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    I cast about 40# from an 8 Cavity H & G S242 mold. I got a bit of a late start and only cast for about 2 hours.

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    Close to 100 round balls for the wife's 32 caliber muzzleloader (pure Lead) and a batch of 358-125 RF for the 9mm. These are 94/3/3, Lead/Antimony/Tin. Half were water quenched from the mold and half air cooled. We'll see which work better.
    God Bless, Whisler

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    Holie Cow Moonie...those thangs are bigger than a banana!
    a m e r i c a n p r a v d a

    Be a Patriot . . . expose their lies!

    “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” G. Orwell

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    Quote Originally Posted by OS OK View Post
    Holie Cow Moonie...those thangs are bigger than a banana!
    right? The interesting thing is the cavity in one of them is bigger than the 9mm bullet in the picture (147gr bullet, 160gr cavity).

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    Just these, I am learning the new mold.

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  7. #127
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    20 lb of 457193 and 20 lb of lee 312-155 coww. Water dropped the lee.

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    Cast some Lee 358-166 SWC-TL bullets to see if the mold needs work. It does!! It was the first non-round ball mold I ever used and it cast some funky boolits. I have learned a lot since then and wanted to see if the problem was me or the mold. It was actually a little of both but mostly user error. One cavity definitely needs leementing which I will do in a few days.
    God Bless, Whisler

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    I cast a few 75 cal slugs like this in weights varying from 750 to about 1200 to run in a 2018 model PWD #4. Homemade 4 cavity Douglas Fir mould. Bottom pour cast from the Pro Melt.







    Ok, so the PWD is a Pinewood Derby car.

    The car had a female counterpart such that the weights could be swapped in and out. The various weights were cast in case their scale did not agree with ours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue32 View Post
    Accurate 36-180F for my 686.

    Attachment 211918

    Barely works at 1.610"

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    Jeeeeezzz!! Those boolits look angry. I bet they smack 'em.

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    Ended up with a near new lyman 311644 mold, 190gr sill. Neat looking boolit with lube grooves on the body of the nose. With WW they dropped .309, jeez....... anyhow wasn't the first time for Lyman mould so I PCed a few and shot a few just to see. Not bad results for slapped together rounds out of a frankin rifle I cobbled together. Gonna lap it out to get it to drop at least a .311 boolit.
    Be well
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    when you ignore the fine print you get experience

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grmps View Post
    Cruise missiles!
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    Be a Patriot . . . expose their lies!

    “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” G. Orwell

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    Quote Originally Posted by leebuilder View Post
    Ended up with a near new lyman 311644 mold, 190gr sill. Neat looking boolit with lube grooves on the body of the nose. With WW they dropped .309, jeez....... anyhow wasn't the first time for Lyman mould so I PCed a few and shot a few just to see. Not bad results for slapped together rounds out of a frankin rifle I cobbled together. Gonna lap it out to get it to drop at least a .311 boolit.
    Be well
    I don't know about you guys, but I am so tired of Lyman just never getting the drop weight where it should be. I use to be a big lyman fan and user years ago but had such bad moulds as far a actual drop weight I've almost gone completely to either RCBS or Lee.

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    I can't get the pics to load, but cast about 400 Lee 358-158RF, about 300 Lee 309-113RF and about 300 RCBS 32-98s

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    I finally got around to loading the pictures from last weekend. This was from a new to me H&G 4 cavity #68 mold.

    Last edited by lightman; 03-11-2018 at 01:08 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lightman View Post
    I finally got around to loading the pictures from last weekend. This was from a new to me H&G 4 cavity #68 mold.

    Perdy stack of boolits there. Nice looking! I bet they shoot well too.

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    For me it was a batch of Lee .356 95 gr. RF ranch dog 380 boolits.

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    Today was little boolit day, 160 - NOE 172-26 gc, 150 - NOE 172-32 and 155- NOE 225-55 FPGC.
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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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