2 because I'm just starting out.
-.308
-.45
1-10
11-20
21-30
30+
2 because I'm just starting out.
-.308
-.45
I keep an excel spreadsheet with mold info and notes. I update it about once a month with new acquisitions and dispositions.
Right now I have 48, but I've sold 31 in the last 6 weeks. I plan to sell some more and continue to focus on getting "what I want" instead of just what's available.
I fully expect to settle happily with something around 150 molds, and then just add to that number as I see something I've wanted but couldn't find, or I develop a new "need" with the arrival of a new project. I also expect it to take several years to acquire everything I'm looking for now.
For example, I currently have 10 .32 caliber molds, without counting duplicates, and I can think of at least 3 more that I "need" (Of course, the .32 is an affliction unto itself)
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Collecting .32 molds. Please let me know if you have one you don't need, cause I might "need" it!
Haven't counted in 20-30 years, occasionally get more, added 7 this week. Have eyes on Lee 6-cav .358 tumble lube wc. My old wc is a 1-cav Lyman. I worked overtime jobs away from home for years and often sent things home when I was far away.
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Like so many others, I started with just one--I got a Lyman for the specific purpose of putting my .32 Win Spl back in the game on the cheap. Next thing I know somebody sprinkled my mold and little box of WW's with rabbit dust. Now my lead supply is up somewhere over a ton in various states of ingots to raw/unsmelted and I really can't count all my molds off the top of my head without going out to the shop and looking. How did that happen??? Oh yah, I remember--I started hanging around all of you on a regular basis...
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It's sort of an addiction, like booze or drugs, or maybe sex. But won't hurt you like booze or drugs.
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Just getting my start in casting here. Two molds to my name. I see them accumulating over time....
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Added five more molds to the collection from Midway yesterday. Now just need to clean them and fire up the melting pots.
My mould count changes. I recently sold off a bunch of 2 cavity moulds, but replaced them with 4,6, and an 8 cavity mould! Now casting with a single or dual cavity mould just seems like so much work, compared to the multi cavity moulds that make a bunch of boolits real quick! Of course the other side to that coin is that I now have enough of the boolits from that 8 cavity mould that I probably won't need to use it again for a year or more! Or I can just go ahead, and start shooting a whole lot more than I do now!
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Want to checkout my feedback? It's here:
http://www.castboolits.gunloads.com/...d.php?t=136410
This many, about 150 or so, making this bullet board has been a great help to remember what molds I have.
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Somewhere around 100. Need a fresh inventory, tho!
For any of you that are contemplating thinning down your collection, these are on my "hit list" to buy. All are Lyman/Ideal. Dont be sahful if you have one or more. Shoot me a PM and name your price. Lets do some biz.....
225036 40 46 54 60 69gr
225209
225487
228035
244503
257021
257306
263314
294380
299152
299153
299155
311001
311002
311010
311023
311206
311224
311240
311259
311274
311281
311282
311288
311331
311333
311351
311397
311419 HP
313055
313056
313057
313260
313307
313493
319049
321115 125
321265
321298
323061
323236
328371
338337
350293
354433
358070
358071
358073
358097
358160
358238
358313
358339
358363
358385
358394
375078
375080
375164
375272
375355
386176
403092
403095
403171
403172
410214 101, 141, 181
412174
412328
412338
415175
415179
419180
419182
423173
427099
427100
429104
429105
429184
429422
436218
446109
446187 330 400
454067
454148
454485
457107
457126
457127
457131
457132 417 475
457235
457474
465451
470216 230 285 342 368
533044
538146 524
575387
Thanks for your consideration !!
I have...... 3
I only reload for two calibers, currently.
I gave away most of my firearms to the kids.
700 molds??? That is sick!
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I honestly don't know how many I have in total, because I only pay attention to the few I am using at any given time. I do know that I started buying up all the different moulds I could find for the .32 cal rifle bullets I use in my .32-40 and ended up with with about 10 for it. Kinda like size, I guess, it's not the number you have but what you do with the ones you have!
Froggie
These are the molds I know I have, I just do not have the correct Mfr's ID number for them, so I'll give you their caliber, weight, and nose profile.
1ea - Lee .309 - 200 - RNGC
1ea - Lyman .311 - 200 - RNGC
1ea - Lyman .45 - 500 - RN
1ea - Lyman .45 - 300 - RFN
1ea - RCBS .45 - 350 - RFN
1ea - Rapine .45 - 405 - RNHB
1ea - Lee .45 - 405 - RNFP
1ea - NEI .45 -385 - RNGC
1ea - Lyman .50 - 350 - RNFP
2ea - Lee .452-255-RFN
1ea - Lyman - .45 - 250 - RNFP
1ea - RCBS .45 - 250 - RN
1ea - NEI .45 - 230 - TC
1 ea - PCM .45 - 185 - WC
1ea - Lyman .454 - 250 - KSWC
1ea - Lyman .452 - 230 - GC SWC
1ea - Lyman .429 - 240 - RNFP
1ea - RCBS .429 - 205 - RNFP
1ea - Lee .40 - 175 - TC/TL
I have over 30 moulds.
And there are 2 on order from NOE.
Well 1 paid for, the other the check is in the snail mail.
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55gr .22 Lyman
130gr 7mm Lee
150gr 7mm NEI
90gr .301 LBT
165gr 311 LBT
170gr 311 Lyman
209gr .322 Jones
400gr .410Saeco
320gr .412 LBT
400gr .412 LBT
I've had a lot of fun with all of them.
I have to wonder how many of us have answered this poll and would now be in a different category. I know I would. I also now know that I was too limiting on this poll.
I'm up to 6 molds now, started casting a couple of years ago. Guess that's Ok for a beginner.
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 |