Pls help I.D. this mold

[Guesser]

Got this at a small gun show in northern Montana last winter. I have never seen a mold designed like this. It drops a 200 grain+/- 45 cal WC at .456 from 50/50 WW/PB. Can anyone help? The only markings are 454 and 510. It came with the handles.

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[engineer401]

It looks like a Modern Bond mold. The mold is for a 45 Colt. See this link. http://www.castpics.net/subsite/HistMolds/ModernBondMolds.html The handles do not appear to be that make.

[Mk42gunner]

The handles look a lot like a set of Hensley and Gibbs that I used to have. They did not have any markings on them either.

Robert

[PS Paul]

Neat design. I've got two Lyman 452389 molds which throw a 185 gr. button-nose wadcutter, but your design there is more squared off at the face.

Have you shot any of these yet? I shoot the 452389 in .45 Colt and .45 ACP with some really nice results. I'm surprised .45 wadcutter designs are not very popular, but I figure not many bullseye shooters actually shoot .45 boolits.

[Guesser]

I tried some in a Ruger NMBH 45 Colt over Trail Boss, less than spectacular!! Wanted to try them in 45 A.R. for a Colt New Service but haven't ironed out the seating problems yet. I'm not sure just yet what I'm going to do here.

[PS Paul]

The best results I had so far in .45 Colt, oddly enough, was a med-heavy load of IMR 4227. 19.0 gr. more or less. I tried some faster powders like Unique and Green Dot, but not quite as accurate.

Felix recommended some 700-X loads with the boolit crimped on the top driving band, but I can't find that powder right now. I just crimped over the shoulder and had very good results with the heavier load, which was sort of counter-intuitive, considering the typical "wadcutters with fast powder" axioms......

I am gonna try some 2400 in carying charges (light to heavy) and see how that works.

Don't know if this helps or not, but I figured I would share my experience anyway, FWIW.