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TCLouis
08-28-2014, 10:17 AM
I just got a mold in shipping from Midsouth and it is not a regular Lee catalog item, but is a 95 grain rounded nose truncated cone,tumble lube boolit.

Is this a spinoff design or leftover mold from one of the group buy 6 cavity molds from here?

Isn't there a sticky somewhere with drawings of all of the group buy molds . . . I swear I found it once or am I dreaming?

texassako
08-28-2014, 09:57 PM
Is it Lee's newer offering that is a slight redesign of the Ranchdog .380 mold but with a smaller meplat?

Bullwolf
08-28-2014, 10:08 PM
I have seen the 95 grain tumble lube boolit TL-356-95-RF before.

One shows available right now at Titan Reloading.com, and I spy a nice 6 cavity version on the Lee precision page.


http://leeprecision.com/images/T/xctmpYj6Yeu.png

http://www.titanreloading.com/molds/bullet-molds/9mm-luger-38-super-auto-380-auto/lee-dc-mold-tl35695rf

http://leeprecision.com/mold-6-cav-tl356-95-rf.html

I thought it to be a recent Lee offering, and I could swear that there have been a few threads here about it.

I have considered picking one up myself.

Are you talking about this RF Tumble Lube boolit, or another one?

- Bulls

tazman
08-29-2014, 11:31 AM
Lee lists that boolit on their first page under the heading 2014 new products.
There are threads here with pictures of that boolit shown.
I have that mold and the boolit shoots and feeds very well in my 9mm although it needed to be loaded to a short OAL in order to work properly.

HiVelocity
08-29-2014, 11:59 AM
Excellent bullet; I load it in both .380 and 9mm. You will like it.

HV

rintinglen
08-29-2014, 04:36 PM
I have the RD version and it is very good. Casts easily, loads quickly and feeds reliably in all three of my .380s. many report good results in the 9 mm as well, but I have not tried it there.