whats the deal here?

[adrians]

hi , i picked this ideal mold up not to long ago and ,well there isn't a block and no screws, its all one cast jobby.
whats the deal ? is it old,?, heck i don't know.
if it drops what it is supposed too i should have a decent boolit for my kar88 and gew88( both slug at @.319.5) ,i quess its a 32-40 cal mold # 319295 and i was told it gives up 173grn boolits g/c so with lube i could stretch it to @180 grn or so .
but again why one solid cast, no block.? oh yer and no vent lines,:twisted::confused::evil:

[deltaenterprizes]

Looks like a collector's item!

[MT Gianni]

The real early Ideal molds were like that. AIRC, they changed over to replaceable handles in the 1920's. [Don't recall that, just what I have heard].

[45nut]

I have a similar one made by winchester and another by ideal too,, of course,, both are 45!

[adrians]

i found this in an older lyman book it's under the heading "unusual bullet designs".
hope this works.

[bhn22]

I've had several of these moulds. They are old, but there's really no collector interest unless it's cut to a rare design. Depending on caliber, I've seen them starting at around $25.00 & up, once again, depending on the bullet design. Yours appears to be from around the 1930s or so. I think they stopped making the moulds in one piece in the late '30s, but don't remember exactly.

[beagle]

Just an early Ideal. They were made like that back then as I guess casters only had one or two guns unlike today when we may be loading for many different calibers and detachable blocks make sense.

I have a couple and they make pretty good bullets./beagle

[adrians]

well i cast a couple of the 319295"s and they aint too bad they dropped at 321.
i used soft lead so now i got something to slug my kar88 and my gew88 with.
the rest will go down the barrel the other way and alot faster.:twisted::mrgreen::twisted: