It’s heresy, I know! And I’m a new caster so I’m sure it’s my fault. But my Lee molds always drop a high rate of acceptable bullets, while my beautiful MP molds take me forever to get a handful of decent ones.
I just opened 2 new Lee molds (358-158 6 cav, 41-195 2 cav) and a new MP (359-220 4 cav). I sprayed them all with brake cleaner and went after it. Three hours later, I have a bunch of Lee bullets and a bunch of frustrations with the MP! Poor base fill, wrinkles, and very hard to release (esp the one cavity I put in the HP pin).
I tried the MP first, got frustrated, tried the Lee 41 and dropped great slugs. Cleaned the MP, tried again, got frustrated again, then threw a ton of 158s from the Lee. Then tried the MP again, and got frustrated again. I used it for probably 2 hours total and still culled maybe 70% the entire time.
I know that my issues each have individual solutions, but when used side by side, why is that MP so much trickier?
I also have a MP 460-420 HP, and had the same experiences with it, over several sessions. I thought that was due to the HP pins, but this 359-220 had 3 solid pins in and that didn’t fix things. Please help.
Thanks,
Pete