for $15, so there:-D
Good show ,wasn't it? Wonder if they caught the creep that swiped the Randall.
If I'd had more time I'd have stood around scoping out the suspects.
BTW, congrats on the mold.
Pepe Ray

know where you bought the 358429, same place i got my deals!!!! Had that 429 in my hand,but let it slip away. Yuors has nice square lube grooves, didnt know some idiot stole a gun,,,, details?

RayinNH
09-09-2007, 08:55 AM
mainiac, I'd be interested in your results. A fellow member at the range gave me a two holer of this mould a little over a year ago. I cast and sized about 500 for him as a thank you. I have some spares that I just looked at a few nights ago thinking that I should try them out. Nice looking boolit but the shape of them makes them hard to pick up out of the sizer die...Ray

45 2.1
09-09-2007, 09:37 AM
That boolit is excellent in the 38 super and auto. Extremely accurate at range, proven over thousands of shots at groundhogs.

Pepe Ray
09-09-2007, 11:01 AM
Mark;
It wasn't a firearm. A Randall sheath knife. Probably 3 or 400 bucks. The owner had a $200 reward for return of it.
Pepe Ray

beagle
09-09-2007, 05:43 PM
I load a bunch of them in the 9mm High Power and also in the wife's .38 Special. Nice little bullet for both applications. Cuts a clean hole in paper and will make a great small game and varmint bullet.

Mine runs 133.5 grains ready to load.

I've tried a few in the .357 Mag and you can really get some velocity out of them....but, I have a 358439 for the .357 Mag.

Good find./beagle

mainiac
09-09-2007, 07:19 PM
I load a bunch of them in the 9mm High Power and also in the wife's .38 Special. Nice little bullet for both applications. Cuts a clean hole in paper and will make a great small game and varmint bullet.

Mine runs 133.5 grains ready to load.

I've tried a few in the .357 Mag and you can really get some velocity out of them....but, I have a 358439 for the .357 Mag.

Good find./beagle

Shot some of them today, used my standard 358156 -1400 f.p.s. load of #9 powder. Think it might be to much for this bullet. They shot pretty wild! But then i tried my old stand by load with the 358156, and it didnt shoot as well as it should, so i think im the fault! Been shooting muzzle-loaders all summer, and this was my first time out with a handgun in 3 months or so. Hard to beleave how i get rusty from one style to the next! Was shooting 1000,s of shotgun shells a while back, and that really frigged me up for a while, started slapping handgun triggers!

Cherokee
09-10-2007, 01:51 PM
I have that mold and have never gotten my 38 Super, 38 Spl or 357 Mag to shoot it worth a hoot. It's been several years so I might get it out again for another round of testing.