General mold selection questions

[dragon813gt]

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[captaint]

dragon - The molds for 9mm should drop at .358 - .357 minimun. Are there any guarantees that a factory mold will be right - no... Your best bet is probably RCBS for getting a mold to drop boolits at the diameter you need. That's the short answer. enjoy Mike

[Echo]

Consider whether you will be loading as cast, or sizing. If sizing, what system? And How lubricating? Standard loob groove boolits take to TL'ing just fine, but Star, or LAM/Lyman, or pan-loobing work, too. And slug the bore, to ensure the groove diameter - .356 is a sometime thing. Once you are sure of the groove diameter, you will be more able to correctly select a boolit mold. I've heard the Lee 105 gr .358 SWC works fine in many 9's.

[runfiverun]

i know what i like in a mold, and what i think a booliit should look like.
i am set up for it.

pick a system and figure out all the little things.

i can cast with a lee mold and i can tumble lube if i have to.
but i am geared up to run square lube grooves, i like them, they do what i want.

b.t.w. molds made for other calibers will work just fine in others.
i use a 38 125 rnfp in the 9mm ,and not my 9mm boolit, it works better
swap 45 acp and 45 colt boolits back and forth.
use a 38-40 boolit in the 40 S&W.