Modified mold

[Okie73]

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Have any of you done this to a mold or come across this kind of modification before? It appears to be nicely done.
It looks like it should make a great plinker for my M1 carbine and 30/30.

[wmitty]

okie73

Can you tell what material was used to make the flat point?

[Catshooter]

I installed a flat for the nose in a Lyman 359 top punch for that very boolit.

Welcome to the site.


Cat

[GoodOlBoy]

If I had to venture a guess I would say that was probably aluminum used for the plug. Whoever did it didn't do a bad job, although I think somebody should go back CAREFULLY and work in the vent lines, but that is just my OCD talking. All in all I think it would work well, I would be curious what the weight and as cast dia would be.

GoodOlBoy

[Okie73]

okie73

Can you tell what material was used to make the flat point?

It's aluminum.

[Okie73]

GoodOlBoy

Once I found temp that the mold wanted to cast at it was dropping at .313-.3135 and 110 grains.
I was using 50/50 +2% tin.

[Nueces]

Handsome little feller...

[GoodOlBoy]

Yeah that would be a nice one. I would be real tempted to get that GC shank worked open to a straight FB, but that is just me!

GoodOlBoy

[Okie73]

I had that very thought yesterday as I was casting with it. I already have two carbine GC molds.

[GoodOlBoy]

Or since we are on the same wavelength ya could always send it to me for proper disposal :p

GoodOlBoy

[Thin Man]

Okie73 I hope that boolit will feed and cycle for you in your carbine. Other people have reported that their carbines are fussy about demanding a RN boolit in order to feed up. I have tried to get the Lyman 311316 and the Lee soup can (C309-113-F) to function in my carbines and neither will feed up. Oddly enough I have had feeding success with the Lyman 31133 which is a HP version of the 311008 (the original 32/20 boolit). The 31133 weighs in at 100 grains even. I cast it from COWW, air cooled. Fired at carbine velocities it hits with an explosive response. Of course as this is a HP design it is slow to produce any quantity of them. I have been considering trying the Lee C309-120-R in the carbine but haven't gotten there yet.

Thin Man

[Okie73]

Thin Man I've actually had very good luck with the Lee soup can in my commercial made carbine. I plan on using this little boolit for some gallery/small game loadings in a couple of milsurp rifles.

[websterz]

Your profile says you're in NE Oklahoma, what town? I was born and raised in Miami.

[Okie73]

Your profile says you're in NE Oklahoma, what town? I was born and raised in Miami.

Tulsa

[paul h]

Interesting! Don't ever recall having seen that done, but it was nicely done and I'm a big fan of meplats so can see the thinking behind the modification.

I've used a lathe to remove the gc shank of many molds, fairly straight forward. If one is cautious an appropriately sized reamer can be used in a drill press to do the same thing. And in 30 cal your in luck because a 5/16 reamer is fairly common and I used one to pb my lee soup can mold, so something to consider.

[Okie73]

Well gents the mold took a ride in the mill vice today. Hopefully I will get around to polishing out the machining marks tomorrow.