I just received my new Nose Pour Hoch Moulds in .577, 700 grain. The are very well made and designed: excellent machining, three guide pins instead of two, handles are a bit larger diameter which is very nice and the jaws are heavy cast instead of bent flat bar.
The bullet design is exactly what I wanted. It not just a modification of a similar configuration. The meplat and ogive is ideal, imo, for close range on buffalo. Meplat is .448, or 76% of bullet diameter.
Before calling Dave at Hoch Moulds I was trying to get Tom at Accurate Moulds to make me this mould, but he wanted me to get his 660B mould instead. I have two moulds from Tom already and am very happy with them, but his 660B was not what I wanted.
I am sure glad that I gave Hoch a whirl at suppying this mould. It's perfect. Brian