Did you design that Accurate Mold?

[stu1ritter]

I've always liked a large meplat and after ordering one for my .44 I decided to have them done in .358 in tumble lube so I am responsible for 36-155WT and 31-100X. I'm waiting for the 31-100X but here are the others loaded. Larger is the .44 which is 43-215W and the 38 Special is the 36-155WT. Pretty soon I'll add the .32 version and then I'll have trash can, juice can and milk can.
Stu

added. 32 S&W, 32H&R, 38SPC and 44Mag

[kayak1]

I designed the:
46-350V
46-405V
46-430V
46-540V
All for my 45-70 Marlin Co-Pilot take down rifle...

I really liked the Beartooth bullets so I had him do a nose profile like BTB's and then added length to make what ever weight I wanted.... All nose profiles are the same, just the length is different


Doc

Doc,
Will the 46-540V fit in my 1895SBL or will it be too long?
Thanks!

[AKtinman]

I finally got out to the range today and tried these out. The 36-130W shot low from the old Heavy Duty, but it was accurate. The 27-2 liked it also.

The 43-240W grouped into a large ragged hole at 20 yards from my 29-3 over 4.5 gr Bullseye in .44 Special brass.

I'm very pleased with both molds and the accuracy of the boolits.

Thank you for a great product, Tom!

I asked Tom to modify the 36-130X to remove the gas check and have a plain base. The result was the 36-130W. This was my first Accurate mold and it really didn’t occur to me that I could have had the design scaled to 140 or 150 grains. The mold casts great and I’ve got 38’s loaded up, but haven’t shot any yet. Hope it shoots somewhere near the sights in my old 38-44 HD.

Later, I asked Tom to scale the 36-130W up for the 44, and the result was the 43-240W, which casts right at 240gr from WW.


Haven’t shot any of these, either, it’s been just durn cold here in Minnesota.

[popper]

31-145C drops 149.7, 0.313 with my alloy. For plain base 300BO and 30/30. No lube groove, smaller nose for coating and the base is NOT a GC but slightly rebated. Should get to 2k fps & good accuracy.

[devinp]

I designed the:
46-350V
46-405V
46-430V
46-540V
All for my 45-70 Marlin Co-Pilot take down rifle...

I really liked the Beartooth bullets so I had him do a nose profile like BTB's and then added length to make what ever weight I wanted.... All nose profiles are the same, just the length is different


Doc

I had Tom put a gas check on the 46-405V to make it 46-405VG and then I had him put together 46-525V and 46-525VG for me. I'm waiting for them in the mail right now and will try to post a pic w/ some information when I get the chance.

[Leatherhead Bullets]

Tom helped me design the 31-200Z.

Primarily designed for use with my 300 blackout. It does require a bit of mag modiication. Wanted a +/- 200 grn sub bullet that may do double duty in my '06. Didn't go long like others, because there is only so much room in the base of the mold for Erik O. to do a hollowpoint mold modification in a Magma block Haven't had a chance to load any in the '06 yet, but does shoot well in the 16" Sota Blackout loaded a bit short 2.04" and coated with Hi-tek.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_...=31-200Z-D.png

Nice thread BTW. I too like to see the whys and what-for's.

Chris

[jason f]

i kept trying to find a noe 312440 with no luck so i emailed tom and he put the 31-150l in there for me. liked the design so much i also got a 36-240l,45-340l,38-270h all designed for me by tom at the weights that i wanted. picture is of 30 cal,38 cal and 45 cal versions.

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they shoot great in my handi rifles. 30-30,357 max rechamber,375 winchester rebore and 460 s&w rechamber from 45 colt

[dancingbear41]

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Mine was 310-115C. I can't take all the credit though because it was a modification of another existing design. I wanted a flat nosed .30 Carbine bullet and he had 310-120B which had the profile I wanted but three very small grease grooves. I emailed Tom and asked if it could be made with two, deeper grooves in place of the three. Within 24 hours he had emailed me back and guided me to my mould in his catalogue. His service is second to none and the mould is fantastic and shoots brilliantly. I have since purchased a .45 mould but he already had listed what I wanted so I bought that one. I would heartily recommend Accurate Molds to anyone.

Simon.

[SquirrelHollow]

I designed:

43-425M
-Bore rider for .444 Marlin H&R Handi Rifle, allowing maximum case capacity. (Theoretically capable of achieving in excess of 2,200 fps in 22" barrels, seated to 2.920" COAL. Safely tested to 1,950 fps, before recoil started tearing the rifle apart.)
-Designed for maximum penetration on large game, without the nose shearing common to hard alloys.
-It works extremely well in 1:20" twist ballard rifled barrels, so long as it is sized for your chamber/throat and you can chamber it (no-go in a lever gun); and is stable down to at least 1,438 fps.
-At least two people are using this bullet as a 1 ounce 20 ga 'sabot slug'; and at least two others ordered the mold for black powder loads in custom rolling blocks.
-There were 4 versions of that bullet cut for me, including tests with engraving bands, a tapered nose, and different lube grooves. The current version in Tom's catalog is a great long-range bullet. But, if I were to do it again, I'd widen the meplat to at least .275" for game. I don't use hard alloys any more, and the meplat proved to be smaller than necessary, anyway.

43-390W -- "Boat Tail Wadcutter"
-Designed to be modified for hollow-pointing (hollow base, actually), after I crank out a thousand or so FB bullets.
-444 Marlin multi-purpose bullet designed only for a series of tests.
-Among other things, it was primarily designed to test the effect of shallow grooves on PC'd or Hi-Tek coated bullets; to test the effectiveness and feasibility of hollow-base bullets for deep-seating in .444 Marlin; and to test how well a "maximum length" coated bullet would work in a Micro-Groove barrel.
-Even having not cast a single bullet, if I were to do it again, I'd at least extend the shank to be long enough for a gas check. That shank isn't supposed to be there, but Tom had to step the diameter down due to an equipment limitation and my requirement for the wide end to be on the bottom of the mold (for hollow base conversion). I needed the length to remain the same, for testing, so I compromised on the step/shank.

[BPT]

Felix, John and I "designed" the 32-205b. All we did was talk about what we wanted it to be and decided on wanting either the 32-195b or the 32-215b. They are casting at 206.5 grains for me. Then we just said split the difference. We wanted something heavier than the RCBS 170 grain round flat nose, but no so heavy that we had to go dig up the boolits immediately after shooting them. It works well in the Yugo Mauser we have, although John hasn't put it on paper yet. But he does hit his steel targets (we also didn't want to go to heavy that it destroy's the targets quickly) more than he misses them so he is happy. Haven't gotten to test in anything else yet.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_...=32-205B-D.png

BPT

[RobS]

Another one I had a say in is the 45-230V for 45 ACP semi-auto. Also the 45-230T--however this one was just a thought through and never happened. None the less a wide meplat 45 Auto similar to the BD45 but with more draft to the meplat edges for "easier" feeding.

[Outpost75]

Outpost update on my Accurate designs:

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31-114D Use 2.5 grains of Bullseye in .32 S&W Long, 3.0 grains in .32 H&R Mag. and. 32-20, Nominal .314 diameter in wheelweights.

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31-125D Diameters reduced for. 30 cal. rifle "Cat Sneeze", shape optimized for. the .30 M1 carbine with 11 grs. #2400 and. 30-'06 SAAMI sporting chamber with 5 grs. of Bullseye.

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31-134D heavy bullet for .32 S&W Long rook rifles with 6 grs. #2400, will stabilize in 16" twist subsonic.

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31-155D Appleseed Trainer for. 30-'06 Springfield with 6 grains of Bullseye, also useable in 7.62x39, .30-30, .308 Win., 7.62x54R.

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36-155D .38 "Colt Special" loosely based on Modern Bond bullet use 3.5 grains of Bullseye in the .38 Special. Good in 9mm revolvers with 3.2 grains of Bullseye.

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43-225D .44 Special loosely based on Modern Bond bullet, 1930s. Use 5 grains of Bullseye.

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45-245D for .45 Auto Rim, ACP revolvers, Colt New Service, S&W. 45 Hand Ejector with 4.2-4.5 grains Bullseye. NOSE INTERFERES in rifling of M1911 PISTOL!

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43-200Q .44-40 with tight neck chamber and large groove diameter, size the enlarged nose to fit throat.
Very accurate cast 1:30 tin/lead with 6.5 grains of Bullseye (1142 fps in 20" barrel) in Winchester '73 or Colts (897 fps in 5-1/2" revolver).

Max. 7.2 grains of Bullseye for Winchester 1892, Marlin 1894 (1276 fps. in 20" barrel) and Ruger Vaquero (970 fps in 5-1/2").

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43-230G doubl crimp groove, bevel based for multi-purpose applications, .44 Russian, .44 Special, .44-40, .44 Magnum. Very accurate with 7.2 grains of Bullseye in .44 Magnum in 1:30 tin/lead alloy 1200 fps. in 20" barrel, 955 fps in 5-1/2" Ruger.

[fredj338]

More of a modify than design, but the 40-195G is my addition. A little bigger meplate & shorter nose.
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_...=40-195G-D.png

[cajun shooter]

Back in 2007 I was preparing to start shooting SASS cowboy shoots. I'm a 100% real BP shooter and finding bullets that held enough lube and were accurate was a tall job. The big lube molds that Dick Dastardly was selling were fine for close targets but terrible for long range as they tumble. The reason being the huge amount of lube at the base area of the bullet.
I wanted a bullet to shoot in the 44WCF cartridge. The Lyman 42798 that later became the present day 427098 was the original design when the 44wcf was released to the public in 1873. That bullet had square shoulders and deeper lube grooves than the present day Lyman bullet being made. The Lyman bullet was accurate but just would not hold the needed lube for BP.
Blammer had helped me with a design but it needed some tweaking. I took the basic design of the 427098 and made the lube groove shoulders sguare instead of round and deepened them by twice the volume. This gave the bullet the ability to hold enough lube for BP but still maintain it's accuracy.
It's been a huge success and has had other bullets designed from it for shooting BP in the 44wcf aka
44-40 cartridge. The proper loading is to crimp over the edge of the top band with a roll crimp. The catalog number for my bullet is the 43-210B.
Tom, was not known by very many people at that time, I could place an order on Monday and receive it that Friday. Ha!! Ha!!
Do a search and you will find a posting written by me telling the members of Cast Boolits about this new mold maker in Utah. The trend at that time was to go in with a Group Buy from Lee and wait up to a year for a mold that may or may not work. My last Lee GB mold had 6 cavities that were different. I started doing business with no one but Tom. I'm happy to see Tom doing so well these days. He is a true artist and deserves all of his accolades.
My close friend and fellow 44wcf shooter, John in Erie, Pa. known as 30wcf and 44wcf did a ton of testing with my bullet at ranges up to 300 yards with great results. He even posted a video showing one session on the Cast Boolit forum. Watch it. Take Care David aka Cajun Shooter aka Fairshake SASS 81802

[Hardcast416taylor]

I thought that since there were a growing number of paper patch shooters and an already large number of 8mm Mauser shooters, why not make a mould for the 8mm that is a PP? What we came up with is mould #32-200P on the Accurate catalog.Robert

[popper]

31-142C = 3R ogive FP PB slick side for 300BO.
31-145C. = 2R ogive FP PB slick side for 300BO but works great for light loads in 308, 30/30.
Easy 1700-1900 fps with near MOA @ 100.

[McFred]

I asked Tom to tweek 51-700B to have a radius for the meplat and a beveled plain base for use in a suppressed, sub-sonic, mag-fed .510WSM wildcat of mine. If he'd allow me to go longer than 1.375" OAL I'd consider a much heavier, longer nose profile, but I think 700gr will get the job done for now. I won't be able to try it for a long while but I'll update this post when I get a chance. At some point I might send it off for hollow-pointing depending on how effective it is on feral pig.

So this is mine now:
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_...=51-700C-D.png

Update:
Looks alright given it's the first time I've ever cast. 700gr from range scrap. I recycled a lot back to the pot, but ended up with about 55 projectiles.



*another update*
Found a good subsonic load. In a gun I smithed together, using a chamber reamer of my own design, shooting a projectile of my own design, cast by me from lead I reclaimed, I think ±1.1MOA at 120 yards is just fine.
6 on top starting with a cold clean bore, and 5 more on the bottom.

[Boolseye]

Tom modified the 38-235R into a 300 gr., plain based design. Behold! The first 379300D. http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_...=38-300D-D.png

[MBTcustom]

Thread updated with my latest contribution: the 31-160G AKA 30XCB HUNTER.

This bullet has proven to be a slam dunk in 30 caliber rifles of all kinds with all bore conditions. very easy to get accuracy with, and when used in slow twist barrels, speeds of 2500FPS have been easily obtained.

[jmort]

I did not design it but Tom did design it for me. I wanted a 200 grain .357 mag uber-bullet for my Blackhawk with TL micro-grooves. There is a conventional groove that was added at the same time.



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