One more endorsement for the 453200H, 5 cavity Accurate mold. Use the aluminum one with Bhn 15 alloy - casts 203gr perfect bullets and a pleasure to cast withI recommend the Accurate 453200H in aluminum 5 cavity
One more endorsement for the 453200H, 5 cavity Accurate mold. Use the aluminum one with Bhn 15 alloy - casts 203gr perfect bullets and a pleasure to cast withI recommend the Accurate 453200H in aluminum 5 cavity
Regards
John
RG1911: you will love a mould from Accurate; Tom does fantastic work. I use a 4 cavity brass Mihec 200 grain SCW (H&G 68 clone, plain base) and it's a pleasure to use. I'm pretty sure that Mihec has them in stock now if you are interested. The brass mould blocks aren't light like Aluminum, but with a mould guide this isn't an issue ofr me (I have arthritis too)...the brass block are easy to keep in the right temp (for me) and more durable than AL IMHO. I have Aluminum blocks too but prefer brass. Good luck.
Hello RG1911,
I received an e mail from Keith at Balisti-Cast this morning and he wanted to talk personally about the mold. We did that and the upshot is he is saying after aligning the pins the mold is producing good bullets no more than .0005" out of round.
I told him to return it to me and that would end it one way or the other. Depending on how the bullets look I would either use it or trash it.
FYI: I should also mention that according to Keith, Bill Sand doesn't actually run the business. It is Keith and the machinist who makes the molds who do.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
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I'm having trouble showing the photos I want in the body of the note but they have attached and will open.
As you all know there has been an issue with Ballisti-Cast regarding the quality of the bullets in the #34 mold I purchased. It has been sent back twice and this time both Keith and Bill told me it is fixed with a minor adjustment to the alignment pins. Bill even had me call him personally so he could explain what was going on with it. A few days prior to that I talked with Keith at his request and he told me about 50 bullets were cast after the alignment pins were adjusted and he saw nothing wrong with them.
I received the mold back today and took a photo of the bullets that are "good bullets" according to Ballisti-Cast after adjusting the alignment pins. Honestly, I'll pass. Along side it is a photo of three LBT bullets that frankly were rejects from a casting session. Two are .358" WFN and the middle is a .452" 225 LFN.
I'll leave it to you experienced casters to say if the Ballisti-Cast bullets are ones you would keep. I Won't and the mold is going in the trash (after removing the sprue plate and screws).
Frankly I feel like I have been lied to or at minimum had this misrepresented. And, by the way, I asked about RG1911's mold he sent back. I was told "I don't know if its here or not there are so many that have been returned"
Good Gawd, enough is enough.
Mike
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the only pic I see is one with 3 round nose bullets looking like .452 round nose/ I do not see any defects... but then again, I do not know what they should look like. list it for sale on ebay and cut some loss... I would not toss it.
on a second note, I cast just for plinking ammo and I might not see what a quality cast bullet should look like, but if there are soo many unhappy bullet casters out there, I would be ******** too.
Click on the lbt and the second photo will show up.
OK, I am looking at the 2nd pic. what is it that is not to standards? I can see that they have not been sized.
The mold blocks don't mate on the first set. On the LBT you can hardly detect where they mate because they are as they should be.
The difference is quality. My original H&G molds are the same as the LBT's, high quality.
what does LBT mean? I do see the base is not sharp and square. and on a third note........... how much bad P.R. would these guys need to see to fix the Q.C. and send a new mould that is correct?
Lead Bullet Technologies.
I said in my note the LBT's shown are rejects because they didn't fill out well but that's not the molds fault. Read my note and you'll understand. It was sent back to Ballisti-Cast twice so what you see is their acceptable standard of quality but it isn't mine nor anyone else I know.
I don't think those casts look bad at all and after sizing, they will shoot fine for my purposes. I will pay the shipping if you want to send me the mould blocks.
"Is all this REALLY necessary?"
I see alot of reference to the H&G 68 clone. would like to know what it looks like.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |