380 MOLD - what’s your choice?

[Thin Man]

I have 2 dedicated .380 molds - the Lee .356-95 RF and the Lee .356-102 RN. Both of these work well enough but I can occasionally find that one odd project pistol that demands a different COL from all the others when using these molds. Then comes the Lee .358-105 SWC pattern. This is the mold I first used in my .380 handloading and found it to be completely reliable for feeding up with every pistol I have used it in. I load this boolit with just a thumb nail thickness of the forward shoulder out of the case and charge the rounds with appropriate powder levels for the weight of the boolit. Against all the odds, I size these at .358 and am still waiting to have a tie-up with the cartridge loading into any pistol. Lee offers this mold (as well as the others I mentioned) in the 6 cavity blocks. I suspect with the proper COL any of these mold patterns will work for you. As for me, I'll stay with the .358-105 SWC.

[Boolseye]

I use the Lee stable of .380
Boolits (all have been mentioned in the previous post), and find them all to work very well. I have had no need for others.


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[FISH4BUGS]

Mine? A 10 cavity Hensley & Gibbs S55. It puts out a TON of bullets. It has to. I shoot them in a MAC M11A1 380 sub machinegun with a ROF in excess of 1200 rpm..

[Land Owner]

If you can find one, a Ranch Dog TL358-100-RF mould, and very sim. to NOE TL358-100-RF-BE2

[Boolseye]

Mine? A 10 cavity Hensley & Gibbs S55. It puts out a TON of bullets. It has to. I shoot them in a MAC M11A1 380 sub machinegun with a ROF in excess of 1200 rpm..

This is what I’ll mention the next time I hear someone say, “can you shoot cast in that?”
I hope you have a progressive press.

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[jmort]

If you can find one, a Ranch Dog TL358-100-RF mould, and very sim. to NOE TL358-100-RF-BE2

You can, right now. Order it from Accurate. That is what I did.

[jmort]

If you can find one, a Ranch Dog TL358-100-RF mould, and very sim. to NOE TL358-100-RF-BE2

You can, right now. Order it from Accurate. That is what I did. It will be around 100 grains. 35-098R

[Boolseye]

If you can find one, a Ranch Dog TL358-100-RF mould, and very sim. to NOE TL358-100-RF-BE2

The Lee tl356-95rf is basically the same boolit, and works wonderfully.


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[Land Owner]

These 380 cal. Ranch Dog boolits drop about 104 grains, (say) 10 BHN air cooled from my alloy and 6-cav. mold, shoot to point of aim at 10 yards from a pair of Walther PPK, and "vaporize" with a satisfying "ping" when propelled into hardened plow disks.

[Boolseye]

Funny, my Taurus TCP shoots about 10” below POA no matter what you put through it. As long as you know that, you’re fine. Great little gun.


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[dryflash3]

I'm using a 6 gang Lee 356 95 gr RF.

Powder coated with Smoke4320's "Bacon grease" (color).