I had to run my lee pot a little hotter than normal for this mold also. Once you get it up to the right temp, that mold starts to rain boolits.
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I had to run my lee pot a little hotter than normal for this mold also. Once you get it up to the right temp, that mold starts to rain boolits.
I am going to cast with the small pins with a plan to use them on deer.
What alloy would you guys suggest. I have been using 50/50 plus 2% with my 429421. Running them at 1300fps only gives a slight expansion.
I have a lot of pure lead and around 10 pounds of pewter ingots.
What about 16-1 at the same velocity?
BTW the Keith bullets kills them but one of my hunting spots is a small piece of ground next to another property that is a huge ticket. With the 429421 they have a tendency to cross onto the other property and into the ticket before expiring. They also will travel several yards before bleeding.
I am hoping this bullet will solve this issue.
I casted up about 15 lbs worth two weeks ago using 90-5-5. It was set up wit large pins and they averaged 248. This is a 434-640 gc mold. Looks like the same pin as my 477-640 mold, BIG.
Thanks for the info.
Having killed a fair amount of deer in the last 30 years, I do agree with shot placement being the most important. I have taken deer with a bow that never went out of sight, then Shoot the next one in the same exact spot and they run a 100 yards.
Heat cycle them molds about 20 times then they really start making nice bullets. I have a can of Felpro moly spray lube from a job I worked about 20 some years ago. I spray the pins with. It makes the bullets just fall right off from the first cast. Once the mold is completely broken in and has a good patina on it the moly is not needed anymore on the pins.
Just be very careful of not running a very tin rich alloy and these will last a very long time!
Shuz: no L on mine. Still too hot to do much of anything in the shop.
Randy