Did you design that Accurate Mold?

[MBTcustom]

Hey fellers. Accurate Molds rocks. We all know that. He's not much for talking on the phone, but he'll help you design a mold for free and cut it and send you a superbly made piece of down home American made goodness, and he'll do it so fast it makes the group buy guys cuss a blue streak.
Once your mold is in your hot little hands, he puts the design up in his catalogue for all to see, admire, and possibly purchase.

I was just scrolling through, dreaming of the next project I'm going to have him do for me, and as i looked at the strange, the interesting, and the epic mold designs he offers, I found myself wishing I knew which ones were designed or modified by which of our members, and what purpose they had in mind when they had him change/create it?
I figured I would just make a post and ask, because it would be good for Tom, and it would be good for us!

SO!

Which one is yours?
Why did you design/modify it, for which gun/purpose?
How well did it work?
What would you do different if you could?
Post the link to your boolit and let us know!
The purpose behind this is to learn about the designs in Tom's catalog, so even if you had nothing to do with it, if you know what it's intended purpose was go ahead and tell us so that everybody can know.


Here's a legend of the designers and their comments:
(I will organize as the list grows.)
30-150L texassako.........7.35 Carcano........................Post#27
30-160P geargnasher.......Paperpatch 30-06.................Post#44
30-190p geargnasher.......Paperpatch 30-06.................Post#44
31-077B FergusonTO35.....32 Auto.............................Post#102
31-090A w30wcf..............32 Long.............................Post#74
31-090L hporter.............313249 likeness....................Post #93
31-090R Springfield................Black Powder................Post#65
31-090S w30wcf..............32 Long.............................Post#74
31-100X stu1ritter........ ......................Post#141
31-114D Outpost75............32 S&W...........................Post#152
31-115C dancingbear41......30 Carbine........................Post#148
31-115K w30wcf...............30 W.C.F..........................Post#74
31-120B longbow.................???????................... ......Post#68
31-125D Outpost75............30M1 ...........................Post#152
31-134D Outpost75............rook rifles........................Post#152
31-142C popper................Slick 300BLK......................Post#156
31-145C popper................Slick 300BLK......................Post#156
31-150l jason f...............copy of 312440 ..................Post#147
31-155D Outpost75.........Appleseed Trainer...................Post#152
31-160G goodsteel...........30 XCB hunter.....................post#159
31-165A tomme boy.....308 Win.................................Post#13
31-165C popper ..........308AR + 30-30......................Post#17&124
31-165D history@mts.net...for 94 Winchester..............Post#123
31-180R Rickin TN........30 caliber with long throats......Post#10
31-185G geargnasher.......John Ardito.........................Post#44
31-190G Dutch4122.........long throated Mosin Nagants Post#23
31-190X geargnasher.........30XCB hunting bullet..............
31-200Z IdahoFireman......300blk.......................... .....Post#146
31-205B tomme boy.....M39 Finn worn throat..............Post#13
31-210H history@mts.net...for Lee speed 303............Post#123
31-215B tomme boy.....91/30 Sniper rifle....................Post#13
31-235B StratsMan.......300AAC BLK Full Length.........Post#16
31-240B rhbrink............3/4" throat...........................Post#29
32-155L texassako.......32 Remington Model 8............Post#27
32-170B Marvin S................32-40/32spl...................Post#61
32-175B Deep Six.................Light 8X57....................Post#36
32-180B w30wcf............32-40 Hi Power...................Post#74
32-200G Dutch4122.........long throated(.315"+) Mosin Nagants...................Post#23
32-200P Hardcast416taylor....Mauser paper patch........Post#155
32-205B BPT/Felix/..........Yugo Mauser.......................Post#150
32-215B FrankG.................8mm-06.........................Post#101
32-220B walltube...........323471 inspired....................post#119
33-235B craig61a...........frankinboolit.................. ......Post#139
34-201L winelover ...........338WinMag.......................Post#18
34-230B PWS.......................338WM................... .....Post#48
35-125C gefiltephish...........PC boolit.........................Post#80
35-140S Grandpas50AE...........38 Super......................Post#116
35-150Z Ausglock..................357Sig.................. .....Post#111
35-168Z Ausglock..................357Sig.................. .....Post#111
36-130W AKtinman...............38special.................. ......Post#136
36-140C Springfield................Black Powder................Post#65
36-140L TomAM..............Lever gun mold.....................Post#87
36-155D Outpost75.........38 "Colt Special"..................Post#152
36-155WT stu1ritter........358 Winchester......................Post#141
36-160C w30wcf............38/.357 levergun...................Post#74
36-160E geargnasher.......Experimental.................... ...Post#44
36-160H ????..................Ruger LC9..........................Post #80
36-160Q detox................????......................... .........Post#19
36-162V Beagle333.........Good 357Mag boolit.............Post#45
36-170J GLL..................IDEAL 358429 Keith design.....Post#24
36-170T MAGLVR...........357Mag. to OAL spec............Post#21
36-200RT jmort................357Mag SBH........................post#160
36-207B badgeredd............357Max lever....................Post#52
36-215M goodsteel.........358 winchester + wildcats.......Post#2
36-230D youngda9...........358 stainless Hawkeye........Post#31
36-230F badgeredd........modified Lyman 358315.........Post#52
36-240l jason f................................................. ....Post#147
36-245S youngda9...........Saeco #352 clone..............Post#31
36-250B MarkP...............XP100R........................ .......Post#47&135
36-265B white eagle.......358 win...............................Poat#104
36-270B MarkP...............Rem M SEVEN KS's ..............Post#47
36-280B MarkP...............Rem 673 in 350 Rem Mag......Post#47
37-095b badbob454.........Makarov......................... ..Post#135
37-100J badbob454.........Makarov......................... ..Post#135
37-280H history@mts.net...for 9.3x62.......................Post#123
37-355H history@mts.net...for 9.3x57......................Post#123
38-210R John Boy................9.5 x47R.......................Post#71
38-270H jason f................................................. ...Post#147
38-285D rhbrink............38-55 w/long throat..............Post#29
38-300D Boolseye...........379300D........................ .....post#158
38-315E NVScouter........for the 375 H&H..................post#126&127
40-140C Member?..............400 Corbon......................Post#67
40-145C MikeS..................400 Corbon.....................Post#112
40-175C mktacop...............400 Corbon.....................Post#112
40-195G fredj338...............????....................... .......Post#153
41-190W JonB_in_Glencoe.....41Mag WC....................Post#38
41-200Z kweidner....357PD and coated boolits.............Post#125&130
41-210L TomAM..............Lever gun mold.....................Post#87
41-330C Loudenboomer.....405 win High wall..............Post#28
41-390P Nobade..................PTG 416 Taylor...............Post#60
42-310B MarkP...............416 BACwildcat ...................Post#47
42-330C Dutch4122........416 Russian Express...........Post#23
42-345C Dutch4122.........416 Russian Express..........Post#23
42-375C badgeredd............416 Russian.....................Post#52
42-400B MarkP...............416 BACwildcat....................Post#47
42-440B 338RemUltraMag...416 Rigby.........................Post#86
43-165B longbow..............44 mag Marlin....................Post#68
43-205JB enfieldphile..........TC .44 bevel base...............Post#134
43-210B cajun shooter......44-40...............................Post#154
43-225D Outpost75..........44 Special.........................Post#152
43-215W stu1ritter........358 Winchester......................Post#141
43-220C w30wcf..................44-40..........................Post#74
43-230C TCFAN.............44Mag Marlin-low speed...........Post#32
43-240L TomAM..............Lever gun mold.....................Post#87
43-240W AKtinman...............44mag...................... ......Post#136
43-240Z TomAM...............reversible pin bullet..............No Comment
43-200Q Outpost75..........44-40 ..............................Post#152
43-230G Outpost75..........44-40 ..............................Post#152
43-260V youngda9.............629-4............................Post#31
43-270WC GLL.............44 Special revolvers................Post#24
43-280H phaessler..........Levergun???.................... .....Post#15
43-310B texassako.........10.35 Italian Vetterli.............Post#27
43-3199 John in PA.......10.4MM Italian Vetterli............ Post#82
43-390W SquirrelHollow.....Boat Tail Wadcutter..............Post#149
43-425M SquirrelHollow.....444 borerider.......................Post#149
44-260B Heavy lead..............44 Magnum...................Post#43
44-360L Dutch4122...............43 Mauser.....................Post#23
45-170C rodwha...................Cap-N-Ball......................Post#73
45-195C rodwha...................Cap-N-Ball......................Post#73
45-225B RobS..............Revolver/lever/45ACP..............Post#96
45-225E Deep Six.................45ACP/45Colt...................Post#36
45-230L geargnasher...... Modified Lee 45ACP .............Post#44
45-230LL bones37............Modified Lee 45ACP..............Post#72
45-230T RobS..................45ACP....................... .......post#151
45-230V RobS..................45ACP....................... .......post#151
45-230X RobS.....................revolver/lever.................Post#96
45-231E enfieldphile.........45 revolvers......................Post#138
45-235R RobS.............Revolver/lever/45ACP...............Post#96
45-240A Outpost75........45ACP revolver......................Post#5
45-245D Outpost75.........45 Auto Rim........................Post#152
45-260B w30wcf...............45 Colt rifle.......................Post#74
45-260C Heavy lead.............45 Colt..........................Post#43
45-260G geargnasher.......Universaly putrid..................Post#44
45-265L TomAM..............Lever gun mold.....................Post#87
45-280C ????..................454 casull...........................Post #85
45-285C rodwha...................Cap-N-Ball......................Post#73
45-295B tomme boy........45 Colt Handi Rifle................Post#13
45-300B RobS.............Revolver/lever.........................Post#96
45-300C Heavy lead............ 454 Casull......................Post#43
45-310B RobS..........lever action tangent design..........Post#96
45-310D RobS..............Experimental.................... ......Post#96
45-340B RobS.............Revolver/lever.........................Post#96
45-340l jason f................................................. .....Post#147
45-345A RobS.............Revolver/lever.........................Post#96
46-350V The Real Doc Holliday...copilot 45-70..............Post#78
46-350V phaessler..........Levergun???.................... .....Post#15
46-375B RobS................Marlin 45-70.........................Post#96
46-375G RobS................Marlin 45-70.........................Post#96
46-405K Bjornb..................1895Marlin................ ........No Comment
46-405V The Real Doc Holliday...copilot 45-70..............Post#78
46-405V devinp..............1895 Marlin 45-70.................post#145
46-405M Jailer...................1895 SBL.........................Post#56
46-420C white eagle.............45-70...........................Post#83
46-430V The Real Doc Holliday...copilot 45-70..............Post#78
46-525VG devinp..............1895 Marlin 45-70.................post#145
46-540V The Real Doc Holliday...copilot 45-70..............Post#78
46-550H history@mts.net...for .458 Winchester...........Post#123
48-350K white eagle.............480 Ruger......................Post#83
48-400T doubledown..............470 Turnbull.................Post#53
50-440N Dutch4122.........500 S&WMag H&R Handi-Rifle.....Post#23+39
50-725W Sharpeye....................BFR................... ......Post#115
502-725W ????????.......................................... ..........Post#140
51-320E 451whitworth..........1886 50-110 WCF...........Post#114
51-450C Kansas Ed..........50-100-450.......................Post#137
51-450D Kansas Ed..........50-100-450.......................Post#137
51-700C McFred.................big honkin pig boolit..........Post#157
51-700D doubledown.............500 Jeffery...................Post#53
55-420M doubledown.............smoke pole...................Post#53
73-770S white eagle.............12 gauge slug................Post#31

[MBTcustom]

This is one that Tom helped me design:
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-215M-D.png
It was designed to be a dual use mold between my 358Malcolm wildcat, and my first 358 Winchester.
At the last minute, I got dazzled by one of his catalog designs and ordered that one instead (36-210A) so I never got a chance to try it, but Tom still put it in his catalog.

[MBTcustom]

What do you say fellers? Step right up and take credit for that godawful gob of solidified galena!

[nanuk]

I guess you are the only one to admit they designed one...

[Outpost75]

45-240A for .45 ACP revolver

95854

[MBTcustom]

Nice boolit outpost! Why did you do it just that way? How does it shoot?

[osteodoc08]

I've thought about designing one, but can usually find a suitable mold in Tom's catalogue. Maybe I'll make one, just 'cause I can.

[Outpost75]

Nice boolit outpost! Why did you do it just that way? How does it shoot?

Wanted maximum crush for low velocity game load, which would also feed in a .45 Colt Cowboy rifle, but act on game like a wadcutter. It shoots very well at short ranges within 25 yards, my primary use for it. No problem shooting a ragged hole with 4.5 grains of Bullseye from my Ruger Blackhawk with .45 ACP cylinder or 7 grs. of Bullseye in .45 Colt brass, but meplat is too large to carry up at longer ranges. At 50 yards dispersion is nonlinear, groups open to over 6" and at 100 yards in a rifle, even when loaded hot with a compressed caseful of #2400 at 1300 fps you can do better with a 5 iron hitting driving range pickup balls...

[MBTcustom]

Perfect! Thanks for sharing!

[RickinTN]

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/31-180R-D.png I have a Remington 700 30-06 and a few model 700 308's which all share a similar long throat. Tom helped me design the 31-180R to fit and fill the throats of my rifles. It fits my 308's with the base of the gas check even with the bottom of the case neck and the nose/front driving band touching the throats in my rifles. It fits the '06 well also with the gas check up in the case neck a little of course. I've only had opportunity to do limited testing with this bullet so far but it appears to be working quite well.
Rick

[MBTcustom]

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/31-180R-D.png I have a Remington 700 30-06 and a few model 700 308's which all share a similar long throat. Tom helped me design the 31-180R to fit and fill the throats of my rifles. It fits my 308's with the base of the gas check even with the bottom of the case neck and the nose/front driving band touching the throats in my rifles. It fits the '06 well also with the gas check up in the case neck a little of course. I've only had opportunity to do limited testing with this bullet so far but it appears to be working quite well.
Rick

I saw that one on the site. That's one I was looking at and wondering why only one lube groove? Very unique design!
Thanks for sharing!

[RickinTN]

I saw that one on the site. That's one I was looking at and wondering why only one lube groove? Very unique design!
Thanks for sharing!

It actually was based on another of Tom's molds which only had the single lube groove then modified for my rifles. Two of the goals in addition to fit were to keep the lube groove/grooves in the neck of the fairly short necked 308 case and to maximize bearing surface. The long throats of my rifles seem to be a blessing in the maximum bearing surface department and I think will prove to be an advantage in the bullet/bore alignment department as well.
Rick

[tomme boy]

Here is my list that I had him design for me.

1) 31-165A

2) 31-205B

3) 31-215B

4) 45-295B

#1 was for a 308 Win. that I had. This was my first mold I worked with Tom for me. It works very well! Ask Run5run. Thats who I sold it to. I think he has it going 2400 fps now. I sold the barrel that this was made for that was why I got rid of it.

#2 was made for a M39 Finn that had a very worn throat. This shot really great in it. I could hold 2 MOA with it at 100 yds. Run also bought this one.

#3 was made for a slightly used Original 91/30 Sniper rifle. It works very well in that one and 2 other Mosins and a M1917 303 Brit.

#4 I designed but never ordered. It was going to made for a 45 Colt Handi Rifle.

[MBTcustom]

Y'all gettin the idea?
This is going to be a huge help in finding the right mold for your application.
All I ask is that you give an honest opinion of how it worked. The mold that I bought (36-210A) didn't work very well in any rifle I tried it in. but I didn't design it, I just bought it.
I'm hoping this thread will be a kind of buyers/designers guide.
Keep it up fellers!

[phaessler]

Did two with Tom so far. Used TMT cast bullet design to draw/figure them up.
43-280H http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=43-280H-D.png
46-400C http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=46-400C-D.png

As big a meplat as I could get to still feed in a levergun, but they definitely hit like a freight train. They work no doubt and the 43-280H also does double duty in my Redhawk/Marlin 1894. .44Rem Mag
My 1895CB . 45-70GOVT handles the 46-400C well, did do a little carrier work, but very solid in function.

Wouldn't change a thing.

95858

Great thread goodsteel. Nice to see why others do what they did too.

Pete

[StratsMan]

I can lay claim to the design of one mold on that site...

31-235B

I wanted one for 300BLK that went full length of the magazine. Found a good start in his catalog, but I also prefer the more graceful line of a longer curve on the ogive. So I stretched and modified an existing design and came up with that one. Kinda flattering that others have taken my shape from the front driving band forward and modified the back end to make it their own. Most obvious design change was making a PB instead of my GC design. I wanted the GC so I can have the option of higher speed from an '06....

[popper]

31-165C for powder coating in 308W. 165A works great in the AR carbine (yes, 2400+, still testing in the 24" upper) & Marlin 30/30, haven't gotten this 1 yet to test. GC design, smaller nose, LG is for collecting lead from the long bore ride section. Wider rear band for sans GC in the 30/30 (1400+ so far with the A version). He did a 125 BB 9mm for PC, with a shallow LG but don't think he cat'd it. Works great, bout 1" @ 7 in XDs.

[winelover]

I had Tom clone the Lyman 338320, it's listed as 34-201L-----does what I expected it to do in my Winchester 338 Magnum M-70 Classic. Was looking for a reduced velocity load that wouldn't pound the shooter, but still adequate for hunting whitetails. Just need to harvest a deer with it one of these days. I wanted brass and didn't want to wait in excess of one year.

95864

Winelover

[detox]

So far i have shot my best 25 yard group using it (top right target in groups fired). I was compairing soft 16/1 vs. hard linotype alloy using Tin Star powder, LBT Soft Blue lube and CCI standard small pistol primers.

In theory a nose heavy bullet will stabilize better at longer ranges. Which is one of the reasons for no crimp groove.

Gun: S&W 686 6" barrel 357 Magnum with 2 power scope

[MBTcustom]

Good stuff fellers! Keep em coming!
Feel free to say as much as you want about what gun they were designed for, or what special conditions you were trying to overcome.

[jmort]

My favorite boolit, not to mention Accurate boolit, was designed by a member. I posted how much I absolutely love the boolit, but also that is exactly at SAAMI spec OAL. Got this nice PM from maglvr

"Accurate mold 36-170T
Good day Sir:
I am glad to hear you like your 36-170T, I was the one that "invented it", I got the idea from their #36-240B, and asked Tom to shorten it to 170 grains.
As it turned out (just by luck of the draw) it's length from base to top groove is the same as the famed 358429 is from base to crimp groove, and naturally the weights are the same also, making it really easy to find tons of loads for any application.
I only shoot full power loads and have settled on 14gr of 2400, sparked with a small rifle primer, in 357 brass. it sure does the job!
Safe and Happy shooting!!
maglvr"

[MBTcustom]

Thanks for the help!
Near as I can tell, we've already got a name and application for some of Toms molds. I figure he's got in the neighborhood of 1370 designs listed in his catalog. I hope we can get half of them here at least.
This should give us an idea of what would be a good match for our guns, and if there are any questions, you know who to PM! If they don't know, they know where to go!

[Dutch4122]

Tom has listened to my feeble minded attempts at boolit design and has come up with six different designs for me:

31-190G - For the long throated Mosin Nagants

32-200G - For the long throated and overly fat grooved (.315"+) Mosin Nagants

42-330C & 42-345C - For the .416 Russian Express

44-360L - For the .43 Mauser

50-440N - For the .500 S&W Magnum H&R Handi-Rifle

[GLL]

Tom has designed over a dozen for me but here are two of my favorites. They are really just modifications of old IDEAL designs.

The 43-270WC was designed for my old .44 Special revolvers.
http://www.fototime.com/A844654C57FB624/orig.jpg

43-270WC
http://www.fototime.com/8F95495D13D5995/large.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/802153ED687B012/large.jpg

The 36-170J is a take on the IDEAL 358429 Keith design but modified a bit for my .38/44 Outdoorsman revolvers (.38 Special). It is too long for many modern short cylinder N frames though !
http://www.fototime.com/3F7A8BDFAAE1956/orig.jpg

36-170J
http://www.fototime.com/75A9177CDDAF5A1/large.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/14B043371E77817/large.jpg

Jerry

[MBTcustom]

50-440 - For the .500 S&W Magnum H&R Handi-Rifle

Hey Dutch, Was that mold B G or N???

[MBTcustom]

Tom has designed over a dozen for me but here are two of my favorites.
Jerry

Hey Jerry, if you have any others there in his catalog, would you mind puttin you john hancock to 'em? Don't need but a "yeah I did it" and a "here's why" even if its a "I dont know what I was thinking" kind of thing.

[texassako]

I I have had 3 made for very specific applications with Tom's help.

30-150L: Made it because the Lyman 300136 for the 7.35 Carcano is impossible to find. It is very accurate, but needs the neck turned to fit the tight chamber. It uses a .30 caliber gas check instead of the to small 7mm GC Lyman originally used. I would eliminate the front groove Lyman put on there if I did it again.

43-310B: I tried to replicate the original 10.35 Italian Vetterli bullet. If I did it again I would flip it over and fit a hollow base pin. It still needs more testing with BP, but Unique is putting them in a 2" circle at 50 yards. Trail Boss was a dismal failure, keyholes and a bit of leading

32-155L: I wanted a flat nose version of the Lyman 321317 for my .32 Remington Model 8. It was designed for the cartridge after all. It is the best bullet, cast or knackered, I have ever run in any Remington Model 8 or 81 in any caliber, and can be run faster than jacketed, even with aircooled coww alloy. I wish it were a little heavier. I need to make a version for .30 Rem for a side by side comparison, update: it looks like someone did it already with the 31-150G

[Loudenboomer]

I had Tom make up the #41-330 C. I wanted a nose rider with 2 lube groves and no crimp grove. Works great in my .405 win High wall. Soon to be tried in the .414 super mag contender.

[rhbrink]

I have two of them on Tom's website The first is 31-240B I designed this one for a friend that had bought a new Savage BVSS to use in bench rest competition and the Savage had a very short throat. So he took it to a local gunsmith to have the throat reamed out a bit so that he could shoot a heavier bullet without shoving the gas check half way down the case. The gunsmith absolutely had no idea what he was doing and by the time he quit he had a throat .750 long. Now my friend had a throat that he could shoot a very long 8 mm bullet in and was in worse shape than before. He was really upset as anyone could imagine and was wanting to send the rifle back to Savage and have a new barrel installed for quite a price. I talked him into letting me try to make a bullet to fit and figured that would be a whole lot cheaper that a new barrel. I basically took the Saeco 315 and made it longer and big enough to fit and Tom cut the mold. As luck would have it the bullet shot great and we now have a very happy camper.

The 38-285D I designed to fit a 38-55 that I had that had a rather large throat and I wanted a plain base no nonsense bullet to shoot in front of smokeless powders out to 200 yards. And it's proven to be a very good shooter too.

RB

[square butte]

I am thoroughly enjoying this thread. The Accurate Molds catalog is one of my favorite places to day dream. Have though about having Tom help me design a couple.

[white eagle]

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=73-770S-D.png,
this is the first full bore 12 ga. shotgun slug that was designed my Accurate
I can not take all the credit for its design Tom and I collaborated on it to get it where it is
now there are a plethora of shotgun slugs cataloged
I have also tweeked more designs and are now catalog items

[TCFAN]

I can't say I designed it, I just told Tom what I had in mind and he came up with 43-230C. I wanted a gas check .434 dia. 230gr.RFN for my 44 mag Marlin model 94 Cowboy.I use it at 44-40 velocity for a general use all around load.

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/TCintheOzarks/DSCN8453.jpg (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/TCintheOzarks/media/DSCN8453.jpg.html)

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/TCintheOzarks/DSCN8454.jpg (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/TCintheOzarks/media/DSCN8454.jpg.html)

[MBTcustom]

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=73-770S-D.png,
this is the first full bore 12 ga. shotgun slug that was designed my Accurate
I can not take all the credit for its design Tom and I collaborated on it to get it where it is
now there are a plethora of shotgun slugs cataloged
I have also tweeked more designs and are now catalog items

Would you mind telling us which ones you "tweaked", and why you tweakified them? ie to what end?
I'm trying to compile a full list of Toms molds that our membership had personal involvement with. Booliteers are just more trustworthy than non boliteers, so we all want to know what our bully membership has given the thumbs up to.
No greater thumb can be lifted than the act of designing and ordering a mold.
Please don't be bashful!
Name it and claim it fellers!

[texassako]

I forgot one and editted my post above to add the 32-155L.

[MBTcustom]

I forgot one and editted my post above to add the 32-155L.

Gotcha.

[Deep Six]

What a great idea for a thread!

I have two designs in Tom's catalog:

1. 32-175B: This is a lighter gas-check design for the 8x57. This will shoot sub-inch groups over 18 gr 2400 in my Yugo 24/47. For a heavier load, it also does excellent over 30 gr IMR 4198 with dacron filler. The nose is kinda short/blunt to feed very well but it's possible once you get the feel for how to move the bolt.

2. 45-225E: The idea behind this one was a dual caliber (45 acp and 45 colt) boolit. It is standard weight for the acp to maintain poa/poi and the nose length/shape is designed for proper feeding in the 1911 when seated at the shoulder. In 45 Colt it is seated to crimp in the groove (this does make it too long for the SAA). It does feed well in the 1911s and is very accurate over any powder I've tried in the acp. In 45 Colt it makes an excellent target load over 6.5 Red Dot. My only complaint is that it doesn't cut as clean a hole in paper targets as I thought it would when I designed it. I wish I would have sprung for the 5 cavity instead of the 3 cavity I have it in.

[MBTcustom]

What a great idea for a thread!

I have two designs in Tom's catalog:

1. 32-175B: This is a lighter gas-check design for the 8x57. I haven't done a lot of testing yet but it's showing good promise lubed with Ben's Red over 31 Gr IMR4198 in my Yugo 24/47. The nose is too short/blunt to feed very well so it's pretty much a single-shot.

2. 45-225E: The idea behind this one was a dual caliber (45 acp and 45 colt) boolit. It is standard weight for the acp to maintain poa/poi and the nose length/shape is designed for proper feeding in the 1911 when seated at the shoulder. In 45 Colt it is seated to crimp in the groove (this does make it too long for the SAA). It does feed well in the 1911s and is very accurate over any powder I've tried in the acp. In 45 Colt it makes an excellent target load over 6.5 Red Dot. My only complaint is that it doesn't cut as clean a hole in paper targets as I thought it would when I designed it. I wish I would have sprung for the 5 cavity instead of the 3 cavity I have it in.

Good to know deep six, thanks for the input!

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

A 41 wadcutter mold is a rare thing. So, I ordered a button nose WC (41-190W) from Tom for loading 41 Mag in a revolver. Honestly I didn't have anything to do with designing it. Either it was already in the catalog, or there was a 44 cal version in the catalog (43-210W)and I just asked for the same thing in 41 cal. I was a casting newbie at the time ...way back in Oct. 2010.

So Goodsteel, no earth shattering design info to glean here :(

http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu127/JonB_in_Glencoe/100_1384.jpg (http://s640.photobucket.com/user/JonB_in_Glencoe/media/100_1384.jpg.html)

[Dutch4122]

Hey Dutch, Was that mold B G or N???

My bad, it is "N." (Original post has been edited)95887

The idea behind this boolit was a reasonably well balanced clone of the similar Lyman 515141 design for the 50-70. When I bought the .500 S&W Mag Handi-Rifle my intention was to use it basically as a poor mans 50-70 with smokeless powder loads. I have shot 440 grain pistol boolits with much larger WFN meplats through the .500 and was not happy with their stability past 100 yards with reduced plinker loads. It was exactly those loads that caused a good friend to nickname my Handi-Rifle in .500 S&W Mag the "Knuckleballer." With 10 power binoculars he was watching the WFN pistol boolits enter his field of view in a helical arc as they approached the "general area of the target" 225 yards away!

So, I contacted Tom about designing a rifle boolit for my intended purpose.

[MBTcustom]

Gotcha. Thread updated.

[kayak1]

Great thread. The one issue I have with with the Catalog http://www.accuratemolds.com/catalog.php is it doesn't really give a lot of detail as to what each mold is designed for. I had to ask on this site before I ordered my mold for my 30-30. I have a 36-102C on order for 9mm. I would like to order a mold for my Remington model of 1917 (30-06) any suggestions?

[MBTcustom]

Great thread. The one issue I have with with the Catalog http://www.accuratemolds.com/catalog.php is it doesn't really give a lot of detail as to what each mold is designed for. I had to ask on this site before I ordered my mold for my 30-30. I have a 36-102C on order for 9mm. I would like to order a mold for my Remington model of 1917 (30-06) any suggestions?

That's exactly why I am doing this.

[Heavy lead]

45-300C 454 Casull Ruger Super Redhawk fits the throats with the short front band well it is a full diameter .05 length band
45-260C 45 Colt Ruger Blackhawk, Smith 25, very general boolit that shoots well when I want a lighter load
44-260B 44 Magnum, works well with Ruger's and Smith's another good general design that shoots when I want a lighter load
None of these are earth shattering, the top is very specific, but also shoots well in the 45 Colt Rugers, although I've come to favor a design from MM I put a longer nose and a longer front band on.
The bottom two don't have a front band and are bore size only meant to fit in anything I have since I have a plethora of 44's and 45's
All of them in brass 3 cavity molds cast wonderful and are among my favorites.
As well the 44 fits and feeds flawlessly in a Marlin 1894 44 magnum I have.

[geargnasher]

45-230L--- What Lee's TL452-230-2R SHOULD have been, or at least they should offer the same boolit with regular lube grooves and a flat base, basically a 45-228-1R base on the TL45-230. I see someone has altered it for single lube groove (the LL) and I'd love to know who and if they would be interested in swapping some boolits for comparison, it would add a dimension to an ongoing theory of mine and others about multi- vs single-lube-grooves. I designed the L to eliminate premature slide-lock in Kimber 1911s with the historically "proud" slide lock catch that gets tripped with fat, blunt boolits. The nose fits the magazine curvature and when the front band is seated "just" out of the case (to where it passes the Plunk Test in a variety of autos), the cartridges fit the 1911 single-stack magazine length perfectly with no binding and no slamming back and forth under recoil. The weight is the modern "normal" for the 1911 .45 automatic and won't require spring changes or sight adjustment vs FMJ ball ammo like the lighter cast can require. The dual lube grooves lube best when split between one row of holes in a Lyman or Star lube-sizer die. Not bragging, but simply stating, out of all of my .45 moulds, this one really does shoot the best in all of my autos. I really wanted the Miha 45-200 SWC to be the best, and it may be in some pistols, but not mine.

30-160P and 30-190P. Designed for modern, smokeless-powder paper patching in the .30-'06. The 190P is for worn guns with .301" or so bores, the 160P for .300" bores. One can spec either one to their exact bore without changing the boolit style. The taper matches an '06 throat, and the first band is an experiment in "patched bore riding" boolits where the nose is intended to be supported by the paper. Requires a minimum .009" jacket thickness to be effective.

31-185G. That one is styled after the John Ardito boolit, 311679, but with some obvious changes. The gas check shank is back-cut to perfectly match Hornady gas checks without shaving any lead as they "crimp" so as to minimize boolit deformation when base-first sizing/lubing. My ONLY complaint about this boolit is that I sold the only gun it fit, and the first nose diameter dimension should be reduced at least a thousandth to fit standard '06 throats. The taper from first band to middle of nose is ever so slightly too abrupt for the 1.5-degree '06 throat, but close 'nuff for most rifles. I will fix it and make the lube groove a proper radius instead of a square, it's on my to-do list before Tom hangs it up. The back-cut gas check shank is the best idea I've had in a long time, it really works as intended if you use Hornady checks, and I highly encourage others to try it out in their own designs.

36-160E. This one might be a flop. It was a "grand experiment" on my part with exact throat fitment. I was trying to force things into perfect alignment from the get-go and keep them that way. Here's why my idea sucked: First, throat fouling makes chambering impossible after about two cylinders worth. Second, this was an early mould design of mine and I was still eaten up with the "undersized mould" phobia from being burned with a dozen recent Lyman moulds that ALL were at least .002" under nominal at best no matter what tricks I used to cast fatter boolits (except Beagling). So, naturally, I ordered this one too big, but designed it with shallow lube grooves since most revolver boolits carry so much lube that it is more of a problem than a solution. The result is that by the time I size it down to .358", the nose is deformed and the lube grooves are all but wiped out. Oops. It might be a really good design if I'd ordered it in .358". The TC nose was Tom's idea, I was stuck with nose length restrictions due to .38 snubbies, but wanted to reach out and touch the cylinder throats. That meant instability issues with being too nose heavy. How to trim the nose weight? Easy, Tom said, make it a TC. There ya go. He's full of great ideas, all you have to do is ask.

45-260G. This one was an attempt at a "universal" .45 Colt mould to fit all my various and sundry guns. I spent a lot of time figuring out what would chamber in all of them and give the best nose support and static/dynamic fit. IIRC I even started a thread on it here to pick the general brains. I don't know why, but it flat will not shoot worth a hoot in any of them. None. Huge, scattered groups. It should have taught me something, but hasn't yet. If you think you want one I'll sell you mine, cheap. I should ask Tom to remove it from the catalog.

Ok, thats it for me, still need to design the end-all, be-all .30-30 mould and add the 360-220? that everyone with a .35 Remington Marlin needs to have, and also add more bevel to the 45-230L's shoulder such as the 45-200I has to reduce shaving in throatless .45s like the XD and M&P, but right now I don't have the time.


BTW, since everyone is coming out of the closet on this one, let me ask about the 45-255C Not mine but a great boolit. The only thing I'd change is make the first band full-bearing diameter at the base......OH!! Like the 45-250Y.....I see someone already had that idea. This is THE .45 Colt multi-purpose cowboy RFN as far as I'm concerned, fits everything, shoots great in everything, just wonderful. It is what the 454190 needed to be. I almost bought one of NOE's moulds when he ran a similar design, basically a Lyman 452664 with a plain base and better nose profile, but I wanted brass, so when I saw this in Tom's catalog a while later, I instantly ordered one. NOW I'm going to have to get a 250Y because that was the one mod I wanted to make but thought I'd give the 255C a shot first. It has not disappointed, but I can't leave well enough alone.

Gear

[Beagle333]

36-162V, for my .357s. Because I wanted to try a nice fat 81% meplat, I wanted a consistent dropping .360 boolit that was the same weight as my 357446 (162gr) which usually drops .3575, and I also didn't like the bevel base on the Lee SWC mold.
It shoots great and is fun to cast. I really like this boolit and don't think I'd change anything on this one.
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt214/shutupandjump/cast%20boolits/Picture126_zps5a9942e5.jpg

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt214/shutupandjump/cast%20boolits/Picture131_zps6b983f4e.jpg

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt214/shutupandjump/cast%20boolits/Picture137_zps392e3264.jpg

[MBTcustom]

Thanks for sharing Ian. I was dreading your arrival, but it wasn't too bad. LOL!
Gotcha covered.

Just want to thank everybody for helping me put this together. Should really help us:
A. learn what works and what doesn't.
B. decide what to buy based on others experiance
C. help us to know who to ask if we are unsure about a certain design, or to compare noted before dropping $150 on a new mold (I sure wish I could have asked somebody about that one I bought. I would have gone with something different! LOL!)

Thanks for sharing Beagle333.
Thread updated.

[MarkP]

I designed the following for my XP100R, Rem M SEVEN KS's, & Rem 673 in 350 Rem Mag
36-250B
36-270B
36-280B - submitted CAD file based off of 358009 with Accurate's req'd metplat dia.

Brass mold with a soft point cavity for 250B & 270B see attached dwg's.


959159591695917





and
42-310B
42-400B
For my .416 wildcat (416 BAC ..... Bolt Action Cast) based off of a 300 WSM case.

2 cavity Brass Mold

95914

[PWS]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?184738-Design-or-suggest-a-boolit-for-338WinMag-sketch-of-throat-provided&highlight=design+worn+throat

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/34-230B-D.png

Tom set me up with a mold for my well used .338WM and it works great - as in any reasonable load will be sub 1.5moa and at least half of what I've tried are 1moa or less. Sure shortened time spent on looking for a good load!

[geargnasher]

Proper-fitting boolits usually do.

Gear

[warf73]

This one was disigned by someone else with a GC but was altered for my 480 ruger to this:
95921
95922
95923
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=48-385A-D.png

I'm getting way better accuracy than the Lee 400gr. mold, no leading(fit is king) so far. I'm messing with loads again since I added a red dot scope to my SRH.

[white eagle]

what I mean by tweeked is I would ask Tom wow I like this but could you make it a gas checked or could you move this groove or make the meplat bigger that sort of thing
I do recall making the first 480 Keith but thats all Toms design I also tweeked numerous 45 cal (.452) designs cause that is what I was interested in at the time
Warf I believe that I talked to you about that boolit cause mine is the same only with a gas check

[badgeredd]

36-207B, designed for my 357 Maximum lever gun (converted 336 Marlin) and my 35 r4emington therefore the dual crimp groove; 36-230F originally I modifies a Lyman 358315 for the nose profile for 35 caliber rifles, including 35 Whelen, my 35-60 wildcat and a H&R Handi Rifle in 357 Max and my 358 Norma Mag; 42-375C as a heavy end bullet for our 416 Russian Express wildcat rifles. I think Dutch4122 and I worked on one of the lighter designs too to fix a feeding problem we initially had with the 416 Russian Express.

Edd

[doubledown]

51-700D it was TL Boolit, but now I powder coat them. I load them in my 500 Jeffery.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=51-700D-D.png


48-400T for my 1895 Marlin in 470 Turnbull.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=48-400T-D.png

48-350B http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=48-350B-D.png

[doubledown]

I forgot one. 55-420M for my smoke pole. It hits like a truck!

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=55-420M-D.png

[MBTcustom]

Thanks a million fellers!
Thread updated!

White eagle.
If you moved a lube groove, then you know why a change was made. This is about helping people figure out what mold would be best for them, or at the very least to help them understand why a certain change was made.
Now if you had a hand in some of the designs on the Accurate websight, and know what the reasoning behind it was, would you PLEASE share with us? If you're afraid of plagiarism, I'll put Tom's name on the OP list, and reference your post as where the dad burned information is located.
Thank you.

[Jailer]

I've got a few of Tom's molds but only one that I've had him modify for me.

460-405M.
Large meplet and a shorter nose for feeding in my 1895 SBL.
When you squeeze the lever closed you can just feel it seating into the throat. It shoots great.

Took my first deer with a cast boolit this year with that gun and that boolit.

[MBTcustom]

Awesome Jailer, Thanks!

[tomme boy]

Wow! we got a heck of a list going! Are you going to put this back up as a sticky?

[jmort]

After I got my mold from Tom I posted that he was/is a "colossal stud." He got a kick out of that. If anyone deserves kudos, it is Tom/Accurate. Thanks goodsteel/Tim

[Nobade]

41-390-P is mine. Designed to fit the PTG 416 Taylor reamer Midway sells. Sized with a Lee off the shelf .410" die and patched with 9# onionskin paper, it has been a consistent sub MOA shooter out of my M70 Taylor rifle. I needed a long body and short nose, to fill the long throat on that reamer and still fit in the magazine of the M70.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=41-390P-D.png

-Nobade

[Marvin S]

32-170B it was kind of stolen from the Saeco taper mold with a GC added meant for the 32-40 but works well in 32spl also. When crimped in groove it engraves rifling about .010 to .015.
It is meant for Winchester rifles.

[helice]

What a thread!!
If anyone had any question as to whether folks here know what they are doing, this tread would be the cure.
Thanks Goodsteel and keep 'em coming.

[MBTcustom]

Alright fellers, that's 59 molds that we now have a rhyme and reason behind.

I would just like to encourage you agian, please if you know what the reasoning behind the design of a certain mold was, if you know who designed it, if you have any pertinent information, and if the mold has not been mentioned, please share your knowledge!
If you would like, I can put ???? in the place of the designers name.
This thread is about helping to get folks a better idea of what will work for them and possibly a point of contact to ask a question.
There are still lots of molds that are in Tom's catalog that I think "gosh, I really really want to try it, but I'm not going to gamble with $150" or I see a design and I know what the feller was thinking, but I just don't know if it worked out for him or if it was a colossal flop.
Like this one for instance:
http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=31-210N-D.png
That band on the nose is obviously supposed to give a light press to the nose of the boolit and supposedly align it in the chamber. Well, if the booliteer who designed it would just step up and tell us how it worked, we would know if it's worth giving it a whirl or letting it slide.
How about this one?
http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=38-340L-D.png
or this one:
http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-295P-D.png

Tom has roughly 1370 molds available to drool over. We only really know what's special about 1/3rd of them.

I want to send out a real big high five to all those who have contributed so far and helped me with this thread. You're all first rate booliteers. Your powder is dry and there is no dross in your alloy.

[TomAM]

Goodsteel, the ring on the bore ride is something that Walt (NEI) used to do. Many folks want their bore rides to contact the lands, but it's a very fine line between contact and an interference fit, preventing chambering. The ring offers contact to the point of engraving, without too much resistance.
A customer had me include the NEI type ring with that design, but people can, and have, ordered it placed on many other cataloged bore ride designs.

As for the catalog, you'd better count again. There are currently 1370 designs.

Thank you for doing this! I have avoided writing the intended application in the design notes unless my customer got back with me about the results. I know that leaves people guessing, but entering that info sounds like I am endorsing the boolit for that use when I haven't even tried it.

I'd like to add that if anyone has found their design to be a less than stellar idea, I'm happy to delete it from the catalog to save others from any heartache.

[Springfield]

The 36-140c and the 31-090r are tweaks of mine. I just had Tom increase the lube groove length and depth of other designs so that they would work better with Blackpowder. The 36 has worked very well. I haven't shot the 31 yet but the smaller lube grooved version shot very well, no reason the new version won't. I have a 32 Big Lube mould but the LEE mould block is just too large and it is almost impossible to keep it hot enough to get good fill-out. One size does not fit all. Here is the drawings and the real deal

9649396494

98351

[MBTcustom]

Goodsteel, the ring on the bore ride is something that Walt (NEI) used to do. Many folks want their bore rides to contact the lands, but it's a very fine line between contact and an interference fit, preventing chambering. The ring offers contact to the point of engraving, without too much resistance.
A customer had me include the NEI type ring with that design, but people can, and have, ordered it placed on many other cataloged bore ride designs.

As for the catalog, you'd better count again. There are currently 1370 designs.

Thank you for doing this! I have avoided writing the intended application in the design notes unless my customer got back with me about the results. I know that leaves people guessing, but entering that info sounds like I am endorsing the boolit for that use when I haven't even tried it.

I'd like to add that if anyone has found their design to be a less than stellar idea, I'm happy to delete it from the catalog to save others from any heartache.

1370? Where the heck did my math go wrong!
I just ran the numbers again and sho-nuff 6X25X9=1350 and change. I feel so insanely sheepish right now.

Tom. I just want to express my personal gratitude for your work ethic and business sense. I wish I could run my gunsmithing operation like you run your mold business, but I just don't know how.
Regardless, I want to offer you my personal thanks, and the thanks of so many on this forum. The things you make are a huge help to us, and your price is fair for the service you provide. Every one of us feels like we get a smokin deal considering the quality and the turnaround time.

Is there anything that you could add to our thread here? How about a list of best sellers? I know it takes time away from the lathe, but we really do value your input.
Thanks Tom.
I will be ordering a mold from you in the very near future (ok maybe two of em) and I will be looking to this thread for guidance (Yeah fellers, I admit it: I had ulterior motives LOL!)

[2wheelDuke]

This is one of the most interesting threads I've read this year.

I believe the 40-145c was designed by a member here for the .400 corbon, which is a .45acp necked to .40, hence the crimp groove on a swc .40 cal boolit.

I've borrowed one in brass, and they work great in a converted 1911.

[longbow]

I guess I'll add mine here:

- 31-120B: I designed this one whilst waiting endlessly for the Mihec 316410 or the NOE 314365 both of which seemed to take forever. In the end I decided to wait and got the Mihec 316410 (I wanted lighter but wanted an HP more). I have not purchased this mould from Accurate so can't say how it performs. Might still get one, one day.

- 43-165B: Didn't really design it but I asked Tom to scale down his 45-165C for my .44 mag Marlin. I like it. A lightweight plinker that does well for me. Shoots well, feeds well, cheap on powder and lead.

Longbow

[bones37]

I was the one who asked Tom to modify the 230L to the LL with a single loob groove. I just received the mold Friday in the mail, and I've only had a chance to cast up a few. As soon as I can I will post a picture.

bones37.

[geargnasher]

I was the one who asked Tom to modify the 230L to the LL with a single loob groove. I just received the mold Friday in the mail, and I've only had a chance to cast up a few. As soon as I can I will post a picture.

bones37.

Hi, Bones! Thanks for responding and for the PM, please keep in touch.

Gear

[John Boy]

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd220/Meadowmucker/Martini%20Schuetzen%20Rifle/IMGP1502.jpg

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/38-210R-D.png

9.5 x47R ... An obsolete stop ring bullet created in 1880 for Schuetzen matches using SS rifles. Bullet lasted for about 15 years. There are only 3 known Schuetzen rifles in the US in this caliber

[bones37]

Gear; Yes Sir, I will keep in touch. Here is a pic of the Accurate 45 230LL.96233

[rodwha]

I just ordered mine so it'll be a while before it's in my hands.

These are designed for my cap n ball pistols (ROA and Remington '58). I intend on reaming the chambers to .450-.452".

45-170C. I read of someone using a ~160 grn 45 ACP bullet in their cap n ball gun with good results, and it was mentioned how it was about the length of a ball. This is what I had Tom work on first. If it took no more powder capacity but had more bearing surface, I figured it ought to get close to the velocity but with more energy. What came out was much shorter than a ball, which got me curious about an increase in powder capacity. I must admit I'm reluctant to try a full house load in a repro, but I'm certain my ROA can handle that and some. I expect this to do well in my Pietta '58 with it's slow twist.

http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-170C-D.png

45-195C. Having seen how short the other was I wanted one that was the length of a ball so as not to use any powder capacity. I believe this would make a very nice medium game hunting bullet, and ought to outperform the Lee conicals of similar weight. With this bullet being the length of a ball I anticipate it doing well in my Pietta '58.

http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-195C-D.png

45-285C. This bullet was designed with hunting things that may want retribution if not put down quickly. Looking for a wounded hog can get hairy, as I'm sure a black bear would be too! So penetration is what I had in mind. The nice wide meplat ought to make a nice wound track. Considering the lengths of 270-280 grn bullets with a similar design I opted for 0.675" assuming with a slightly wider nose it would be of a similar weight, but with a little more powder capacity. I figure I ought to be able to get 25 grns of 3F behind this beast.

http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-285C-D.png

I've been eyeing the Pietta Remington '63 Pocket and Uberti Colt '62 Police, and considering a bullet design something like the 170C for them if/when I do.

[w30wcf]

goodsteel,
Great idea ..... starting this thread. So far I have purchased 9 molds from Accurate. Tom's work is first rate! :grin::grin::grin:

I needed a bullet for my 1892 Marlin .32 Long Colt rifle. Ammunition has not been produced since the 1970's and those cases used a hollow based bullet. So I decided to have a mold made to fit the as fired cases from my rifle. It works very well!
31-090A - .32 Long Colt - .91" case - inside lubed - option for the obsolete Ideal 299155 hollow base bullet
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=31-090A-D.png

I then decided to have a bullet made for the original .78 case. It also works very well.
31-090S - .32 Long Colt - .78" case - outside lubed - option for the obsolete Ideal 299153
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=31-090S-D.png

.30 W.C.F. original "Short Range" bullet - I had an interest in a mold to replicate the original Winchester bullet. Having a few original cartridges, I was able to pull a bullet and take some measurements.
31-115K
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=31-115K-D.png
To date I have only tested the bullet at 50 yards and the results have been very good. At 1,200 f.p.s. groups ran a bit under 1". History repeated!

32-180B - clone of the early ideal 319295 g.c. bullet for the .32-40 Hi Power
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=32-180B-D.png

36-160C Clone of the early .38 Special 2 lube groove bullet (Ideal 357250) except for the flat nose which I wanted for use in my .38/.357 levergun. Shoots great!
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-160C-D.png

43-220C Same as the famous 427098 .44-40 bullet except that a crimp groove has been added. Shoots very well.
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=43-220C-D.png

45-260B Upscaled version of the famous 427098 .44-40 bullet for use in my .45 Colt rifle. Shoots very well...al the way out to 300 meters....
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-260B-D.png

to be continued......
w30wcf

[MBTcustom]

Thread updated. Keep Em coming fellers! This is exactly what I was dreaming of. Every time I have visited Accurate molds I have wished that this thread existed.
Now it does.
Thank you for all your help!

[warf73]

Warf I believe that I talked to you about that boolit cause mine is the same only with a gas check

Yes sir yours was the check, mine was based off yours without the check.

[MBTcustom]

Come on fellers, don't quit on me now!

[hickfu]

I designed the:
46-350V
46-405V
46-430V
46-540V
All for my 45-70 Marlin Co-Pilot take down rifle...

I really liked the Beartooth bullets so I had him do a nose profile like BTB's and then added length to make what ever weight I wanted.... All nose profiles are the same, just the length is different


Doc

[kayak1]

I designed the:
46-350V
46-405V
46-430V
46-540V
All for my 45-70 Marlin Co-Pilot take down rifle...

I really liked the Beartooth bullets so I had him do a nose profile like BTB's and then added length to make what ever weight I wanted.... All nose profiles are the same, just the length is different


Doc

I have a 461405V it's a nice mold! Thanks for the design.

[gefiltephish]

I asked Tom for a clone of the Lee 356-120TC but with a larger lube groove and more like 125gr. He produced the 35-125C (http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=35-125C-D.png) for me. I ordered it in 5 cav alum. The larger lube groove didn't help with leading issues, but thankfully powder coating has. It actually drops at 128+ with my alloy and shoots great. I"m thinking I might like to get one with a smaller diameter, NO groove and bevel base for pc'ing. Intended for 9mm Luger. Also works in 38spl but poi is low, as expected. Way too big for Sig 238 (380).

I also requested a 160gr DE Wadcutter with a single lube groove in the center and he came up with the 36-160W (http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-160W-D.png) (I think that's the one!). However, I haven't ordered that mold (yet). Intended for 38spl.

I also have the 36-160H (http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-160H-D.png) which I like a lot. But I'm thinking that this was already in the catalog. For 38/357 but also works surprisingly well in my Ruger LC9!

[tomme boy]

Btt.......

[John in PA]

43-3199 is my modification of TexasSako's 43-310B. Both of us are trying to come close to the original heeled bullet for the 10.4MM (or 10.35mm) Italian Vetterli. My brass thickness and chamber dimensions would work best with a slightly larger heel. Bore dimensions also suggest a larger nose-ride diameter and larger forward driving bands. The original bullet was a bit longer overall, so I redesigned the nose. Finally, the original bullet had a small hollow base to enable expansion of the heel to bore diameter, so I had Tom do a nose pour mold and bore the heel through. I'll send it off to Erik at hollowpointmold.com for one of his bar conversion core pins to produce a conical hollow .190" diameter by .250" height. After the core is installed, that bottom band of the heel will be .070" (like 43-310B) and the overall bullet length will be increased to 1.025" by the nose redesign.

Here's my modded version
http://accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/43-3199-D.png


Here is TexasSako's 43-310B, which inspired mine
http://accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/43-310B-D.png

[white eagle]

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=46-420C-D.png,
I had Tom add this for the 45-70 its a real thumper
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=48-350K-D.png,
and this for the 48o rug

[geargnasher]

STICKY TIME.

Gear

[41mag]

I do however have one of the Accurate 45-280C 4C brass molds I purchased form another member here.

For me it was to have a somewhat medium weight plain based boolit for my 454 or a mid heavy for my 45 Colt. I poured these up using some blended alloy I use for some of my HP's which is about a 1.5/1.5/97 derived form the LG Iso cores.

As you can see it seems to fit the bill for the 13gr HS-6 load I use with it in my 7.5" Redhawk in 45 Colt. Accuracy out to 75'ish yards has been stellar as well.

I haven't given it a try in the 454 just yet, but I do not feel it will have any issues in it either.

[338RemUltraMag]

#42-440B

My design, for a long range 416 Rigby boolit that closely fits the throat of a CZ 550.

Excellent accuracy.

[TomAM]

A recent article in a handloading magazine praised a mold makers’ designs, for not “letting the inmates run the asylum”.

I had no idea what response I’d get when I started an online catalog of customers’ designs, but I have found out that the combined knowledge of the “inmates” here far exceeds anything that I ever could have learned in a lifetime.

Personally, I’m a handgunner who rarely dabbles in anything which doesn’t fit in a holster and shoot smokeless.

People from around the world have sent me original old catalog pages and photos of obsolete bullets for obsolete guns, sometimes requesting a modification here or there. Stuff that I never would have known even existed.

I want to thank everyone for generously sharing your insights. I do maintain a “proprietary” catalog which contains, on request, private designs, but it is very sparse. Virtually everyone is happy to share their design ideas, and share the results of their successes and failures.

On that note, I must make a correction of Geargnasher’s post. #45-265L has been wrongfully accused of being universally putrid. Gear’s design is actually #45-260G, which I’ll delete soon.
#45-265L is my personal design, and along with #43-240L, #41-210L and #36-140L, has a lever gun-friendly nose length, the small shoulder which I prefer, and 73% meplat. It’s almost impossible to catch Gear posting a mistake, but I just can’t let that one slide.

[MBTcustom]

You just made my day Tom.
Let's see, where's my calendar.....

[MBTcustom]

Tread updated. Sorry I got a little behind.
Anybody else? Please put in your 2 cents and tell about the projects you have done with Tom.

[btroj]

What? Gear made an error? Stop the presses.

I suppose that it would be hard to go against what Tom says, he is the keeper of the catalog after all.

[geargnasher]

Oops! Tom, my apologies for inadvertently slamming a good design, I corrected the number in my post, and thank you for removing my unsuccessful design from the catalog.

Btroj and I will be hounding you shortly about a slight redesign of the 31-185G.

Gear

[btroj]

If it weren't for unsuccessful designs then we wouldn't ever learn anything.

I have spent many hours looking at Toms catalog and see many designs that just defy reason. Some are just plan weird or ugly.

Gear, once Tom gets a design let me know, I will be interested to see what she looks like.

[hporter]

I didn't design it, but asked Tom to catalog something along the lines of a Lyman 313249. So he created the 31-090L for me.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=31-090L-D.png

It is a nice little boolit, and shot well from various .32 caliber revolvers that I have.

96890

[Jailer]

Btroj and I will be hounding you shortly about a slight redesign of the 31-185G.


I assume this is for your 308? I'm interested in what you come up with as well, I shoot more 30 cal than anything other than 45 ACP.

[btroj]

I assume this is for your 308? I'm interested in what you come up with as well, I shoot more 30 cal than anything other than 45 ACP.

That is close, it is a short 06 actually. That is exactly what the bullet will be designed for.

I once worked with Tom on a bullet for my 375 H&H, I decided it was better to go with a proven design. The one I got shoots very well. I leave the bullet design stuff to others.

[RobS]

Well......
1. 45-225B: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-225B-D.png - Doubles as a revolver/lever action design can be shot in a 45 auto
Design was better suited for revolver and lever action but was accurate in all three platforms. Nose length is short and be used in all 45 colt/acp revolvers.

2. 45-230X: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-230X-D.png - Doubles as a revolver/lever action design and is very accurate in revolvers and lever action. Can be used in all 45 colt/45 acp revolvers with it's nose length.

3. 45-235R: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-235R-D.png - My current revolver/lever action/45 acp design. This design has a nice nose profile and enough length for feeding in auto's while still maintaining good meplat diameter for hunting purpose if desired. Great plinker design for revolvers/rifles as well and accurate from all three platforms. My thoughts to find an all for one design that has nice accuracy and a blend of characteristics for hunting/plinking etc. Can be used in all 45 colt/45 acp revolvers with it's nose length.

4. 45-300B: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-300B-D.png - Nice secant design for Revolver/Rossi lever action - designed to fit Ruger SRH 454 Casull Cylinders and cycle through a Rossi 454 casull and Rossi 45 Colt lever action. Easily fits in a Ruger 45 Colt Large frame Revolver cylinder but cutting it close in the smaller frame Rugers.

5. 45-310-B: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-310B-D.png - My current revolver/Rossi lever action tangent design - a bit more accurate than the secant designs. Designed for Ruger SRH 454 Casull, Ruger 45 Colt Large frame Revolver and Rossi 454 Casull and 45 Colt lever actions.
**Note this design is cutting it close on my LSI Puma Rossi 454 Casull lever action in reference to cycling but has plenty of clearance in the Rossi Braztec 45 Colt.

6. 45-310D: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-310D-D.png - Designed to see if two smaller lube grooves were better than one larger one: there was no difference in accuracy/performance - secant nose profile and same accuracy as the 45-300B above

7. 45-340B: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-340B-D.png - Nice secant revolver/Rossi lever action design - very accurate from Ruger SRH 454 Casull and Ruger BH revolvers. Very good design for Rossi 454 Casull and 45 Colt lever actions.

8. 45-345A: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-345A-D.png - My current revolver/Rossi lever action design with a tangent nose profile. Not any notable difference in the Rossi lever action rifles over the 45-340B regards to accuracy. Possibly a bit better accuracy from the Ruger BH but no notable difference with the SRH 454 Casull. Great design accuracy wise in all platforms I use it for.
**Note this design is cutting it close on my LSI Puma Rossi 454 Casull lever action in reference to cycling but has plenty of clearance in the Rossi Braztec 45 Colt.

9. 46-375B: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=46-375B-D.png - Mid weight for Marlin 45-70 lever action - secant design nose profile similar to a Ranchdog design. Proven to be a good shooter for my Dad's Marlin SBL.

10. 46-375G: http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=46-375G-D.png - Another mid weight designed for Marlin 45-70 lever action - The gas check version of the 46-375B. secant design nose profile similar to the Ranchdog design. Also proven to be a good shooter from my Dad's Marlin SBL.

[MBTcustom]

Rob, can you expound on how well those designs worked out for you? Pluses? minuses? Love, hate or indifference?

[RobS]

sure, I'll edit

[MBTcustom]

Thanks, I'll put them in que. Folks are going to look at the list on the OP and follow to your post for more information. Not looking for a war and piece book here, just your impressions on the design good or bad.

[MBTcustom]

OK, thread updated.
Thanks for sharing Rob.
Look that list is getting pretty long fellers, if you see an issue, or if I made a mistake, please holler at me and I'll fix it.

[FrankG]

Tom helped me with a mold choice after I scratched out crude drawing of what I was after. We picked a design he had listed and upped it a few calibers to my desired weight and diameter . I think it was a 30 cal PB we altered to .325-215 for me 8mm-06 and it shoots great plus it works in my 8 mils too.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=32-215B-D.png

[FergusonTO35]

I was looking high and low for a good .32 Auto mold. I had a Ranch Dog which was excellent but it required short seating. I corresponded with Tom about what I needed, he took the RD design and lengthened the ogive and gave it a single standard lube groove. I got a four cavity and the mold and Boolits work great. The only strange thing is I have to pressure feed the lead directly into the sprue plate or it won't fill out. No big deal though. I shoot these seated to .945 in my Kel-Tec P32. Here it is, mold 31-077B:
96976
96977
96978

[detox]

The only strange thing is I have to pressure feed the lead directly into the sprue plate or it won't fill out.

This is caused by vent lines missing critical areas of bullet...usually in bullet band area. Tom is not equipped to cut thin and strait vent grooves like the excellant RCBS moulds have.

[white eagle]

Tom and I worked together to make this for my 358 win.
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-265B-D.png.

[Terrence Clarke]

I had Tom put the dd ring on the nose of about 6 or more 30 cal bullet designs,some rifles shot better, but only just,compared to the same design without the ring,regardless of speed or twist,hope this helps

[tomme boy]

Detox. A lot of the older molds did not have ANY vent lines. They worked just as well as molds of today.

[detox]

Detox. A lot of the older molds did not have ANY vent lines. They worked just as well as molds of today.

I wish i had a nickel for everytime i have heard that one. Maybe Tom, RCBS, Lyman need to stop cutting vent grooves.

[Czech_too]

I'd like to see someone own up to designing the 31-120K & the 31-140V and what the intended use(s) were. The two are on my short list, maybe after April 15th...

[Jailer]

I wish i had a nickel for everytime i have heard that one. Maybe Tom, RCBS, Lyman need to stop cutting vent grooves.

I wish I had a nickle for every time someone blamed poor casting technique on an improperly designed or cut mold. Bet I'd have more nickles.

[FrankG]

I had that problem with a dinky 32 mould and had to get it smoking hot before casting good and really had to keep on the go to keep it running !

[Ausglock]

35-168Z and the 35-150Z are mine.
They are for 357Sig in 1911 and 2011 IPSC guns here in Australia.

[2wheelDuke]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?165338-400-CorBon-amp-Fitting-a-1911-barrel&p=1847827&viewfull=1#post1847827

Post 16 is claiming that Mktacop here designed the 40-175c for the .400cor-bon.

This thread here is about the mold I borrowed to cast light .400 boolits.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?167795-More-rapidly-produced-Accurate-artwork!

[youngda9]

36-230D is my design. Made it so that it has the max meplat that feeds well in my stainless Hawkeye (.18") and set it up so that it has a good bore riding section and that the lube groove fits dead center on the top 2/3 of the brass (the only portion that I size) when the bullet meets the leade. The bottom two bands are therefore held on the sized portion of the neck to ensure the bullet starts off straight. I get 2200fps with 42gr of H4895 out of my 358 stainless Hawkeye with 1" 5 shot groups at 100 yards. I get the occasional flyer that opens up the group to 1.5" but I believe that is my poor technique. The rest of the rounds cluster nice. I can't wait to blast bambi with one...as soon as the deer will cooperate.

36-245S is a Saeco #352 clone and I also had him make. I couldn't get my hands on an original mold so I sent Tom measurements from some sample bullets that I got from another member of the forum (Thanks RugerFan). I then ordered a double mold that also has his 358009 flat pointed clone!

I just recalled that I also had him make the 43-260V. This was for my 629-4 that I've since sold. I still have the mold if anyone is interested in buying it off me. The mold was designed to be a .36" meplat hammer and fit about flush to the end of the cylander (VERY mean looking) and have a smooth transition to full caliber to get it through the gap and forcing cone as well as possible. I carried this bullet in a 696-0 for a while as my carry round. I miss both of those guns :(

[451whitworth]

51-320E is mine. Now I didn't make up drawings or anything, just emailed Tom if he could put the nose of 51-450C/D on the body of 50-325G. I had been shooting the 51-450C in my 1886 50-110 WCF and it slipped through the loading gate into the magazine tube perfectly. In my rifle blunt nose bullets like LBT LFN's will not make the bend from the loading gate into the mag tube. The nose of the 51-450C (I think the bullet was a Kansas Ed design?) is kinda close to the original Winchester nose shape. I wanted a 300 gr. version for 50-110 loads as the 450gr. was already perfect for 50-100 loads. Tom made the changes and it was in the catalog the same day I emailed and of course I immediately ordered one.

[Sharpeye]

50-725W designed for a BFR

[Grandpas50AE]

The 35-140s was my request; not originally designed by me, but added to his catalog at my request with small mods from the original I saw that intrigued me. It was for my .38 Super, and it performs very well. I intend to hunt whitetail deer with that boolit at some point, but several of my projects have been delayed in the past year due to other priorities.

[Janoosh]

Since we're giving credit where credit is due, (and not to hijack a thread) perhaps a senior member or someone in the know, will post molds designed by members passed such as Smoke em Joe or Oldfeller...

[MBTcustom]

Thread updated.
No, we are not done yet! There's more lots more!!!!!

Now, I would just like to thank everybody that actually saw fit to tell us something about how your mold worked instead of just throwing it on the table like a dead fish with no explanation. That's kind of the whole point of the thread ya know?

So, what have you designed, modified, changed, tweaked, stretched, lengthened, shortened, widened, etc etc etc????
Why did you do it, and how did it work?
What do you say?

[walltube]

32-220B. Inspired by the Ideal\Lyman 323471.

With Tom's guiding hand this boolit was designed for an Eddystone made P.14. Date stamp indicates >'16< as date of manufacture. While the exterior metal surfaces are in very good condition, the barrel innards put one to mind of a tortured moonscape. The throat is equally worn and ugly. Only a long boolit of sufficient diameter would fill the throat AND reach the far away rifleing. This Loverin type boolit met both demands.
Loverin designs seem to be the most forgiving when forced through such a well worn barrel. Loverins may also be sized to a smaller diameter with minimal distortion to the projectile's lands and loob grooves.

Accuracy was as one might expect with any well worn mil-surp, rather sad. No surprise there. 75 Yds. was the limit of anything considered a "group". Way oversize (my oversight, my fault) is the muzzle's last 2 inches. An obvious clue to an overzealous application of cleaning rod abuse. Have I given thought to the installation of a new, SAAMI specified chamber and barrel, with original contour? Yes indeedy! That's another story.

No load information, except to say Prvi Partisan and IVI headstamp brass is the real deal for British military bolt guns. In my humble opinion.

Hoped to not have been too much of a dead fish, :mrgreen:
Y.T.,
Wt.

[geargnasher]

Some clues about the 31-200N:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?234959-Accurate-200N

Oh, Tim, we have the XCB boolit, 31-190X. It's a dead fish until we shoot it......:bigsmyl2:

Gear

[MBTcustom]

Good to know buddy, and thank you for your honesty. It's very commendable!

[Sharpeye]

50-725W designed for a BFR

I will let you guys know how well it does when it shows up. Just got a MM 502 -700 today but I have found it does not seem to like being bottom fed.

[history@mts.net]

These 5 of mine are now in the catalogue:

31-165D
I designed it for hunting in Win. M94's. 70% meplat, driving band, crimp groove, no gas check, tumble lube (haven't ventured into PC yet, after my go-arounds with moly & Teflon 20+ years ago; I just use LLA), 5 gang mould (only because he doesn't make 6 gang moulds). Had a RD 6 gang, but when seated to the crimp groove, the leade was jamming into the boolits of both of my 94's.

Don't know how it will work; that will have to wait until I get it, cast some with it & then shoot them.

31-210H
I designed it for hunting in Lee Speed 303's. 70% meplat, bore-riding nose, driving band, crimp groove, gas check, tumble lube grooves, 5 gang mould. Had a NOE 5 gang, but I prefer TL grooves & wanted a larger meplat.

Don't know how it will work; that will have to wait until I get it, cast some with it & then shoot them.

37-280H
I designed it for hunting in Husqvarna M648 9.3x62. 70% meplat, bore-riding nose, driving band, crimp groove, gas check, tumble lube grooves, 5 gang mould. Had a MM 2 gang mould similar to this for my long magazine, long-throated .35 Whelen & liked it.

Don't know how it will work; that will have to wait until I get it, cast some with it & then shoot them.

37-355H
I designed this bullet as a short range, bush hunting, moose-stopper, for use in my Husqvarna M146 9.3x57 rifles. (A mite long in the nose & in the body for use in a 9.3x62, but fills the magazine (in a Model 146 anyway) & the neck of 9.3x57's. 70% meplat, bore-riding nose, driving band, crimp groove, gas check, tumble lube grooves, 5 gang mould. .921 B.C., .379 S.D. If we could name them, it would be known as Big Jack, after Union Pacific's Centennial DD40X locomotives.

Don't know how it'll work; that will have to wait until I get it, cast some with it & then shoot them.

46-550H
I designed it for hunting in my Parker-Hale Model 1100 African in .458 Winchester. 70% meplat, bore-riding nose, driving band, crimp groove, gas check, tumble lube grooves, 5 gang mould. Had a MM 2 gang mould similar to this & liked it, except that it was / is regular lube groove style & only has 2 cavities.
Don't know how it will work; that will have to wait until I get it, cast some with it & then shoot them.

[popper]

31-165C PCd, 18 gr 2400, no GC. Does < 2MOA @ 100 on a windy day - too windy to set up the Chrony. Actually these has slightly rounded GC shank culls. Now to put checks on them.

[kweidner]

41-200z. Made for my 357PD and coated boolits. Shoot the gun enough and you'll understand why the 200gr! Patiently waiting now for it to come in. Will update soon.

[NVScouter]

Excelent List!

I designed the 38-315E for the 375 H&H. Tom has it mistakenly listed as 38-55 on his site but I think thats my fault as I wrote a thread on it but never followed up with him.

It is an excellent long range heavy hitter in my CZ 550 Safari 375H&H. I've shot slightly over MOA to 400y and taken a deer and elk with it. The alloy is air cooled WW meant to hunt. Two members here have been sent boolits to try but I only got the inital results from one. This next season its going to get more carcases thats for sure.

Thread here:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?220767-My-375-H-amp-H-journey-success&highlight=accurate+375+NVScouter

[TomAM]

Thanks for pointing that out, Scouter! That nose is awfully long indeed for the 38-55.

[nanuk]

These 5 of mine are now in the catalogue:
...
37-355H
I designed this bullet as a short range, bush hunting, moose-stopper, for use in my Husqvarna M146 9.3x57 rifles. (A mite long in the nose & in the body for use in a 9.3x62, but fills the magazine (in a Model 146 anyway) & the neck of 9.3x57's. 70% meplat, bore-riding nose, driving band, crimp groove, gas check, tumble lube grooves, 5 gang mould. .921 B.C., .379 S.D. If we could name them, it would be known as Big Jack, after Union Pacific's Centennial DD40X locomotives.

Don't know how it'll work; that will have to wait until I get it, cast some with it & then shoot them.



Jim, I'd sure like to hear how this one works for you.... I still need to put together that 9.3x57 your sold me some time ago... this would indeed be moose medicine for bush hunting!
I would think a moose may not be able to stop this....

[nanuk]

... Just got a MM 502 -700 today but I have found it does not seem to like being bottom fed.

jokes about bottom feeders are jumping around in my head....:lol:

[kweidner]

41-200z. Made for my 357PD and coated boolits. Shoot the gun enough and you'll understand why the 200gr! Patiently waiting now for it to come in. Will update soon.

Turns out the 41-200z is a keeper. 25 yds and one ragged hole no lead with ht super coat. Drops from the mold like rain with no lube groove too. Now to cast up a couple thousand !

[Outpost75]

I cannot take credit for their design, but suggested to Tom that he introduce a modernized series of ogival wadcutters based on the 1929 Harold Croft design, produced pre-WW2 by Modern Bond. These are now in the catalog, the descriptive thread is:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?235787-Ogival-Wadcutters&highlight=ogival

31-114D .32 S&W Long with 2 grains Bullseye, 3.0 grains in .32 H&R Magnum and .32-20 Winchester
31-125D .30 cal. rifle small game and gallery with 4 grains of Bullseye
31-134D .32 S&W Long Rook Rifles with 6 grs. #2400, or as small game bullet for .303 British and 7.62x54R with 6 grains of Bullseye
31-155D .30 cal. subsonic small game / gallery with 6 grains of Bullseye in .30-30, .30-40, and .30-'06
35-122T heavy .380 ACP with 2.5 grains of Bullseye
36-155D .38 Colt Special clone with 3.5 grains of Bullseye
36-178D heavy .38 Special with 3.2 grains Bullseye, in Rugers can go up to 4.0 grains Bullseye (+P)
36-193D heavy .38 Special with 3 grains of Bullseye and .380-200 British with 2.5 grs. Unique
(not my design, but one of you out there had this done and I really like it!)
36-245D stable in 16" twist subsonic with 8 grains of Bullseye in .35 Whelen and .35/.30-30
43-225D for .44 Special and Russian with 4 grains of Bullseye
45-198T tumble-lube .45 Cowboy Special with 4 grains of Bullseye, 5.0 in Schofield and 7.0 in .45 Colt.
45-245D full charge 4.5 Bullseye in .45 Auto Rim and 7.0 grs. in .45 Colt Ruger with long cylinder
45-245O for .45 Colt SAA and clones having short cylinder, use 6.5 grains of Bullseye.

[geargnasher]

Good stuff. I think it's wonderful that designs such as these from the past can be re-created in a brand-new product.

Gear

[NVScouter]

Thanks for pointing that out, Scouter! That nose is awfully long indeed for the 38-55.

Well like my Dad always says "Comunication works both ways!"....sorry I never updated you on it. You sent me the mold and I went to casting! When I first looked at your catalog the descriptions were one of the first things I looked at.

[enfieldphile]

I cannot take credit for the design.

Tom has the 43-205J, a TC .44 flat base boolit in his catalog. I had Tom add a bevel base. He made a 5-cavity mold for me. The # is 43-205JB.

The reason I wanted this mold: for 20 years I have had a Seaco 420. It's a flat base 2-cavity mold. It's my go-to .44 Special and .44 Mag mold. The 2-cavity is slow. Tom's mold is an about ringer for the 420. I also am now sold on BB's for any handgun design that does not carry a GC.

I'm really impressed w/ the quality of Tom's product! :)

[badbob454]

37-095b ...re designed it for a makarov / thing i would do different make a moe narrow lube grove as it is where i would like to crimp right at the top of the groove ...
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=37-095B-D.png
37-100 j designed this one it is perfect feeds accurate perfect to crimp , would be happy with this for my macarov if this was all i could get , i believe the trunicated cone will give more damage than a round nose at makarov velocities
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=37-100J-D.png
and this one i just wanted a bevel base for my 35 whelen and 358 win rifles
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-250B-D.png
i hav had more designs revamped a little width or bevel base or something else but these are not posted anymore , tom does great work and from design to your door is very fast ,, love his molds , with my twist

[AKtinman]

I asked Tom to modify the 36-130X to remove the gas check and have a plain base. The result was the 36-130W. This was my first Accurate mold and it really didn’t occur to me that I could have had the design scaled to 140 or 150 grains. The mold casts great and I’ve got 38’s loaded up, but haven’t shot any yet. Hope it shoots somewhere near the sights in my old 38-44 HD.

Later, I asked Tom to scale the 36-130W up for the 44, and the result was the 43-240W, which casts right at 240gr from WW.
http://www.fototime.com/1A695272AAA9B7E/standard.jpg

Haven’t shot any of these, either, it’s been just durn cold here in Minnesota.

[Kansas Ed]

Tom and I worked together to come up with the 51-450C and 51-450D. I had asked him to duplicate the nose similar to (if I remember correctly) his 46-300 series, and give me both plain base and gas checked versions in the same mold. The intent of this bullet was for a Browning 1886 rechambered to 50-100-450. In retrospect, there were some issues feeding this bullet in the rifle due to the nose profile.

When converting an 1886 (originals I understand were mostly hand modified to take the large cartridge), there is quite a bit of work which has to go into the loading gate area, and magazine tube entrance. The rounded nose profile of these two bullets effectively lengthens the cartridge when trying to angle them into the loading gate. That is the first problem. The second problem arises when the carrier lifts the front of the cartridge and tries to lever it at an angle into the chamber. The rounded nose hits the top of the chamber at the same time the brass wedges against the lower lip of the chamber. Both of these conditions would not have existed if I had paid more attention to the original nose design which really is more similar to the 51-350S.


The luck of it was, before I sent the rifle off to John Madl for reconfiguration to the 50-100 caliber, I had the mold in hand, and had sent plenty of bullets for him to ensure feeding and chambering. So with a lot of work, he managed to make it do fine. After talking to John though, it became apparent that even in the originals, what one rifle would allow verses what another seemingly identical rifle would allow might be vastly different due to the hand worked nature of each rifle to accept the overly large cartridge. So just because my rifle had some feeding issues initially, doesn’t mean that they will exist in anyone else’s rifle.

Ed

[enfieldphile]

Tom & I worked together to create the 45-231E

Tom worked with me to design this one. it's a .45 for revolvers, a TC, BB, with a bevel on the bottom of the crimp groove. In ww it weighs 235 grains. I already loaded some in .45 Colt cases. I will also use it in .45AR and ACP cases w/ Moon clips.

The new 45-231E is inspired by 45-230E. Check out the mold in the link.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-231E-D.png

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/AccurateMold45revolverb_zps49d2f194.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/ultramag44/AccurateMold45revolvera_zps087f3236.jpg

[craig61a]

I wanted the Franken-boolit for my 95 Steyr, so I found a drawing and sent it Accurate with my dimensions, and the 33-235B was created. Shoots great in my Steyrs...

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?174788-8x56r-Steyr-Boolit&highlight=

[Sharpeye]

The 502-725W shoots great casts great and has been leaving the barrel at 1100 fps over Sr4759 bangs on both ends.

[stu1ritter]

I've always liked a large meplat and after ordering one for my .44 I decided to have them done in .358 in tumble lube so I am responsible for 36-155WT and 31-100X. I'm waiting for the 31-100X but here are the others loaded. Larger is the .44 which is 43-215W and the 38 Special is the 36-155WT. Pretty soon I'll add the .32 version and then I'll have trash can, juice can and milk can.
Stu

added. 32 S&W, 32H&R, 38SPC and 44Mag

http://tinyurl.com/gur4pat

[kayak1]

I designed the:
46-350V
46-405V
46-430V
46-540V
All for my 45-70 Marlin Co-Pilot take down rifle...

I really liked the Beartooth bullets so I had him do a nose profile like BTB's and then added length to make what ever weight I wanted.... All nose profiles are the same, just the length is different


Doc

Doc,
Will the 46-540V fit in my 1895SBL or will it be too long?
Thanks!

[AKtinman]

I finally got out to the range today and tried these out. The 36-130W shot low from the old Heavy Duty, but it was accurate. The 27-2 liked it also.

The 43-240W grouped into a large ragged hole at 20 yards from my 29-3 over 4.5 gr Bullseye in .44 Special brass.

I'm very pleased with both molds and the accuracy of the boolits.

Thank you for a great product, Tom!



I asked Tom to modify the 36-130X to remove the gas check and have a plain base. The result was the 36-130W. This was my first Accurate mold and it really didn’t occur to me that I could have had the design scaled to 140 or 150 grains. The mold casts great and I’ve got 38’s loaded up, but haven’t shot any yet. Hope it shoots somewhere near the sights in my old 38-44 HD.

Later, I asked Tom to scale the 36-130W up for the 44, and the result was the 43-240W, which casts right at 240gr from WW.
http://www.fototime.com/1A695272AAA9B7E/standard.jpg

Haven’t shot any of these, either, it’s been just durn cold here in Minnesota.

[popper]

31-145C drops 149.7, 0.313 with my alloy. For plain base 300BO and 30/30. No lube groove, smaller nose for coating and the base is NOT a GC but slightly rebated. Should get to 2k fps & good accuracy.

[devinp]

I designed the:
46-350V
46-405V
46-430V
46-540V
All for my 45-70 Marlin Co-Pilot take down rifle...

I really liked the Beartooth bullets so I had him do a nose profile like BTB's and then added length to make what ever weight I wanted.... All nose profiles are the same, just the length is different


Doc

I had Tom put a gas check on the 46-405V to make it 46-405VG and then I had him put together 46-525V and 46-525VG for me. I'm waiting for them in the mail right now and will try to post a pic w/ some information when I get the chance.

[Leatherhead Bullets]

Tom helped me design the 31-200Z.

Primarily designed for use with my 300 blackout. It does require a bit of mag modiication. Wanted a +/- 200 grn sub bullet that may do double duty in my '06. Didn't go long like others, because there is only so much room in the base of the mold for Erik O. to do a hollowpoint mold modification in a Magma block :-)Haven't had a chance to load any in the '06 yet, but does shoot well in the 16" Sota Blackout loaded a bit short 2.04" and coated with Hi-tek.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=31-200Z-D.png

Nice thread BTW. I too like to see the whys and what-for's.

Chris

[jason f]

i kept trying to find a noe 312440 with no luck so i emailed tom and he put the 31-150l in there for me. liked the design so much i also got a 36-240l,45-340l,38-270h all designed for me by tom at the weights that i wanted. picture is of 30 cal,38 cal and 45 cal versions.

107308

they shoot great in my handi rifles. 30-30,357 max rechamber,375 winchester rebore and 460 s&w rechamber from 45 colt

[dancingbear41]

107311

Mine was 310-115C. I can't take all the credit though because it was a modification of another existing design. I wanted a flat nosed .30 Carbine bullet and he had 310-120B which had the profile I wanted but three very small grease grooves. I emailed Tom and asked if it could be made with two, deeper grooves in place of the three. Within 24 hours he had emailed me back and guided me to my mould in his catalogue. His service is second to none and the mould is fantastic and shoots brilliantly. I have since purchased a .45 mould but he already had listed what I wanted so I bought that one. I would heartily recommend Accurate Molds to anyone.

Simon.

[SquirrelHollow]

I designed:

43-425M
-Bore rider for .444 Marlin H&R Handi Rifle, allowing maximum case capacity. (Theoretically capable of achieving in excess of 2,200 fps in 22" barrels, seated to 2.920" COAL. Safely tested to 1,950 fps, before recoil started tearing the rifle apart.)
-Designed for maximum penetration on large game, without the nose shearing common to hard alloys.
-It works extremely well in 1:20" twist ballard rifled barrels, so long as it is sized for your chamber/throat and you can chamber it (no-go in a lever gun); and is stable down to at least 1,438 fps.
-At least two people are using this bullet as a 1 ounce 20 ga 'sabot slug'; and at least two others ordered the mold for black powder loads in custom rolling blocks.
-There were 4 versions of that bullet cut for me, including tests with engraving bands, a tapered nose, and different lube grooves. The current version in Tom's catalog is a great long-range bullet. But, if I were to do it again, I'd widen the meplat to at least .275" for game. I don't use hard alloys any more, and the meplat proved to be smaller than necessary, anyway.

43-390W -- "Boat Tail Wadcutter" :lol:
-Designed to be modified for hollow-pointing (hollow base, actually), after I crank out a thousand or so FB bullets.
-444 Marlin multi-purpose bullet designed only for a series of tests.
-Among other things, it was primarily designed to test the effect of shallow grooves on PC'd or Hi-Tek coated bullets; to test the effectiveness and feasibility of hollow-base bullets for deep-seating in .444 Marlin; and to test how well a "maximum length" coated bullet would work in a Micro-Groove barrel.
-Even having not cast a single bullet, if I were to do it again, I'd at least extend the shank to be long enough for a gas check. That shank isn't supposed to be there, but Tom had to step the diameter down due to an equipment limitation and my requirement for the wide end to be on the bottom of the mold (for hollow base conversion). I needed the length to remain the same, for testing, so I compromised on the step/shank.

[BPT]

Felix, John and I "designed" the 32-205b. All we did was talk about what we wanted it to be and decided on wanting either the 32-195b or the 32-215b. They are casting at 206.5 grains for me. Then we just said split the difference. We wanted something heavier than the RCBS 170 grain round flat nose, but no so heavy that we had to go dig up the boolits immediately after shooting them. It works well in the Yugo Mauser we have, although John hasn't put it on paper yet. But he does hit his steel targets (we also didn't want to go to heavy that it destroy's the targets quickly) more than he misses them so he is happy. Haven't gotten to test in anything else yet.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=32-205B-D.png

BPT

[RobS]

Another one I had a say in is the 45-230V for 45 ACP semi-auto. Also the 45-230T--however this one was just a thought through and never happened. None the less a wide meplat 45 Auto similar to the BD45 but with more draft to the meplat edges for "easier" feeding.

[Outpost75]

Outpost update on my Accurate designs:

135612
31-114D Use 2.5 grains of Bullseye in .32 S&W Long, 3.0 grains in .32 H&R Mag. and. 32-20, Nominal .314 diameter in wheelweights.

135613
31-125D Diameters reduced for. 30 cal. rifle "Cat Sneeze", shape optimized for. the .30 M1 carbine with 11 grs. #2400 and. 30-'06 SAAMI sporting chamber with 5 grs. of Bullseye.

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31-134D heavy bullet for .32 S&W Long rook rifles with 6 grs. #2400, will stabilize in 16" twist subsonic.

135615
31-155D Appleseed Trainer for. 30-'06 Springfield with 6 grains of Bullseye, also useable in 7.62x39, .30-30, .308 Win., 7.62x54R.

135616
36-155D .38 "Colt Special" loosely based on Modern Bond bullet use 3.5 grains of Bullseye in the .38 Special. Good in 9mm revolvers with 3.2 grains of Bullseye.

135617
43-225D .44 Special loosely based on Modern Bond bullet, 1930s. Use 5 grains of Bullseye.

135618
45-245D for .45 Auto Rim, ACP revolvers, Colt New Service, S&W. 45 Hand Ejector with 4.2-4.5 grains Bullseye. NOSE INTERFERES in rifling of M1911 PISTOL!

135619
43-200Q .44-40 with tight neck chamber and large groove diameter, size the enlarged nose to fit throat.
Very accurate cast 1:30 tin/lead with 6.5 grains of Bullseye (1142 fps in 20" barrel) in Winchester '73 or Colts (897 fps in 5-1/2" revolver).

Max. 7.2 grains of Bullseye for Winchester 1892, Marlin 1894 (1276 fps. in 20" barrel) and Ruger Vaquero (970 fps in 5-1/2").

135620
43-230G doubl crimp groove, bevel based for multi-purpose applications, .44 Russian, .44 Special, .44-40, .44 Magnum. Very accurate with 7.2 grains of Bullseye in .44 Magnum in 1:30 tin/lead alloy 1200 fps. in 20" barrel, 955 fps in 5-1/2" Ruger.

[fredj338]

More of a modify than design, but the 40-195G is my addition. A little bigger meplate & shorter nose.
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=40-195G-D.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v703/fredj338/10mm-wnfp_zpsb4b8d6d7.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/fredj338/media/10mm-wnfp_zpsb4b8d6d7.jpg.html)

[cajun shooter]

Back in 2007 I was preparing to start shooting SASS cowboy shoots. I'm a 100% real BP shooter and finding bullets that held enough lube and were accurate was a tall job. The big lube molds that Dick Dastardly was selling were fine for close targets but terrible for long range as they tumble. The reason being the huge amount of lube at the base area of the bullet.
I wanted a bullet to shoot in the 44WCF cartridge. The Lyman 42798 that later became the present day 427098 was the original design when the 44wcf was released to the public in 1873. That bullet had square shoulders and deeper lube grooves than the present day Lyman bullet being made. The Lyman bullet was accurate but just would not hold the needed lube for BP.
Blammer had helped me with a design but it needed some tweaking. I took the basic design of the 427098 and made the lube groove shoulders sguare instead of round and deepened them by twice the volume. This gave the bullet the ability to hold enough lube for BP but still maintain it's accuracy.
It's been a huge success and has had other bullets designed from it for shooting BP in the 44wcf aka
44-40 cartridge. The proper loading is to crimp over the edge of the top band with a roll crimp. The catalog number for my bullet is the 43-210B.
Tom, was not known by very many people at that time, I could place an order on Monday and receive it that Friday. Ha!! Ha!!
Do a search and you will find a posting written by me telling the members of Cast Boolits about this new mold maker in Utah. The trend at that time was to go in with a Group Buy from Lee and wait up to a year for a mold that may or may not work. My last Lee GB mold had 6 cavities that were different. I started doing business with no one but Tom. I'm happy to see Tom doing so well these days. He is a true artist and deserves all of his accolades.
My close friend and fellow 44wcf shooter, John in Erie, Pa. known as 30wcf and 44wcf did a ton of testing with my bullet at ranges up to 300 yards with great results. He even posted a video showing one session on the Cast Boolit forum. Watch it. Take Care David aka Cajun Shooter aka Fairshake SASS 81802

[Hardcast416taylor]

I thought that since there were a growing number of paper patch shooters and an already large number of 8mm Mauser shooters, why not make a mould for the 8mm that is a PP? What we came up with is mould #32-200P on the Accurate catalog.Robert

[popper]

31-142C = 3R ogive FP PB slick side for 300BO.
31-145C. = 2R ogive FP PB slick side for 300BO but works great for light loads in 308, 30/30.
Easy 1700-1900 fps with near MOA @ 100.

[McFred]

I asked Tom to tweek 51-700B to have a radius for the meplat and a beveled plain base for use in a suppressed, sub-sonic, mag-fed .510WSM wildcat of mine. If he'd allow me to go longer than 1.375" OAL I'd consider a much heavier, longer nose profile, but I think 700gr will get the job done for now. I won't be able to try it for a long while but I'll update this post when I get a chance. At some point I might send it off for hollow-pointing depending on how effective it is on feral pig.

So this is mine now:
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=51-700C-D.png

Update:
Looks alright given it's the first time I've ever cast. 700gr from range scrap. I recycled a lot back to the pot, but ended up with about 55 projectiles.

http://s32.postimg.cc/bmchix1vp/700gr_WSM.jpg

*another update*
Found a good subsonic load. In a gun I smithed together, using a chamber reamer of my own design, shooting a projectile of my own design, cast by me from lead I reclaimed, I think ±1.1MOA at 120 yards is just fine.
6 on top starting with a cold clean bore, and 5 more on the bottom.
https://s4.postimg.cc/ytzzc7lhp/group.jpg

[Boolseye]

Tom modified the 38-235R into a 300 gr., plain based design. Behold! The first 379300D. http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=38-300D-D.png

[MBTcustom]

Thread updated with my latest contribution: the 31-160G AKA 30XCB HUNTER.

This bullet has proven to be a slam dunk in 30 caliber rifles of all kinds with all bore conditions. very easy to get accuracy with, and when used in slow twist barrels, speeds of 2500FPS have been easily obtained.

[jmort]

I did not design it but Tom did design it for me. I wanted a 200 grain .357 mag uber-bullet for my Blackhawk with TL micro-grooves. There is a conventional groove that was added at the same time.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/36-200RT-D.png

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-200RT-D.png
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-200RT-D.png
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-200R-D.png

[TomAM]

Tom and I worked together to come up with the 51-450C and 51-450D. In retrospect, there were some issues feeding this bullet in the rifle due to the nose profile.

Ed

I've shortened and sharpened the nose on this one, and it's now called #51-440D and DG.
Thanks for pointing out the problem.

[MBTcustom]

This has to be one of the most interesting and useful threads I ever started. Thank you to all who have given input. The list in the OP is becoming very impressive.

[BulletFactory]

40-160b 163 gr wdww bac/red mix 50/50 load 4.8 WST


Which one is yours? 40-160b

Why did you design/modify it, for which gun/purpose? XD Sub, and an M&P Pro 5"
I wanted my own bullet design.
The hollowpoints tend to be more stable, I figured it was because the cg was further to the rear. So, I had the rear lube groove cut skinny, and the front groove cut wide, forcing the cg rearward on a flat meplat round, increasing the stability.

How well did it work? It worked perfectly. I've seen meplat marks out a 100 yards, they seem to fly right.

What would you do different if you could? Gas check maybe, but I have no leading personally. Flat base. He's got one, the 40-160c

Post the link to your boolit and let us know! http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=40-160B-D.png

[TXGunNut]

Did I design that mould? Are you kidding!!!??? I couldn't design a mould for a decent pencil eraser but I'm beginning to recognize a good design, guess that's a good start.
We are indeed living in the best ever time to be a cast boolit afficianado. With the CAD/CAM technology and external ballistics technology available to us we have seen and will see some awesome boolit designs.

[TheCelt]

135814

.338 WM on left, 34-300D in .338-08 on right

34-300D, designed for a 1-10 twist Adams & Bennett .338-08 barrel on a Savage 110 LA.

305gr cast with straight COWW, Hornady GC and PC

Sized .339, powder coated with Teflon powder, resized to .340. Case necked sized for a neck ID of.339 with custom build Lee Collet neck sizer.

32gr IMR 3031 and a CCI Mag primer yields an avg of 1860 fps and , 1moa @ 100 yds

Designed to thin the large hog population.

[MBTcustom]

135814

.338 WM on left, 34-300D in .338-08 on right

34-300D, designed for a 1-10 twist Adams & Bennett .338-08 barrel on a Savage 110 LA.

305gr cast with straight COWW, Hornady GC and PC

Sized .339, powder coated with Teflon powder, resized to .340. Case necked sized for a neck ID of.339 with custom build Lee Collet neck sizer.

32gr IMR 3031 and a CCI Mag primer yields an avg of 1860 fps and , 1moa @ 100 yds

Designed to thin the large hog population.

It's a giant 300BLK!!!!
Well done!!!!
:awesome:

[TheCelt]

Thanks Tim, I hadn't thought of it like that but danged if you ain't right!!! It does look like a scaled up 300BLK!!!!

[MBTcustom]

Thanks Tim, I hadn't thought of it like that but danged if you ain't right!!! It does look like a scaled up 300BLK!!!!
AR-10 time baby! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
You could do like Croc Dundee: "That's not a BLK mate! This is a BLK!!!)

[NLS1]

Great thread, and the customer service from AM is obviously awesome. Tom I will be reaching out to ya soon for a couple things coming along.

Dan

[oldblinddog]

31-180Q which is a Ranch Dog type nose with the XCB lube grooves for .308 Win. Don't have it yet but it is in the catalog.

[chboats]

31-195B It was designed for a worn throat of an Argentine Mauser.

Carl

[LynC2]

I can't say I designed this one anymore than the two .357 bullets that I had him modify for gas checks, but I had Tom add a modified version of one of Dan T's mini-groove .375 bullets(38-295D). I am going to try in my new Win. 1885 38-55 rifle when it arrives.(Yes, I am chomping at the bit until it arrives.) Tom's version has a small flat on the nose which won't help the long range B.C. of course, but at silhouette distances I doubt it will make a lot of difference. It shouldn't have any issue stabilizing in a 1x16" twist, or at least I hope. The neat part is that Tom can change the band diameters to whatever one requires.

148703

[John Boy]

even if you had nothing to do with it, if you know what it's intended purpose was go ahead and tell us so that everybody can know.
The Accurate 38-320E - Don't Know Who Had the Mold Cloned
It is the clone of one of the rarest Ideal molds not for sale, the 375166, 320gr bullet for 38-55 and 38-72 (1:12 twist) blackpowder reloads.

Don Miller did an excellent article for the Spring 2007 issue of the Black Powder Cartridge news entitled … A New Twist Rule Applied to Black Powder Rifles. In his very extensive calculation, he determined that the Ideal 375166 bullet will have the best ballistics characteristics in a BPCR with a 1:18 twist. In a 1:18 bore, the bullet calculates to 17.65 ratio. It is my 'go to' fix cartridge reloads and is accurate to 500m on the rams
http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/38-320E-D.png

[GWM]

#36-158SG (http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-158SG-D.png)

I did not design this one in any way, but I would have if it did not already exist. I was looking for the perfect fit long range accuracy boolit for my 8-3/8" S&W 686 and came up with the same dimensions more or less so I ordered this silhouette-style design in a 4-cav aluminium mold for it.

I'm still working on loads, currently getting around 2.7" for six shots at 55 yards iron sights but expecting to get better.


149559

[JWNathan]

I didn't really design it as I believe Catshooter came up with this one. It's just Accurates 45-255K with the front driving band an the crimp groove removed. Man I'm really digging this boolit in 45 Colt and I have some ACP loaded up that I need to head out and try.
-Jesse
149536

[Jeff Michel]

31-095L. Not mine, but Tom did the wizardry. I wanted a type III wadcutter for my stable of .32's. The only guidance I offered was, "Can you make a 358432 only small?" It shoots a treat in every .32 I have tried.
Jeff


http://www.accuratemolds.com/lib/timthumb.php?src=/img/bullets/catalogue/31-095L.png&w=114&h=0&zc=0

[Echale3]

31-180F was made to match up the specs of the throat of my 1903-A3--it's basically the same as the 31-170BG but with a 0.24" meplat. I gave Tom the measurements of the pound cast and told him what meplat diameter I wanted. I told him that I liked the overall design of the 31-170BG, but I wanted it set up for the throat on my rifle. When he revised the ogive to give me the meplat I wanted, the measurements at the various lengths from the bullet base came out just right.

I ordered the mold last night, so I don't have any load data or performance data on it yet, but rest assured, that will come soon enough...

~

[Outpost75]

Thought it would be helpful for some people to see the subsonic gallery 31-155D for .30-30, .30-40, 7.62x54 and .30-06 together with the similar 35-245D for the .35 Whelen and .35/.30-30:

166784166785

[Spector]

45-230Z. Specified RF, 230 grain boolit weight with WW+2%, no lube or crimp groves for PC, boolit diameter .252'', meplate diameter 0.31'', 3 cavity aluminum. It is dropping at 236 grains using WW+2%+slight bit of hard mystery alloy. Going to cast some in 20:1+PB AL GC. Feeds fine in XDs 3.2'' bbl. XDm compact 3.8'' bbl and Glock 41. Considering having it hollow pointed. It's a handful run at +/- 900 fps in XDs using HS-6.

Mike

[Chris C]

Hey, I'm finally a member of the group here. Designed a bullet a month or so ago and had Tom at Accurate make it for me. Arrived yesterday and the mold is beautiful. (of course) "My" mold number is 38-270C.

[Friar_Tuck]

didn't design one, but am having Tom make me a 32-175M without the lube groove, and with a plain base for powder coated boolits in the 8mm mauser!
166951

[Echale3]

Here's the second bullet I designed and had Accurate Molds make, the 460-435H, made to fit my Uberti 1885 High Wall in 45-70, loaded with BP.

I didn't put a crimp groove in so that anybody else who might want to use it but had a different amount of leade could. There's lots of lube carried on this bullet and the front and rear diving bands are nice and stout. Also, I decided on a 0.01" step making this one a bore-rider nose so any sizing that's done won't affect the seating distance like it could if a mold where the as-cast diameter on a non-stepped bullet could if the mold varies a lot in temperature while casting.

Since I plan on using this as a hunting bullet out to a couple hundred yards, I put a nice wide meplat on it so it'd hit game like a freight train.

I have a ~500 grain bullet of similar design waiting in the wings, but I want to play with this design first before I decide whether to pull the trigger on it.

My mold arrived over the weekend, which was a lot quicker than the estimated 4 week turnaround time currently posted on the Accurate Molds website, and, of course, it's beautifully machined.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/46-435H-D.png

[maglvr]

A few years back I designed the 36-170T from a previous design I had seen on the site, Tom made it and it was awesome as always, Since that time I have been thinking of things I wish I had done with that mold, last week I sold the original to a friend and redesigned the 36-170T into the new 36-170D, which has a .28 meplat instead of the original .27, and I added double, standard crimp grooves, for loading 357 mag loads in 38 spl brass. Can't wait to get it!
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[Rug480]

I had a 440gr pb I designed on Mountainmolds, made a few tweaks turning it to a WLN gc 435gr which I presented to Tom who made some final touches (much appreciated) and added to the catalog. I also made a 325gr trailboss/unique "plinker"

I am really pleased with the quality, a 3 cavity aluminum mold with 2x 325gr and 1x 435gr

[RobS]

I had this one drawn up and put into catalog.
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=40-190R-D.png

It is a great hard hitter for 10mm and I run it in a Rock Island 1911.

[glockfan]

mine is the 35-145M.based on the hornady 147XTP with some mods added. it drops right at .358 ,and every cavities displays the same weight,diameter, lenght ; it is like Tom got it 100% perfect on each cavities ; it shoot very,very flat and accurate inside 40 meters, which is the fartest i've shot it. it does 1-2 moa very easy at typical USPSA distance,and i can keep it on the edge of 1 moa at 15yard if i really do my part with my G34 as well as with my G17.
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i love this mold,which is my first design.



i also designed the 40-180 Y...which is a zero 180 FP copycat.have yet to use it as i'm quite busy right now.

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[maglvr]

Got the 36-170D from Tom a few days ago, as always it is a masterpiece! And IMHO it is the ultimate boolet for my hunting conditions and the variety of 357's that I own. From S&W 38-44 HD's to carbines by Rossi and Marlin, and a few other beloved 357 revolvers somewhere in between. One of the awesome things about this design, is that it is exactly the same length from top crimp groove to base as the famed 358429, and weight is the same also (170gr with COWW), making 358429 loads interchangable, and we all know there is more load info on the 358429 available than there are teeth in a Osmond. Making recipes mighty easy to figure out for most powders made today as well as some that are no longer made. The 36-170D is a keeper and will be replacing all my other 38/357 molds, as I can't see a reason to use any others, when this one fills every niche I needed filled, and all that will pop up in the future. A note of thanks to Tom at Accurate Molds for the lightning fast turnaround time, and his usual awesome craftsmanship! And to whoever designed the 36-240B, that is the one that gave me the inspiration in the first place for my 36-170T.
Safe and Happy Shooting!!!
MagLvr

[Rug480]

Tom was nice enough to help me finish these two. 502gr 45-70 and 265gr for the 1895 and Rowland.

[Outpost75]

Here are some updates from me:

257089257090257091
These all for .32 ACP and .32 S&W Long with 3 grains of AutoComp

257092 for .380 ACP Original Ruger LCP Beretta 1934 and SIG P230 with 2.5 grains Bullseye

257093 for 9x19mm REVOLVER, S&W 940, Ruger SP101, etc. with 3.5 grains Bullseye

257095257096257097257098 for .38 S&W, .380-200 S&W Model 32, S&W Victory, Ruger India Model Service Six with 2.5 grains Bullseye

257099 for .38-40 and .40 S&W Revolver with 5 grains of Bullseye

257100257101257102
For 10mm REVOLVER

257103 Keith style for .44-40 revolver and also feeds in lever action cowboy rifles, use 6 grains of Bullseye in original Colt Frontier Six Shooter and Winchester 1873.

257104 for Colt New Service .455 Eley and .45 Auto Rim M1917 with 4 grains Bullseye

257105 for Colt New Service .45 Colt, and Colt SAA with 6.5 grains Bullseye

[Spector]

45-230Z. Wanted a PC design with decent meplat that would feed reliably in my Springfield xds, xdm, Glock 41 and fit my Ruger Bisley as well. I pretty much quit shooting shorty after Tom made it for me. It did feed well in my pistols. My shooting skills have deteriorated significantly so l cannot comment on the accuracy. I used plumbers lead with 2% tin and added a pb gas check to some, powder coated and then severely hollow pointed with a straight cone cavity. It reduced the weight to 207 grains. Then l filled some stick hot glue and others with a softer booger glue. I fired one of each into new phone books simply because phone books are tough on hollow points causing many failures. The one filled with hot glue stick expanded well, hot loaded out of my xds. The softer glue expanded to over an inch, but shed peddles. Shallow penetration with an impressive hole. That is all l can report. I hope to give up women soon and return to the less expensive and safer pastime of boolit casting and shooting.

[high standard 40]

I designed the 36-140HG. I wanted to closely replicate the profile of the Hornady XTP. I use this for IHMSA 100 yard matches on the half scale targets. My goal was a small meplat and no shoulder as with a SWC. My desire was long range accuracy, not performance on game animals. I wanted to use a light load because with a 357 mag, not much horsepower is needed to topple the half scale targets. I considered a lighter bullet weight but I decided that I could achieve better load consistency at lighter powder levels if the bullet were heavier. I felt 158 was too heavy so I opted for 140 grains as a compromise. Tom hit the weight exactly and this bullet has proved to be very accurate in my DW 15-2VH8 with light loads of Unique.

[Elkins45]

I adapted an existing design to make this one by lengthening the drive bands and adding 10 grains. I had mine cut with negative nose tolerance so it would definitely chamber in my short throated 300 Blackout.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/31-230S-D.png

[bmortell]

http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=43-250AT-D.png
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I modified this one from 240AT. I made it for my new model marlin 1894 44 mag. I was unhappy that most molds have a very short nose then the rest of the lead taking up powder space, or a lot of nose for something like filling a ruger cylinder. so I made test rounds and made this shape to give a bit of clearance on nose length and meplat width for feeding. seating depth in the case and weight are very similar to keith bullets so easy data and easy to get velocity. some say older models cant feed as long so I cant guarantee function in all guns. I got it to use PC'd or tumble lube as backup. it might be better if ordered with a gas check, cant say. but this is pretty much ideal shape and efficiency of mass distribution for a marlin that will feed it.

and great idea of a thread

[John Boy]

The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
Outpost, with all those Accurate molds - every Anti in the US has to know what's in your safes [smilie=1:

[Outpost75]

Outpost, with all those Accurate molds - every Anti in the US has to know what's in your safes [smilie=1:

I'm sure Big Brother has the name, rate and horsepower of everybody on this site or whoever ordered from Midway or Cabelas too and knows every gun you ever filled out a 4473 for.

[Ozark mike]

Any one designed one lately. I like to read about the why factor

[tomme boy]

36-180lg is my latest. It is made to chamber and feed in the 350 Legend with no problems. Seat to the top edge of the drive bearing and it will not have any problems chambering in any gun.

[15meter]

Mine is for the 416 Rigby, I sent a Speer 350 Grn. Hot-Cor #2477 for him to duplicate as close as possible. I was having problems with feeding a boolit from a different mold.

Other rifles may have fed it but a custom single square bridge Mauser would not feed worth beans.

I got tired of lathe turning the nose on the cast boolits with a form tool to get a profile that would feed properly.

The following mold is as close as he could duplicate the jacketed bullet in a G/C boolit.

It feeds great.

http://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/42-365S-D.png

And decidedly cheaper and more fun to shoot that full house elephant loads.

As an added benefit it also feeds well out of a Ruger chambered in 416 Rigby.

[Rug480]

Now that I have a couple 480's again I asked Tom to make this one for me but honestly there are already quite a few nice WFN in the catalog already so there was no need.

I was kind of going after what Garrett does with his 45-70 offering; long nose, meplat .1 less than bullet diameter - if I can get this 405gr going 1300fps without leaning too hard on my SBH I think that would be a great companion piece to my 1895.

Still waiting on the mold but I know it will be excellent as usual.

http://accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=48-405P

[Good Cheer]

.45 Colt single shot.
http://i.imgur.com/ZhpQPdn.jpg (https://imgur.com/ZhpQPdn)
I could love a .460S&W in a Winchester single shot. :p

[Mark in GA]

I have worked with Tom quite a few times such as:

For 9mm
35-146A

For 38/357
36-165M
36-165MG
36-165N
36-165NG

For 40/10mm
40-180A

For 44 Spl/44 Mag
43-255M
43-255MG
43-255N
43-255NG

For 45 Auto
45-230A

[murf205]

I am not going to take credit for "designing" a mold but after quite a few conversations with Tom, this is what he/I came up with.279065 It is for my 45 Colt S&W 25-5 4" and so far it is a toss up whether my gun "likes" it or not. Make no mistake, he did the designing, I just told him what I was wanting, I like big flat (Veral
Smith) type meplates and Tom worked his magic. It is a 45-253M. BTW, that's not a hollow point. The camera just caught it with that shadow.

[Good Cheer]

Considered asking him about a .41 gas checked design with a "hollow point" channel about .39 in diameter. Imagine a SWC with a very large nose and very large hollow point. Something approximating a "Webley Manstopper" in .41 caliber.

Instead though, right now I'm gonna see if I can make the old Lyman #41027 HBWC work loaded backwards. Tell you what though, that mold is such a pain to get to fill out well when casting that I'm tempted to have the grease grooves reduced in depth along with making the nose button into a gas check base. And maybe I could partially run the hollow base into a .406 or .408 diameter sizer so it could extent up into the chamber throats.

[Drydock]

51-630r - .50-70 Shiloh 1-22" twist