Looking for a mold for a s&w colt revolver and a 45 colt Henry rifle.
Would a H&G 34 be a good mold for both of these and also sized for 45 auto handguns too?
Looking for a mold for a s&w colt revolver and a 45 colt Henry rifle.
Would a H&G 34 be a good mold for both of these and also sized for 45 auto handguns too?
The H&G #34 is an excellent choice for the 45 acp / 45 auto . It replicates the USGI ball profile.
For 45 Colt, that will depend on the revolver, the #34 is listed as .452 and some 45 Colts are .454 are larger. The revolver's throat and barrel dimensions will determine this.
The Henry rifle in 45 colt...I would not use it. I like a boolit with a flat meplate on the nose and a crimping groove that I can roll crimp into. With lever guns the primers sit on the boolit nose below it. A flat spot just sounds a whole lot safer than a round nose on that primer considering the magazine spring pressure plus the recoil when firing . I do not want a magazine full of rounds going off on the first shot.
I would get two moulds, The H&G #34 for 45 acp and a proper designed 45 Colt mould, reloading will be a whole lot simpler.
Gary
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Thanks for the post.
I have a good 200gr iron swc mold for 45acp already. It's heavy but a great mold. Think it's an old Lyman 452460. The flat point for colt bullets makes sense. It didn't even occur to me bout the points setting off the primers. I def want a 454 mold for
The safe side. Allows me to size down.
+1 on suitability for pistol & revolver but not for rifles with tubular magazines.
You might look at the Lee 230gr. Truncated Cone. It has a large meplat that won't act like a firing pin on a primer in front of it. It has a rounded shoulder, which is unlikely to cause feeding problems in either an automatic pistol or carbine. It has a ballistic coefficient somewhat inferior to that of a Lee 230-2R LRN, but better than the 200gr RNFP, and much better than the 200gr. LSWC. BCs usually don't mean much at defensive pistol ranges, but for hunting or long-range handgunning, it can make a diff.
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This is what I use in S&W and Ruger 45 revolvers and Rossi lever in 45 Colt. I use the plain base version but also have an older Lyman single holer with gas check I use for Ruger only loads.
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product...oducts_id=3511
EDIT: can't vouch for it in a Henry but it flows easily in my Rossi
How would this 230gr Keith mold do? $80 and a 5 cavort is pretty nice.
http://arsenalmolds.com/products?pro...it=99999999999
I've got this in a 6 cav H&G mold from before WW2. I LOVE IT...! I've used it since I started IPSC back in the early 1980s.
Be careful,
Victor
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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 |