dk17hmr
11-06-2006, 03:25 AM
Ideal did this with a 452 mold, only have seen one and it was on ebay went for $75 or something. Its a 2 alloy bullet mold, I can draw somethign up in CADD class tomorrow if there is any intrest.
Its kinda hard to explain basically cast the nose of the bullet with a soft lead with a rebated end. Once that is cast it fits in the full bullet mold and you cast hard alloy around it so you have the stank/drive bands hard with a pure lead tip.
I had in mind a .458 bullet somewhere around 400-450grs, with a big flat point around .390-.400", with the tumble lube grooves, and a gas check, very much like the last RanchDog mold.
Purpose of the bullet is for hunting, but with what I have in mind you could just cast normal bullets with the full cavity for practice and then the 2 alloy for hunting. I dont know if Lee would do it the 1/2 cavity and the full cavity in same block but that would be great, maybe a 6 cavity with 2 nose cavity and 4 full cavity.
Its kinda hard to explain basically cast the nose of the bullet with a soft lead with a rebated end. Once that is cast it fits in the full bullet mold and you cast hard alloy around it so you have the stank/drive bands hard with a pure lead tip.
I had in mind a .458 bullet somewhere around 400-450grs, with a big flat point around .390-.400", with the tumble lube grooves, and a gas check, very much like the last RanchDog mold.
Purpose of the bullet is for hunting, but with what I have in mind you could just cast normal bullets with the full cavity for practice and then the 2 alloy for hunting. I dont know if Lee would do it the 1/2 cavity and the full cavity in same block but that would be great, maybe a 6 cavity with 2 nose cavity and 4 full cavity.