thinking...........OH NO!

[XWrench3]

:bigsmyl2: i am thinking about two more molds, one for my 300 win mag, and one for my 45/70. i was looking at the lee hollow base 405g mold for the 45/70, my concern is i have heard that you have to keep the velocity way down on h.b. projectiles. is that true? i am not going to try getting 1800fps out of it, but 1300-1400 is a possibility. for the 300, i want as heavy as i can get. for some reason, the heavier the bullet, the better groups it shoots (with jacketed bullets anyway). i get sub-moa with 220's! my current 30 cal molds are 165 and 150. also, somewhere, i saw a photo of a heavy 30 boolit that had grease grooves almost to the nose. any idea what that might have been?

[dragonrider]

There are a number of Lyman mold in 30 cal. that are + or - a few grains of 200. several are of the loverin style. Others are more conventional........ you can see them here
http://www.three-peaks.net/bullet_molds.htm
perhaps you will recognize it there. Of course not every mold that Lyman makes, or made is listed there but I think most of them are there.

[XWrench3]

it says that they are lyman AND ideal molds, is lyman making the ideal molds, or is this just for referance?

[Hurricane]

Lyman bought the Ideal company and continued making the bullet molds. The molds marked Ideal are just a little older than the ones marked Lyman. There may be molds with both names stamped on it.