OK, I tried to buy my way into some 7.62x25 bullets no luck so I need to buy one and get my butt to work. So I need to get a mold and its probable going to be a Lee mold for the cost ( yep I am cheap right now) It will be my first real try at molding my own since I was in my teens. Give me a mold number that you use for the caliber so I will not buy the wrong one. I know what I am doing its just been many years since I have done it. A single cavity mold will do.
Many thanks in advance.
I don't have a Lee catalog in front of me, but I'd think a 100-125gr gc boolit .30cal would do the trick. Do you want a TL design or a traditional design?
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AS always... slug the bore first...If this is a Broomhandle get a reading at both ends. I have seen several pre-WW1 with LARGE chamber areas .310 - .314 that taper down to .309 - .311 at the muzzle. Broomhandles do shoot great with cast boolits of the proper diameter and hardness... BUT you must have that chamber diameter filled.
Check your groove dimeter first. Mine (CZ52) is .314, and there are almost no molds in that diameter. I have a .311576 That I've lapped and beagled out to .316 for mine. Easiest answer might be a Lee custom, or Mountain mold.
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OK, I sluged the bores and I have .311 for the first cz-52 and .309 for the second cz-52 now which mold should I get ?
Lee makes 2 rn and 1 swc molds for the 32/20 - 32 s&w that are 93 or 100 gr. that might work. For a gas check mold they make a .30 cal. 120 gr rn, probably drops boolits at about .311, so that could work.
Have not seen a Lee mold suitable, not to say they don't have one, but the RCBS 32-98-FP for the .32 S&W Long works great for the Tokarev cartridge. I posted a load for this in the shared loads.
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