I use both the Lyman PH copy and the Lee .575"
I use both the Lyman PH copy and the Lee .575"
Hold Still Varmint; while I plugs Yer!
I have that Lee mold. It casts the bullet on the left. It’s the ONLY Lee bullet that works in any of my guns that take a 575-6 bullet. If anybody wants that mold, good luck. Lee discontinued them. I go two off eBay.
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Palmetto Sharpshooters
North South Skirmish Association
NRA Muzzleloading Instructor
2 MOA implies 2 inches at 100 yards or 1 inch at 50 yards. I believe he is talking about 50 yards a one hole group
A couple of tricks that some may find useful.
1. When trying to determine the bullet diameter for your minie ball gun a few cast minies can be machined down using the rifling to do the machining. Grip the nose of the minie with your favorite set of big pliers or channel locks and feed the bullet into the bore tail first while twisting it and doing your best to keep it straight. Try that a few times until you think you're getting pretty good at it, make up your sampling set and then write down multiple diameter measurements off of each one. The resulting data should give you a definition of the diameter that will pass into the bore of your rifling.
2. The older various designs of Lyman minie molds used base pins of fairly large diameter and could be swapped out from one set of blocks to the other. Four different bullets could therefore be cast using the components of two molds. Nine different bullet designs could be cast using three molds. So if you bought old molds on the cheap you were way ahead.
3. OK, I'll go for a third. Because the molds had base plug channels of diameters very close to one another it's also possible to have an interchangeable adjustable length base plug. And in those 48" twist guns (pretty quick twist for that big a bore!) that opens up just a whole bunch of fun.
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 |