Need help with mold terminology

[ElectricEric]

I am looking to get in to casting for my hand guns, 38 special & 45 acp. Any way I have been browsing the group buy section looking for hollow point molds and I came across a term that I am not familiar with, "Cramer style mold". Can someone explain this to me? And maybe post some picks showing the differences.
I am a complete noob to cast boolits.
Thanks for the help.

[ku4hx]

Complete with great pictures and a plug for Cast Boolits : http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=384111

[ElectricEric]

Thanks ku4hx! Very nice!
Gotta get me some!

[hickfu]

Boy that sure makes me want to cast for my 45's.... Love those hollow point molds.


Doc

[MtGun44]

If you have never cast before, I would suggest a plain mold before you start with a HP.

Walk before you run.

Bill

[snuffy]

This is the same boolit as the above link, just in a 4 cavity. .452 200 RNFP-HP

71178

71180

71179

And a .432

http://photos.imageevent.com/jptowns/general/websize/44%20mold%20007.jpg

The HP pins stay with the mold, sliding on two small rods. These are as easy AND fast as a solid mold to use. Those are MP molds made in Slovenia by Miha Prevec. Mine was a "group buy" here at cast boolits. He sometimes has extras from a group buy, check his website;

http://www.mp-molds.com/index.php?pr=Molds

[ElectricEric]

If you have never cast before, I would suggest a plain mold before you start with a HP.

Walk before you run.

Bill

Yah, I am waiting on some Lee molds right know. I figure with the time that some of these group buys take to complete l should probably get in line soon.

[rintinglen]

Cramer-Syle HP molds are by far the easiest HP molds to use.
I have three MP molds and am waiting on a 4th, and can honestly state that they are easier to get good boolits from than many standard molds, especially if you compare a brass MP HP mold with one of 45.1's excellent designs to an aluminum rifle mold.
That said, I'd still recommend starting out with a good, standard mold. It is easier, and cheaper, so should you find that struggling over a hot furnace is not your idea of fun, you will not be out as much.

[MtGun44]

Good point, some of the group buys do have a long lead time.
As rintinglen says, MP's molds are pretty easy to work with.

Bill