Ok, here it is....I recently bought two new molds. Both are Lees. One is the .30 cal 230 grain for subsonic loads in the 300BLK. The other is a gas check design 155 gr .312 for the Mosin. Both were cleaned exactly the same way, lighter fluid wash with cavity clean out using swabs. A good thorough cleaning done twice to make sure no oils were left. I used my normal prepared boolit metal which I've used for 10s of thousands of boolits. Knowing that the 230 grainer was/has a reputation for casting problems, I cranked up the heat and fluxed the metal carefully. I used exactly the same pot of metal for both boolits. One mold cast near perfect boolits right from the start. The other mold gave me 50% garbage for the first 200 rounds. The question is why? But here is the head scratcher, it was the everyday 155 that was the problem, not the 230 grain subsonic! Everything was identical except the mold. I preped the molds exactly the same way. I checked for burrs using the swabs and removed them. I smoked the molds as is my usual practice using the same candle on both. I pre-heated both molds using the dip in lead method to bring them up to temp. So why did one mold give me problems and the other didn't? Was I holding my tongue wrong? Or were the mold Gods frowning? Darned if I know....