The Gold Standard for me is the LBT
425-230-LFN:
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When you seat it to where the diameter starts to reduce, your COAL is about perfect for 1911 mags, it feeds slick as a greased eel's boogers, and the flat point does a fine job demolishing water bottles and other kinetic targets.
When cast hard, it's pretty destructive, but can still penetrate a lot. At standard hardball speed of 830 fps, I recovered the bullet on the right from milk jug #9 in the stack:
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Not sure if Veral Smith is still playing, but his aluminum molds with their "cavitied" sprue plates are an absolute joy to cast with. Only problem is you have to run them through a lube sizer. To give me a similar tumble lube option, I started a group buy on NOE for this Ranch Dog designed mold:
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During the group buy discussion, some clever participant suggested turing the front lube groove into a crimp groove so it could be run in various revolvers as well, and the rest is history. Bought two molds - one for solids, and the other for knocking out small and large cavity HP's
The Accurate Molds 45-230 A, F, FT, H, and T will all get you to about the same place, depending on your exact preferences.
No real mystery to any of them - all about 0.6" long, with a meplat of .30" to .32"