What happened to Rapine molds?

[Leadmelter]

I have a Rapine 44 Cal wadcutter mold I bought in the 80"s.
What happened to them? Retired?
Leadmelter
MI

[John Boy]

The Rapine Bullet Mould Mfg. Co., of East Greenville, PA has closed it's doors. After making countless bullet moulds for the shooting community Ellsworth Rapine has retired and is out of business

[onceabull]

Yes,my understanding is that he had tried marketing the bizness,for quite some time,and did not get an acceptable offer..the two Rapine moulds I had were a treat to use... Onceabull

[Reverend Al]

I have a Rapine mould for my .32-40 High Wall and it shoots better than any other boolit I've ever tried in both that rifle and my '94 Winchester SRC in .32-40. Plain based and about 165 grains.

[Larry Gibson]

Have 4 Rapine moulds. They are excellent. Hated to see Rapine close up shop. Many correct moulds for old obsolete cartridges at a reasonable price.

[runfiverun]

I remember their ad's in handloader magazine back in the 90's.

the one and only one I have seen in person I own, it is as easy to cast with as my walt melander molds are.
fill open shake close fill open shake close.

[Forrest r]

Uded to buy molds off of Mr. Raphine back in the 90's when I'd go to Pymatuning lake for weekends of camping/fishing. Still have 2 of his molds. A 358149 & the 430211.

The 358149 is a 150gr hb fn bullet and the 430211 is a 210gr hb fn bullet. He uses captive slave pins for his hb pins. A picture of the 430211 210gr hb fn mold stored with grease on it.
http://i.imgur.com/sublGb0.jpg

I don't cast with those hb molds as much as I used to. Raphine molds have always cast excellent quality bullets for me.

[jdfoxinc]

He told me he had the same problem Pat Marlin is having. Today's machinists are trained to +- .005. Molds and Pat's gas check dies need +-.0005 tolerances.

[Leadmelter]

My dad was a tool and die guy for 42 years at Cadillac. He used to call the guys who could not met specs "shoemakers".
So all you guys at car shows and you see those Caddies with the fins and such, that was my father who made the dies to make it work. Craftmanship is a lost art that is being revived. In my area, they are starting to do apprenticeships again because they can't find