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Anyone ever see anything like this? I sure haven't.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IDEAL-LYMAN-BULLET-MOLD-458191-300-45-70-RARE-LOOK-/130591704439?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e67df4577
I'm not advertising, or plumping for, this sale - just VERY CURIOUS!
DLCTEX
10-30-2011, 01:54 PM
I'm curious what the brass? plug between the bullet and roundball cavities. Was it an attempt to make the bullet a hollowpoint?
357maximum
10-30-2011, 02:14 PM
Looks like bubba ran out of guns [smilie=b:
It looks to me as though the pin, when removed, allowed one to pour into the big RB mold, through to the boolit mold, and cast a RB and a boolit at the same time. Would have to separate the two. If that was not desired, then leave the brass in and just pour RB's.
Duh. A solution in search of a problem.
Or?
Wayne Smith
10-30-2011, 04:23 PM
Definitely bubbaed, too. No way I'd pay for it.
KYCaster
10-30-2011, 07:28 PM
Looks to me like a pretty neat tool for the guy with a .36 cal. revolver, a .50 cal. ML and a trapdoor Springfield.
If you want to cast balls, just leave a boolit in the cavity and you'll have to trim the sprue and the hicky from the HP tunnel.
Cast boolits?....Leave a ball in the big cavity and you have to trim the hicky from the nose....or insert the proper pin and cast HP's.
Necessity is the mother of invention. :drinks:
Jerry
1Shirt
10-31-2011, 09:20 AM
Dad used to say that there are some things that are sort of "a cross between a barbed wire fence and an SOB". Think this might be one of those!
1Shirt!:coffee:
Bret4207
11-01-2011, 07:10 AM
I've seen Lymans with multiple cavities before, but not like that. Bubba is right, but Bubba did a decent job this time.
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