I had four culls...

[Tom W.]

I had four culls , mostly cosmetic, from the batch of Lee 358- 158 RF that I cast for my son yesterday, so I decided to try two to see if they'd pass the plunk test in my Ruger LC9s Pro. I flared four pieces of brass and without adjusting anything on my dies loaded two cartridges, sans powder or primer. They plunked just fine and I loaded them into my Magazine and cycled them. No sticking, no wedging the slide open, they just did like my current load. The boolits were sized to .358. I know from horrible past experiences that .358 won't feed in my CZ, but .357 will. I didn't feel up to changing the sizing die out and resizing the other two boolits, so that will be for another time. I suspect that they will work though. but I'm not going to shoot the 158 grain boolits from my 9mm's. I'll save up some funds and get the Lee 358-125 RF.

[John McCorkle]

I have been itching to try that bullet in 9mm...

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[Tom W.]

Which one ? The light one or the heavy one?

[John McCorkle]

Which one ? The light one or the heavy one?

Heavy...I've used the 125 for a while...really like the wide metplat...cuts a nice hole in paper plates

Those 158s are like them but bigger...out of a 9mm rifle length carbine I bet they'd carry some momentum

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[lightman]

4 culls is not bad. Most of my buddies tell me that I'm too picky. I saved a ZipLoc bag of my selected culls with the intention of shooting them but I have not done it yet. I guess some of this depends on what type of shooting you are doing. If you're shooting at a man size silhouette target at 7 yards your requirements are different than a Bullseye shooter or a hunter. I'm just vain enough that I don't want anyone to see one of my loads that has a rounded edge on the driving band or a wrinkle on the nose! I know I can do better and I want everyone else to know it too.

[Wayne Smith]

It's too easy to just drop them back into the pot!

[Tom W.]

When I get enough ingots into the pot I'll plug it in and set the mold on the top of the pot. I don't have a hot plate, and ain't going to bother with one now. Even the 6 cavity Lee molds get good and hot while I'm waiting for the alloy to melt, plus I'll stick the corner of the mold into the cleaned and fluxed melt just to be sure that no alloy will stick to the mold. Once with my single cavity mold I got a bit exuberant and held it in a bit longer than needed. It took a while for the first boolit to solidify!