Weaver cluster mold??

[DHurtig]

Found a Weaver cluster mold listed on E-bay. A google search turned up nothing. Does anybody have any info on this company in general or this mold in particular? It seems that it would be to big to fit in a 12 gauge, but it sure is interesting. Dale

http://www.ebay.com/itm/180972782304?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[I'll Make Mine]

The listing claims the individual balls are .312, which is smaller than 00 buck (barely bigger than 0); four of those should just fit in one layer in a 12 ga. shell (possibly only without a shot cup wad. Four layers of 'em, assuming they stay together for the shot, ought to really do a number on anything they hit. You won't get the nice even pattern you would with loose 0 buckshot, though...

[adrians]

might be good to slug you 30 cal bores.

[Wayne Smith]

Anybody familiar with the maker?

[I'll Make Mine]

might be good to slug you 30 cal bores.

Oh, that thought did cross my mind, but each ball will have two sprue cuts (three on the top one), so even if .312 were big enough for my .313 groove Mosin Nagant, there'd be no way to keep the sprues from ruining accuracy.

[beagle]

Crazy Mark has one and he sent me a bag full of the clusters and I later borrowed the mould and ran a few. Don't recall who made them but he was hawking them on E-Bay a few years back.

The setup is pretty crude but they made loadable clusters.

I loaded a few for the 12 guage and shot them and wasn't overly impressed.

The concept was originally for urban warfare. Punch a hole through drywall, then the cluster seperates and you have buckshot bouncing around inside a room.

Really couldn't see any use for them./beagle

[deltaenterprizes]

He has been around for a long time selling molds and bullet making machines. He ran ads in the late 80s in "The Shotgun News" for 10 cavity molds and a casting machine that did 25,000/hr using 10 cavity molds!
I have seen him on a machinist site and invited him to visit here but do not know if he ever checked in or not.