Modern Bond Mold #D-358627

[lead_her_fly]

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I posted about this mold back in December or early January. My wife bought it off of ebay for me for Christmas. The seller mis-described it as an H&G, that was the only reason she bought it.

I have to make the following statement though and I don't want folks to get the wrong idea. This is a wonderful mold and would be even if she wouldn't have bought it for me. I know, a lot of husbands say stuff like this when they get those things from the wifey that they really don't want. I wanted this and am mighty glad to have it and my wife! ;)

Here is some information on the mold.

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Here is about 45 minutes worth of work. There are a few culls in there. Nothing unusual in that. Real life photography! ;)

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The mold I have is supposed to throw bullets at 160gr. With the alloy I used today, 85% clip on wheel weights, 10% Linotype, 5% chilled shot, mine were coming out right at 162-163gr before lubing. Pretty close to design I would say.

These babies ought to move things around the old bowling pin table pretty good! Can't wait to let them go out of my daughter's M14 and the my M60! They ought to be fun to shoot.

Anyone else had any experience with Modern Bond molds?

This one is a keeper!

So far all I have shot under this is 3.5gr of Bullseye. I can feel a dose of SR4756 coming though!
(I just got this bigger jug today! ;) )
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With the two deep square grease grooves and the generous crimp groove, this is a candidate for some serious velocity! If it will chamber in the Marlin 1894 in 357mag cases this could be a lot of fun! ;)

[crazy mark]

Lots of experience. I sent the mold data for castpics. Floodgate who used to frequent here a lot was doing research on them and I loaned him my catalogs. They are nicely made molds and I haven't found one that didn't shoot as good or better than most Cramers or H&G's. I have about 10 of them and am always keeping an eye out for more. There is ones that are pretty common. Lots that you don't see very often. Mark

[SciFiJim]

Man what are those called? The "beer barrel boolit"? I have a Marlin .357. Those look like they would be a LOT of fun to plink with. What is the measurement from the crimp groove to the nose of the boolit? Most of the wad cutters I have seen were flush with the end of the brass. Admittedly I don't have a lot of experience with this yet. COL is supposed to be 1.59 but I know of someone who loads to 1.605 and feeds well in his Marlin. It would be fun to play with. I will have to look around for such a mold.

[lead_her_fly]

This sure got passed over! Anyone else ever used this brand of mold? What about the type of mold? Any favorite loads?

[EDK]

Look up LYMAN 358432 in 160 grain. It feeds in my unaltered MARLIN 357 Cowboy rifle in 357 brass....just slow to cast in a 2 cavity mould!

There was some discussion on a group buy on this, but it didn't take off. Maybe I need to send some yankee dollars to OLD WEST BULLET MOULDS (Did great on the 44 full wadcutter mould!) or MOUNTAIN MOULDS.

Too d--- many iron in the fire means nothing much gets done.

:Fire::cbpour::redneck:

[jameslovesjammie]

After your initial posting...I really wanted this mould. I watched Ebay for it and got out sniped on it about two weeks ago. Keeping my eyes open now!

[lead_her_fly]

Well, took two different loads to the range and tested them in my M686 6". Velocity was impressive BUT the other results were not.

I have a 158gr load that I use for the wife that came from the Speer #8 manual and I have had no problem with it in her M586 6" or her Marlin. The combination I worked up and shot today is another story all together!

My M686 has the frame mounted firing pin with a Cylinder and Slide extended one installed. The Wolf small pistol primers that I used in the test loads were extruded around it pretty bad. Much more than I expected. The velocity that I get from the load for the wife gives me right at 1250fps, give or take. The first one that I ran today gave me over 1375fps while the second was well over 1400fps. For the alloy that I used that is a "wee tad" too much pressure. So, back to the drawing board.

The two loads differ in bullet type, WC versus SWC, and this one sits much deeper in the case. To be honest, I wasn't expecting that great of an increase velocity because of that. The difference is only .030", lesson learned.

The powder I was using is very "lead friendly" and a proven performer with it, SR4756. Have to have another go round with this little jewel though.