I need a mold!

[Duce]

OK, I tried to buy my way into some 7.62x25 bullets no luck so I need to buy one and get my butt to work. So I need to get a mold and its probable going to be a Lee mold for the cost ( yep I am cheap right now) It will be my first real try at molding my own since I was in my teens. Give me a mold number that you use for the caliber so I will not buy the wrong one. I know what I am doing its just been many years since I have done it. A single cavity mold will do.


Many thanks in advance.

[Wayne Smith]

I don't have a Lee catalog in front of me, but I'd think a 100-125gr gc boolit .30cal would do the trick. Do you want a TL design or a traditional design?

[missionary5155]

AS always... slug the bore first...If this is a Broomhandle get a reading at both ends. I have seen several pre-WW1 with LARGE chamber areas .310 - .314 that taper down to .309 - .311 at the muzzle. Broomhandles do shoot great with cast boolits of the proper diameter and hardness... BUT you must have that chamber diameter filled.

[leftiye]

Check your groove dimeter first. Mine (CZ52) is .314, and there are almost no molds in that diameter. I have a .311576 That I've lapped and beagled out to .316 for mine. Easiest answer might be a Lee custom, or Mountain mold.

[Duce]

OK, I sluged the bores and I have .311 for the first cz-52 and .309 for the second cz-52 now which mold should I get ?

[GrizzLeeBear]

Lee makes 2 rn and 1 swc molds for the 32/20 - 32 s&w that are 93 or 100 gr. that might work. For a gas check mold they make a .30 cal. 120 gr rn, probably drops boolits at about .311, so that could work.

[26Charlie]

Have not seen a Lee mold suitable, not to say they don't have one, but the RCBS 32-98-FP for the .32 S&W Long works great for the Tokarev cartridge. I posted a load for this in the shared loads.