Stackable part mold?

[AbitNutz]

I saw a mold a while back that cast three or 4 pieces that you stacked one on top of another when loading.

Say a 250 grain .45 with each piece about 62 grains.


Anyone remember anything like that?

[deltaenterprizes]

I remember an article about taking four 77gr wadcutters and stacking them in a 357 Max case.
I cut down a wadcutter mold to make 55 gr boolits and loaded 2 of them and a 90 gr 380 RN on top.
A deceased friend sold ammo called "Multiple Munitions" using the same concept.

[mooman76]

I remember talk about a group buy for something like that in 38 and maybe 45 too but I don't know if it ever happened.

[gray wolf]

We used to call them duplex loads.

[cbrick]

We used to call them duplex loads.

Hhmmm . . . The only loads I've ever heard called "duplex" or "triplex" loads were those using two and three different powders. Very dangerous thing to do but it is what Dick Casull did to develop the 454 (triplex load) before FA started making the revolver.

Glen discusses stacked bullets like this in his book. Chapter 9, page 85.

http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_textonly2.pdf

Rick

[Glen]

This is the H&G #333 stackable wadcutter.

[Blammer]

yep that mould was ran

[Le Loup Solitaire]

Dean Grennell did an extensive article on this type of loading in one of his editions of Handloading. He used the H&G 333. It was his design custom ordered by him direct from H&G. LLS

[Tom W.]

Hhmmm . . . The only loads I've ever heard called "duplex" or "triplex" loads were those using two and three different powders. Very dangerous thing to do but it is what Dick Casull did to develop the 454 (triplex load) before FA started making the revolver.

Glen discusses stacked bullets like this in his book. Chapter 9, page 85.

http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_textonly2.pdf

Rick



Way back when the M14 had a duplex load. one bullet hit about 6" lower than the other..

[nanuk]

Hhmmm . . . The only loads I've ever heard called "duplex" or "triplex" loads were those using two and three different powders. Very dangerous thing to do but it is what Dick Casull did to develop the 454 (triplex load) before FA started making the revolver.

Glen discusses stacked bullets like this in his book. Chapter 9, page 85.

http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_textonly2.pdf

Rick

I remember reading an article where they used that term also.....

Another writer chastized the term in a followup article and suggested "Multiple Projectile Load" to avoid any confusion

[jameslovesjammie]

Winchester is now doing the same thing in their .410 loads for the Judge. They have 3 discs and 12 pellets of size BB shot.

[alamogunr]

A few years ago, on one of the auction sites, someone marketed a mold that cast multiple round balls, connected somehow, that could then be stacked in a 12 ga shell. Don't know if it worked but it looked like it would make a wicked defense load.

[cbrick]

A few years ago, on one of the auction sites, someone marketed a mold that cast multiple round balls, connected somehow, that could then be stacked in a 12 ga shell. Don't know if it worked but it looked like it would make a wicked defense load.

I remember reading that also, was a thin braided stainless wire run between the cavities before casting. Gave you a cable with several lead balls along its length.

I think wicked is a very mild word for this. Would stop a threat in a heart beat for sure.

Rick

[Blammer]

so my question is.
If your shooting IPSC and you put 3 shots into one 357 mag case, do you only have to engage the targets with one shot to get at least two holes in it to count for score? :D

seems you could increase your speed a bunch. :)

[beagle]

Dean Grennell wrote an article on those in one of the gun rags 20 years or so ago. As well as I recall, he addressed the .38 Special, ,357 Mag and .44 Mag and used H & G moulds.

I've basically duplicated those loads by "bumping" .360" soft round balls in a lubricator/sizer with a flat TP, dipping them in Lee's Alox lube cut with lighter fluid and let dry.

Easy to load using the expander plug on your die set and the crimp die for the top slug.

A two ball load in the .38 Special is pretty devestating up to 25 yards and they're pretty deadly close up. I carry them a lot of snakes.

3 balls in the .357 Mag and two in the .44 Mag and .45 Colt. The .44 Mag and .45 COlt are good to about 50 yards./beagle

[para45lda]

I believe it was Ross Seyfried that addressed multiple projectile loads back in the 80's.

[Russ in WY]

Was in on that was a big deal going in it seemed , after Lee dropped the ball on it .. Then afterward's seemed to Die on the Vine . I got a 3 Cav 2x75 + 1x100. Have loaded several diff combination of both weights 38 & 357 .. Work out just fine .. Russ.