Mountain Molds

[Ben]

A few days ago, Dwight Hardy placed a 2 cav. aluminum Mountain Mould, 175 gr. SWC up for sale. I bought the mold and it arrived today.

In the past few years, I've owned several Lyman molds, 358429, single and double cav molds. It seems that each had their own small problems that kept me from being totally happy with them. My last one cast and looks great, but the front drive band only mikes .355" The remainder of the bands mike .359"

This mold has the features that I've wanted. One feature is a full dia. front drive band. The front band isn't the " skinny" band that you see on some Keith style molds. This one is the full width that Elmer stressed as being so very impt. This MM also has the square bottom lube groove.

I'm sizing these to .3585". I think I'm going to be happy with this one.

Ben

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[357shooter]

Sweet! Great looking mould and great looking boolits too! So how do they shoot?

[Dframe]

Great looking bullets. Give us a range report on how they shoot for you.

[Beerd]

if you are not happy with it, I sure would be ;-)
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[Blammer]

I don't think you'll be happy till you HP one cavity on that mould. :)

[Ben]

Sweet! Great looking mould and great looking boolits too! So how do they shoot?

Don't know I've only had the mold a few hours.

Ben

[Ben]

I don't think you'll be happy till you HP one cavity on that mould. :)


You KNOW how to mash my buttons, don't you ?

[Blammer]

:-p:-p

ok the smiley's aren't working for some reason.

[ColColt]

It sort of reminds me of mine. Dan must be a busy feller these days.

http://www.castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=115455

[giz189]

I have 3 of Dans moulds, never had a complaint about either one. Good Quality there.

[white eagle]

Dan does excellent work
I still have a few of his molds

[MtGun44]

VERY nice. Slightly "unKeith" nose shape but you are dead right on the real
working parts of the design, Elmer would LOVE that lube groove - big, deep
and wide flat bottomed. Should be a real winner with hot loads. Three of
my four best .38 cal molds are slight variations on this theme, 358429, RCBS
38-150 K (now SWC) and 358477, with the LBT style Lee 358-158 RF as the
final member of my "first team" of .38 molds.

Very nice workmanship, too. I have not yet ordered a mold from Mountain Molds,
but have heard universally good reports on his workmanship.

I'll flabbergasted if it isn't a winner, but please do report back.

Bill

[Paulinski]

I have two of Dans moulds and they case excellent boolits.

[45r]

I was shooting my 215GC Mtn mold boolits out of my MG 35rem Marlin yesterday and they were going 1 to 2 inch at 100 yards.Being able to design a bore-rider that fit the rifle perfect helped with the good groups.I really like the rifle with it's 16 1/4 inch barrel.They shoot good with Re-7,3031, and real good with Vit-133(1 inch) and they are ACWW.I didn't think Micro-groove would shoot cast well but with a perfect fitting boolit they do.Another nice thing is no leading at all.The only molds I consider nowadays are BRP or Mtn mold.They are excellent.

[Ben]

VERY nice. Slightly "unKeith" nose shape but you are dead right on the real
working parts of the design, Elmer would LOVE that lube groove - big, deep
and wide flat bottomed. Should be a real winner with hot loads. Three of
my four best .38 cal molds are slight variations on this theme, 358429, RCBS
38-150 K (now SWC) and 358477, with the LBT style Lee 358-158 RF as the
final member of my "first team" of .38 molds.

Very nice workmanship, too. I have not yet ordered a mold from Mountain Molds,
but have heard universally good reports on his workmanship.

I'll flabbergasted if it isn't a winner, but please do report back.

Bill


Bill:

Thanks for those nice comments, I'll be shooting them in my Colt Officer's Model Match and my Marlin 1894 , 38 Spec., CBC. I also have a Dan Wesson 6" and a S & W Model 19 that they will get some use in.

Thanks,

Ben

[Ben]

I've loaded 50 rounds for my Colt Officer's Model Match.
This bullet makes a good looking round.
I hope that it shoots as well as it looks.
It really fills up the cylinder of my Colt. You can easily
see why this bullet protrudes from the cylinders in
a lot of 357 Mags. if one attempts to crimp in the crimp ring.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/MM%20%20358429%20Clone/0082.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/MM%20%20358429%20Clone/009.jpg

[MtGun44]

I missed a Colt Officers Match a few years back at a nice but not spectacular price, because
I was too ignorant to be sure it wasn't a homemade version (sights, mostly), or that
the price was good. Just had never seen one before, or really read about them, either.

I knew it looked nice, but was just not much aware of Colt revolvers beyond the SAA,
Python and Anaconda (which I owned then and now). Oh, well, maybe I'll find a nice one
again some day.

Good luck, I'll bet it does well.

By the way. What camera are you using? Great closeups!

Bill

[Ben]

Bill:

I have an old Minolta Dimage D-10.

It has taken a "bazillion photos ".

Like a Timex watch..........it takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

Thanks,

Ben

[gray wolf]

Funny how some folks can get things right
and some folks can't pee straight.