Toss em or keep em?

[bilco]

So I think I've nearly mastered this new MiHec mould I recently got my hands on and every once in awhile I get bullets that pop out like the ones on the right with malformed HP cavities. I'd say I got roughly this and 50% more out of about 600 made today; a fairly small percentage of them.

They worth loading or should they be slated to rejoin the molten soup of future siblings in the pot?

For reference, the ones on the left have the well filled out and defined hollow point cavity.

http://imgur.com/IrGgeRd

http://imgur.com/BJxe9J1

[Taylor]

I'd shoot'em.

[Boolseye]

They all look good to me. Shoot 'em up.

[rancher1913]

the only thing I see is the one that's upside down looks like a crack on the base, the noses I have never worried about being perfect and those noses all look good enough for me to shoot.

[DerekP Houston]

Same here, I'd load em up for the range. If it was for SD/comp ammo then yeah I'd use the perfect ones and use the others for practice.

[500MAG]

If the base is good shoot'em

[plainsman456]

I see no problems with them,they sure do look shiny.

[JWFilips]

I like to use my culls to blow out cases for my guns! Don't care much for accuracy. Just get the cases fire formed

[fastdadio]

I shoot way uglier boolits than that and still have fun hitting stuff.

[imashooter2]

Melt them and pour good ones. All you lose is time.

[Chris C]

Melt them and pour good ones. All you lose is time.


I agree! I enjoy casting. I also enjoy loading near perfect bullets. I keep the goodn's and remelt the rejects. Just gives me more lead to do some more casting.:p

[tdoor4570]

If you don't like the way they look melt them down and do it over

[6622729]

Shoot them. I don't see anything that would suggest you need to melt these down.

[Shuz]

I'd shoot them as long as the bases are good. If you did a comparison test on a target, I bet the "poor" ones shoot every bit as good as the others!

[mold maker]

Those that say remelt are seeing something I don't. I blew up to 500% and saw nothing to cull them for.
Their boolits not diamonds.

[mdi]

I too, would shoot them. I can't see anything wrong with the bullets on the right. While I haven't tried casting hollow point bullets I've read here that it is a bit more difficult to learn good mold/pin temperatures to get good cavities. Also, this is a handgun bullet and there isn't enough difference it the "bad" bullets to affect accuracy.

[Walter Laich]

shot much worse without problems

load and shoot...repeat

[bilco]

I too, would shoot them. I can't see anything wrong with the bullets on the right. While I haven't tried casting hollow point bullets I've read here that it is a bit more difficult to learn good mold/pin temperatures to get good cavities. Also, this is a handgun bullet and there isn't enough difference it the "bad" bullets to affect accuracy.

Those that say remelt are seeing something I don't. I blew up to 500% and saw nothing to cull them for.
Their boolits not diamonds.

The ones on the right have bulbous deformed hollow point cavities that are inconsistent which I can only assume would lead to destabilization of the bullet after traveling a certain distance.

[bangerjim]

If the bases are sharp & flat and get grooves are sharp with no voids or inclusions, shoot 'em.

My standard for any new mold today is now brass from either NOE or MiHec

[Geezer in NH]

Pics of sides and bases with better light may help tell.

[bilco]

Pics of sides and bases with better light may help tell.
The bases are well defined, I threw out any with malformed bases and hollow point cavities

[claude]

Well, if you are unsatisfied with them, put'em back in the pot. Regardless of what we all might say, do not compromise your standards, that is a slippery slope none of us should go down. You, are the one to please, and if they leave a little niggle about being second best, redo them.

FWIW, As for me, I find that the harder I cull my bullets, the better I cast the next time around.

[luvtn]

Picky, picky are the ones saying remelt. I too enlarged greatly, and saw NOTHING I would cull for. I bet those that say remelt have shiny brass also. Take slow deep breaths, that is it, calm down and shoot those babies. IMO
luvtn

[725]

i'd toss them away at about 1400 fps.

[mold maker]

Well, I went back and looked at them in 500% on a 55" monitor again. Yes, there are some unidentified marks on the inside walls of the cavities. probably caused by too cool a pin. The weight imbalance will not affect its path.If those don't meet your standards, I'd advise you to give up casting and maybe even reloading/shooting.
The very best bought boolits will have worse damage from shipping if the quality was ever there in mfg.
Unless you're embarrassed to let someone else physically see them, send them to me for disposal.

[robg]

Bases are good see how they shoot.

[Shiloh]

Load and shoot them.

Shiloh

[Fishman]

Excellent work. Your culls look as good as my keepers.

[Geezer in NH]

Shoot them go and by the target results. Practice rounds are what I do with the not so pretty ones.