tazman
02-07-2015, 09:17 PM
A little over a week ago, I came across a Lee 6 cavity mold for a 145 grain tc. Apparently this mold came from a custom run Lee made at some point. Perhaps some of you have one.
It is a cut down version of the 401-175-tc that is in current production.
The nose has a slightly smaller meplat. The lube grove is a touch smaller and is still centered in the driving bands with both bands being the same width. It has a plain base as opposed to the bevel base on the 175.
The mold dropped boolits easily and I was getting good boolits from the third set through the mold. I sized and lubed them using my usual Lee push though and White Label X-Lox.
I loaded them up with medium loads of SR 4756 and HS6. I got to try them out yesterday.
Groups were excellent and feeding was flawless. No failures to feed or eject after over 50 rounds. Groups were about 3 inches at 10 yards offhand which is what I shoot with the larger boolit.
Now I have my lead saver/ practice round for the 40.:p:p:p
It is a cut down version of the 401-175-tc that is in current production.
The nose has a slightly smaller meplat. The lube grove is a touch smaller and is still centered in the driving bands with both bands being the same width. It has a plain base as opposed to the bevel base on the 175.
The mold dropped boolits easily and I was getting good boolits from the third set through the mold. I sized and lubed them using my usual Lee push though and White Label X-Lox.
I loaded them up with medium loads of SR 4756 and HS6. I got to try them out yesterday.
Groups were excellent and feeding was flawless. No failures to feed or eject after over 50 rounds. Groups were about 3 inches at 10 yards offhand which is what I shoot with the larger boolit.
Now I have my lead saver/ practice round for the 40.:p:p:p