Mold Addiction

[Smk SHoe]

Has anyone else here talked friends into buying a new rifle or pistol in odd caliber's just to have a excuse to buy a new mold. I've almost got more molds in caliber's I don't own than what I shoot. I may be a little bit of a Rat B@#$#@d, but is getting them to fork over the $ to buy the new NOE mold for their new gun wrong.:twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:

[leftiye]

Do not take orally, or internally - addicting!

[Leadmelter]

I started with a Lee 20 lbs pot and a few RCBS 2 cavity molds. I stopped casting because lead bullets were so cheap it did not make sense.
A few years ago, it dawned on me that I had all the equipment , I should start again and then I found this website that introduce to NOE, Miha and Accurate.
Before I knew it, I was in the $1K club at NOE.
Last total was about 85 molds.
Leadmelter
MI

[nagantguy]

Hello I have an addiction; it started innocently enough with a lee pot and lee 2 cavity mold to make shooting idpa more cost effective after my daughter was born, spent today barely 13 years later building my ultimate reloading beach and shelving for my molds and dies, found a whole milk crate full of molds I didn't even know I had or needed, lots of duplicates of ones I already have my Meha shopping cart currently has 4 more molds I'll order after taxes, one for a rifle I don't own yet; but just think of all the money I've saved!

[minmax]

Add another Michigander to the list! $1000 club at NOE. Plus about 75+ Lyman, RCBS, MP, Accurate, etc........
Wow, how they grow. Now which ones do I send Erik to hollowpoint?

[minmax]

Hey are we going to meet up for lunch again?

[Leadmelter]

WOW, 3 Michiganders in a row. I'm over in the Warren/Sterling Hghts area. Lunch would be good on my off days from chemo.
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Leadmelter
MI

[Leadmelter]

By the way, I just had Erik do a 457133 Lyman with a hex pin. Boolits cam out at 290grs and .459.
Leadmelter
MI

[FISH4BUGS]

I have bought Hensley & Gibbs moulds that I don't have a gun for. They were a good deal and in great shape, and I bought them. I traded a bunch of cast bullets for 44 special brass. Now I need to find a 44 special gun. Does that count?

[dragon813gt]

I'm not part of this club. I'm not buying molds or guns in calibers/cartridges I don't already own. Main reason I haven't bought a 45/70. Getting set up to cast for a new caliber gets expensive when molds and sizing dies are involved. Last one I did this for was a 375 H&H. Have absolutely no need for that rifle but spent hundreds on casting equipment for it. I refuse to do this again.

[Drew P]

I recently crossed that line as well, purchased a Miha 9mm Mould and I don't even own a damn 9mm. Or, I should say I DIDNT at that time ;)
Staring at the powder aisle at cabelas the other day and old dude walks up and mentions that I have the "sickness" too. I said yeah, one of these days I'll start "saving money" by reloading. He just laughed.

its an illness.

[marlin39a]

NOE molds are like Heroin to me. But I love my addiction!

[Boolseye]

Good to know I'm not alone. I just like holding them sometimes :)

[Yogi]

It must be a sickness, I don't think there is a cure. The other half said she counted 28 molds (she hasn't found the ones that came in the last week or two.) She thinks I've got enough. All I can say is I need another mold. She wants to know what I'm going to build with all those silver bricks. She says they seem to be mating as there is more of them every so often.

[sw282]

About the only TWO words l type on ebay are Hensley & Gibbs....

[TexasGrunt]

I've just gotten started on boolit molds.


But I have around 130 lure and sinker molds. I've got it BAD.

[Boolseye]

It's art

[dmccord]

I am in Michigan and Al send me a email telling me I am in the 1000$ club (I did not even know what he was talking about at first). I had to celebrate by purchasing another mould.

[jmort]

I believe I am in the $2k Club if Al would just start one.

[chboats]

it's not an addiction. You are storing your molds to close to each other. They are reproducing. I was storing them in a big ammo can and there is almost 100 by now

Carl

[William Yanda]

it's not an addiction. You are storing your molds to close to each other. They are reproducing. I was storing them in a big ammo can and there is almost 100 by now

Carl

It's because it is dark. Put a light inside that ammo can!

[OS OK]

I kinda look at it a little differently...having moulds is almost like printing money!

[Harter66]

I've tried to not buy more than 2 moulds for a cartridge......... That worked .....
I have 6 for a 45-70 I got in March ....... I've traded 2 away . I think I have 6 for 45 pistols , plus a 360 gr Minnie and a 280 gr Minnie hybrid that could in a real pinch load Colts , Schofield and 45-70 .