Here is a consolidated report on the NOE mould I bought.
It's an RG2. I put the HP pins in it, cleaned it with some degreaser and scrubbed it lightly with a toothbrush then washed it off with hot water. (per degreaser instructions)
Heated up the pot and the mould and commenced to casting with it.
I found that if I have the mould open, then turn it so the spue plate is on the top then close it, then close the sprue plate I get great boolits that drop out easily when it's opened.
I closed the mould with the sprue on the bottom and the pins 'hung' down just a wee bit more and that little bit more made it difficult for the boolits to drop off of the pins.
After figuring this out, I proceeded to cast up 450 GOOD boolits! It rocked!
I cast a few first then picked them up with a pliers and dropped them into a bottle of water to cool them off. I then took the bottle and boolits outside, dumped them out and had some cool boolits I could measure. They both measured (one from each cavity) .453 by MAYBE .4535 if that. They were very good! Weighted 185gr using my WW alloy.
Here is all 450 of them.
I loaded up about 5 with some WW231.
I shot 3 for function, worked beautifully, they fed like they had eyes.
Now the fun part!
I set up 3, 1 gallon milk jugs of water about 10 feet away and shot a boolit into them. (yea got a bit wet.)
My kimber is an Ultra Carry with the 3" brl.
Recovered the below boolit in the second milk jug. First was split open pretty good and the second one had a big dent in the back.
Naw, I'm not interested in making my boolits mushroom nicely. They work fine for me.
Did I mention that the HP is bigger than the Speer flying ashtray?
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