Found myself in the neighborhood of NOE Bullet Molds. Can't pass up an opportunity like that, so....
This will be used for 9mm Luger. Would love to hear what you guys that have used this mold for 9mm have to say about it. Specifically, it'll be used in a S&W M&P CORE 9L and a CZ 75 SP-01.
Stopped by Dad's house as well. He had an early Christmas gift for me:
Even the original instructions are included. I took a picture of them, but didn't want to upload a picture of the instructions because of possible copyright problems, although since the instructions are circa 1957, I'm not sure that would be a problem. Dad has had this sweet old Ideal lubrisizer packed away in it's original box for the past two decades.
This will be my first lubrisizer... I'm still pretty new at the casting thing, and have just been tumble lubing til now.
I'd like to eventually switch over to ESPC lubing, but in the mean time, I bought that specific NOE mold because of it's lube groove. NOE also sells a non lube groove TC mold that I'm hoping to get once I get the whole ESPC thing down.
So you guys that use this particular NOE mold, what do you think? I'm hoping it'll be a big improvement over the Lee six cavity TL356-124-2R I've been using.
I have to drive back by Provo Utah today (passing right by NOE Bullet Molds), but luckily they're closed on Saturdays.
Edit: Would also like lube suggestions for that mold. I'll be driving that boolit at around 1k fps through the guns listed above. Temps will be between 45F in the winter to 115F in the summer. I'd like a lube that will handle that big of a temperature range, but if that's not possible, something that will handle 45-75 degrees would be great, as that's the conditions we'll be shooting in for the next few months.