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mattw
12-18-2016, 08:54 PM
Looking for a mould for this bullet. This is a 158 grain RN with a tiny flat nose. I would love to identify it so that I can make more.

183071

Thanks Matt
Kraschenbirn
12-18-2016, 09:22 PM
Those look like some I've got left over from the old Bull-X Bullet Co. which was located in Farmer City, probably not all that far from you. I knew the original owners of the company quite well (shot on the same pistol team with one of them) and put an awful lot of their product downrange. They had all Magma casting equipment and all their molds, except for some proprietary designs for specific wholesale customers, were all Magma products. Bull-X used that blue, paraffin lube for everything and yours look to be the Magma '38-158 BB RN'. Bull-X was sold about 15 years ago and, subsequently, went out of business just a couple years later.

According to their website, Magma still offers that mold but for manual casting it requires "modified" RCBS mold handles.

Bill
mattw
12-18-2016, 09:35 PM
That is likely where they came from. Literally bought a couple of truck loads of bullets between myself and 2 buddies. We shot with Carter and company often at Oakwood. I miss the old operation! I still have stock of a few thousand of their 45's and 357 180's!
runfiverun
12-18-2016, 10:24 PM
it's this one.
2nd row down 12th one in.
you should be able to get it in a flat base also.

http://www.magmaengineering.com/PDF/BBOct132008b.pdf
rockshooter
12-18-2016, 10:35 PM
you get that tiny flat nose from using a SWC seater plug
Loren
runfiverun
12-19-2016, 12:39 AM
they were more than likely sized nose first, and probably in a collated machine.
the little flat would be from pushing the previous boolit out of the size die.
mattw
12-19-2016, 01:41 AM
Nope, they are that way in the box... The company that sold this box is gone and so is Bull-X. I think it was a problem with the cherry or original mold.


you get that tiny flat nose from using a SWC seater plug
Loren
masscaster
12-19-2016, 10:59 AM
Lyman #358311 is the 158gr. RN version. It's also plain base.
Accurate Moulds has some versions of the boolit.

Jeff
Kraschenbirn
12-19-2016, 11:13 AM
I think runfiverun hit it right. Bull-X had the first automated lubrisizers I'd ever seen first hand and they used rotary collators...similar to Dillon case feeders...and fed the boolits nose down. This was back in the mid-1980s when their shop was the ground floor of an 1880's mercantile building right on the town square.

Bill