New 9mm Mould

[Mike W1]

After mulling it over for awhile I decided to buy a Lyman 2-cavity mould for my LC9. (356402) Been hearing lot's of complaints about their quality and I was a little skeptical but I happen to not be able to cast with aluminum moulds worth a hoot.

Degreased it, cleaned out the pot, hit it with some NEI Mould Prep and had at it. I use a warming shelf on my pot so after about 6 casts I started saving them. This one's a good mould. Didn't separate the bullets by cavity but weighed and measured 15 of them.

Hi Weight 123.8 Lo 122.9 AVG 123.3
Diameters Hi .3589" Lo .3572" AVG .3575"

They dropped just fine from both cavities. If Lyman's quality is bad,a real fine one slipped through the system. I'm real happy to say the least. Now I'll have to see how it shoots.

[MtGun44]

From what I have been able to tell, Lyman's quality is inconsistent. My guess is that there
are a lot of good ones, but we hear about the bad ones, not the good ones. Good to hear
about a good one.

Bill

[rintinglen]

MtGun44 hit it right on the head. I have five Lyman molds purchased since 2009. A 358-665, a 429-383, a 375-449, a 356-402 and a 311-008. ALL CAST GOOD BOOLITS TO PROPER SIZE. My only complaint is that they often don't cut the vent lines deep enough. I as a matter of course take a needle file and deepen them.
I have no doubt that they produce the occasional clinker, no one hits a home run all the time.. But some folks hereabouts maintain that all they make is junk, that you are gambling your life savings if you buy anything that Lyman sells, and that you better have a pocket full of four leaf clovers if you hope to get a good one. Well, maybe they are just unlucky: some guys would be broke if it rained silver dollars, but I have a hard time buying off on some of the stuff I read.

[Cherokee]

That is a good bullet for 9mm, I use a lot of them. Glad the mould was good.

[Mike W1]

Haven't shot any just yet but going to load a few up this evening. I had thought of the 147 gr one but this one was in stock. Good to know if it doesn't turn out too good it's probably something I did wrong!