how many

[white eagle]

How many molds for a given caliber
do you stop at one :?:
I am getting quite a collection of molds :holysheep,[smilie=l:
when do you all stop :cbpour:

[MtGun44]

"How do you stop at one" . . . . . .


NO IDEA !!! :bigsmyl2:

Bill

[white eagle]

"How do you stop at one" . . . . . .


NO IDEA !!! :bigsmyl2:

Bill
I think the only way is running out of money
even then you can always trade
so I'm doomed :drinks:

[robertbank]

All it takes is one guy to say this mould works great in my (You name the gun you have in the safe).......

Take Care

Bob

[fredj338]

They are like potato chips, can't have just one. I have at least 2 for every caliber, some 4 & 5. It's a sickness.

[MtGun44]

Like a friend who collects Garands. I asked how many he has. He said, "Well, twenty
eight, but I can stop anytime." and grinned.

Laughed my head off.

Bill

[DragoonDrake]

I asked a question of how many molds do we own a while back. It was quite a spread. At the time I asked the question I had 25 molds. I now own I think 90 and I am in group buys for about 7 more. So there is never a stopping point. Profiles change, gas checks change, wts. change; doomed we all are.

Adam

[big dale]

I don't even know how to stop at several of one boolit style. i bought one of the first of the aluminium 6 cavity MiHec H&G503 oin the first buy and then just had to have one of the first of the Cramer H&G 503 to go with it. Now I can't wait for the 4 cavity brass 503 to arrive.

I've got it BAD!

Have fun with this stuff.

Big Dale

[Hickory]

You all are a bunch of Sickos
You need some physiological help.:holysheep
Where's Wayne Smith when you need him. :groner:

I don't know what you'd call the sick fetish you have, but you need help!

I think I have it too.

[FISH4BUGS]

I never really gave it any thought. Now that I think about it, I realized I use 9 moulds for 38/357, 7 for 44. 5 for 45 auto, 5 for 9mm, 1 for 380, 5 for 30 cal, and a bunch I don't even have guns for. I'll cast 1000 and shoot them up, then pick another mould and cast another 1000. I try to rotate the moulds but sometimes it is a year or so before I get back to the mould.
Collecting and using. Two different things. I have a bunch of H&G moulds that I have purchased over the years. One is a almost new 30 carbine 110 gr rn gc 4 cavity. I don't even own a 30 carbine anything....there are a number of moulds that I don't own guns for .
How sick is that?

[white eagle]

well......after hearing from you all
I do feel better [smilie=w:

[Kirk Miller]

I'm a user, not a collector. (yea right). I'll just keep repeating that and I just may convince myself.

[DukeInFlorida]

My buddies jokingly call it, "Lead Poisoning".....

Symptoms:

1) Uncontrollable urge to keep finding lead. Thousands of pounds doesn't satisfy the urges.

2) Uncontrollable urge to cast bullets at all hours of the day and night. Can never have enough finished bullets.

3) Uncontrollable urge to buy more molds. 5, 6 or even 7 molds for each caliber isn't enough.

4) Uncontrollable urge to buy more guns. Associated with symptom #3, above. Sometimes finding that you purchased a mold for a caliber that you don't have causes the gun purchase to happen.

CURE: There is not known cure.

[btroj]

I have 5 or 5 for 45-70. I have decided I don't need more, what I have works well for anything I will ever want it to do. This will last until I see another mould I cant live without.

[stubshaft]

I have stopped buying molds for just 2 of my guns/calibers. The first is my FA83 in 454 I shoot a 300gr LFN. The second one is the 45/70. I use the RCBS 405 or the RD they both shoot exceptionally well in any of my three 1895's.

I have over 118 molds now and am STILL on the list for a couple of GB's.

[EDK]

How many molds for a given caliber
do you stop at one :?:
I am getting quite a collection of molds :holysheep,[smilie=l:
when do you all stop :cbpour:

When you have everything available...and they quite designing new ones!

:cbpour::Fire::redneck:

[Blammer]

I wish I could have stopped about 8 moulds ago for this caliber...

(the pic is out of date, I have 3-4 more 44's that are not in it.)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/44list-1.jpg

[frankenfab]

Hi, I'm Frank, and I'm a Moldaholic. I guess I Should maybe try to find some other folks like myself and have some MAN (Moldaholics ANonymous) meetings...Oh wait, that's here!:bigsmyl2:

[stubshaft]

Hi, I'm Frank, and I'm a Moldaholic. I guess I Should maybe try to find some other folks like myself and have some MAN (Moldaholics ANonymous) meetings...Oh wait, that's here!:bigsmyl2:

Frank,
This isn't moldaholics anonymous this is where the Pushers are!:bigsmyl2:

[DragoonDrake]

You mean I have been on the wrong site all along. No wonder I can't stop buying molds.

[MtGun44]

But I can stop any time.

:bigsmyl2:


Bill

[blackthorn]

Well---if a mould is priced right---and if it is one I don't own a gun for---(yet)---maybe it will work to make slugs for barrel measurement for something I do have---'till I find a gun that fits!!!

[RobS]

It seems like $$$ issues always places a crutch on my mold collection. I have currently 2 molds at most for a given caliber/gun. However I've purchased and used 15+ different molds for the 45 cal revolver class and have narrowed it down to two designs which I created and had custom done. I like to simplify things so having one or two for each cal/gun isn't a big deal on my end. I'm always looking at fitting the right boolit to my guns as accuracy is my goal and when I find "the design, the mold" I seem to be pretty content............well until I have another idea of what might be better. :bigsmyl2:

[Von Dingo]

I've explained this many ways, will a tack hammer handle all your hammering needs? Or a tack hammer and a 20 pound sledge hammer?

How about wrenches? you need long, short, open end, box end, six and twelve point. Sockets, shallow, deep well, six point, twelve point, 1/4-3/8- and half inch drive for general use.

[HeavyMetal]

Yes you can aquirre quite a supply of molds particularly if you hang out here!

I have found that I go through my mold collection every couple years and thin it out a bit.

What happens is: a mold comes along. like many of our GB's, that is a one off and you know it may never come around again so you buy it!

Examples are the OMB 44 full wadcutter and the Mihec 38 cal HBWC. I own one of each which means molds like my 429348 I no longer need same as the 358395 HB SC mold I have.

Niether of these is in use any more ( the 429348 went down the road last year) and will get sold or traded off for other needs. I also have an RCBS 300 Grain DC 45-70 mold it used to do a lot of my 45-70 casting but I found a 457122HP here and I find both 45-70's prefer it because it is .460 and plain base and shoots real well in my Contender super 14 barrel.

Right now I am finishing up a rebuild of a Lyman 358439, this is the 358429 Kieth boolit set up by Lyman as an HP. It was a loose and sloppy when it was given to me and now is tight and ready to cast ( seeing today what the actual diameter is as cast) but here I am again: when finished I don't need it because I had a 358429 converted to HP by Buckshot a couple years ago.

It to will be on the block soon.

So check your molds and sort out what you don't want and get the flow going!

With a little luck you can help a newbie out and make enough money to pay for the GB addiction!

It doesn't cure it but it does make it feasible.....for awhile...LOL!!

[Wayne Smith]

You all are a bunch of Sickos
You need some physiological help.:holysheep
Where's Wayne Smith when you need him. :groner:

I don't know what you'd call the sick fetish you have, but you need help!

I think I have it too.

I'm Here! I'll work for molds!!

[Moonie]

Um, to all of those that have stopped with any number, QUITTERS!!!:kidding:

[warf73]

I only have a few molds and would never honcho a group buy as that would make me a pusher. I don’t have too many molds as my garage has a shelf for molds that has been expanded 4 times and there is room for more. I have never bought another mold of the same design because I forgot I had it already.
I don’t have to be a quitter because I don’t have problem.
Only addicts quite and I’m not addicted so I’m not an addict.

[white eagle]

warf
sounds like you are in denial for sure
see my doctor @ Accurate Molds he has cured me
I just got another one ;)

[Tom R]

I am new to this game and I am going through a divorce so I am struggling to afford one of each. I have a 9mm mold that had to get sent back to lee right now "which they have misplaced"So I bought a brass 58 cal mini ball mold just to see how the hollow base pin worked. I don't own a 58 and I never will. But it was affordable and it let me play with my new hobby. So I don't think I can join your club yet but I would love to some day. Right now I am just trying to save up to get a 38sp of 357 mold hopefully in a Keith style.

[warf73]

warf
sounds like you are in denial for sure
see my doctor @ Accurate Molds he has cured me
I just got another one ;)

lol I'll tell him white eagle sent me.

[Sully]

I'm Here! I'll work for molds!!

LOL...LOL..."Will work for Molds"....LMAO ROTF..

[Sully]

:veryconfu......I really cant see how a guy can get by with less than 3 molds for each caliber..?? A lighter bullet for the velocity; a heavy bullet;.. and a slug in the middle ranger for general plinking.:cbpour:

[1Shirt]

It is most definatelly an addiction! I am addicted!
1Shirt!:coffee:

[chboats]

This forum is DANGEROUS! I have been trying to tell people for a long time. It is full of "Ineeds" and "gottohaves" I have been able to resist. I am not addicted. 22 thirty cal molds is not too many, is it. It's not is it? Please tell me it's not.

Carl

[DragoonDrake]

Carl I am sorry to tell you, but sir you have a problem. Now I can help you with all those spare molds.

[chboats]

That's what I love about this place someone is always will to help out a fellow castor.

Carl

[MT Gianni]

It depends on caliber. I first bought a 454424 mold for my 45 Blackhawk. [AIRC, I now have two of them] I have had 5 other profiles but finally decided that this is all I will ever need in this gun. I have owned over 25 35 cal molds and would guess I have over 15 now.

[captaint]

My thing lately has been 45ACP molds. I pretty much can't have enough. Keep telling myself to stay out of the "active group buys" area. It's not working out. enjoy Mike