WC mold for 38 spl

[Jal5]

Is there any real difference in performance between the Lee WC molds for TL versus standard lube the one with the cap looking top? Want it for use in the snubnose Taurus. I would think they are interchangeable for target shooting plinking.
Joe

[tazman]

I have used both and if anything, the TL version may shoot slightly better. This is for me in my guns. Your mileage can vary.

[brewer12345]

I have thus far shot commercial Hornady HBWCs, Berry's plated DEWCs, and my cast from a discontinued Lyman mold. All required slightly different powder charges, but they all seem to shoot better than I can. For a lark, I even shot a plated one out of my rifle and ****ed if it did not hit the target very close to what I am sighted into for RNFP and no signs of keyholing at 50 yards.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

getting one the correct size is lots more important than design.

[Jal5]

That’s what I thought. Size is #1.
Just bought a 6 cav TL WC and will compare it to the std lube groove one as far as accuracy.

[JBinMN]

I have not seen any difference with the Lee TL 148gr. WCs compared to the others(148gr.) I have used. At 25yds or less anyway.

All I have left is about 140+ or so of the one on the bottom. Just about done using them up.( I forget the type/maker they are. They were bought years ago & cast by someone else.). Then I am just going to be using the Lee ones. Unless some day I buy a lubrisizer, since all I do right now is tumble, or pan lube the boolits I cast to shoot.


G'Luck!

[USSR]

Here's the wadcutter I cast.

Don

[curator]

I make and use several thousand .38 wad cutter boolits each year. My preference is the Lee double end tumble-lube boolit cast from my Lee 6-cavity moulds. I cast them from 1/2 COWW and pure lead, then air cool and age 2 weeks. They test to BHN 8-9. I run them through the Lee push-through .358 sizing die and lube them with 45/45/10 tumble lube. I load them "sprue-up" and seat them out about .010" with a light crimp over 3 grains of BullsEye in assorted headstamp .38 special brass. Accuracy in just about any .38 Special/.357 Magnum revolver is outstanding.

[JBinMN]

I make and use several thousand .38 wad cutter boolits each year. My preference is the Lee double end tumble-lube boolit cast from my Lee 6-cavity moulds. I cast them from 1/2 COWW and pure lead, then air cool and age 2 weeks. They test to BHN 8-9. I run them through the Lee push-through .358 sizing die and lube them with 45/45/10 tumble lube. I load them "sprue-up" and seat them out about .010" with a light crimp over 3 grains of BullsEye in assorted headstamp .38 special brass. Accuracy in just about any .38 Special/.357 Magnum revolver is outstanding.

Pretty cool!

You just about described what I do also. Some difference are that I use a couple of other powders as well as BE & I don't worry about the sprue end, and sometimes I go more than 2 weeks from cast to shoot, but otherwise it is basically the same process & I am just as pleased as you seem to be with accuracy out to 25yds..

[OS OK]

These are the button tops from the Lyman mould I run in the Green Machine...accuracy is spot on in any .38/.357 you use them in.
2.7 grains of BullsEye.

Attachment 208946

[Jal5]

Thx guys. Looking forward to making up a bunch of these.

[Grmps]

I have used both the TL and regular Lee and several other regular 38/357 wadcutter molds.

The cast iron molds may look better but the Lee 6 bangers are so much faster and soot the same.

I cast for friends and trading, I've probably done more than 10,000 of these this year