What LEE mold do you not use, but won't even consider parting with?

[maglvr]

Just for fun...
What LEE mold do you own and not use, but won't even consider parting with? I'll start off, mine is a 90354 358-150gr-SWC
Though I like heavier boolits for my 357's the ones this mold drops are just so dang perfect and cute, how could I ever live without it? :-) I just love the looks of the straight ogive, which is odd considering I absolutely hate truncated cone types.
Hey I never said it made any sense, it just is what it is :-) Besides, I am fairly certain I sleep better nights knowing I have it just because LOL.
Safe and happy shooting!
MagLvr

[Wally]

I have a Lee DC .41 Cal 240 grain SWC that I seldom use, but would never want to give up.

[jimkim]

A young man gave me a Lee 452-228-1R and a 4 cav Lyman 452374 with the nutcracker handles. They had been his grandfather's. I will never part with them, unless he decides, he wants them.

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[Cheeto303]

I have two LEE .410-240-SWC's, 1 single and 1 double cavity. I pull them out once a year and I will never part with them.

[WebMonkey]

lee 137gn 358 swc hollow point single cavity.

i've moved on to round flats but will keep the hp.
;)

[maglvr]

Interesting, 2 people picked the LEE .410-240-SWC, I had no idea this one was ever made, I bet the 41 mag loved that! I lost my love of the 41 a few years back and sold off all things related to it. The original magnum is my love, and always was my #1. But if I was still a 41 guy i'd be scouring the cracks looking for a LEE .410-240-SWC for sure! Sounds like a winner!

[swheeler]

C277-125-R and TL314-85-WC

[gavlan]

Lee soupcan , don't use it much anymore but soon as I get it out the door i'll need it, so it's a sleeping keeper for sure.

[Kraschenbirn]

Probably the 459-500-3R Postell. Our club range only goes out to 300M and it's around 90 miles to anyplace with more distance so I don't really have much need of a 'long-range' boolit for my .45-70s. But, as they say: 'It's paid for and don't eat nuthin'." so I'll hang onto it...may head back to New Mexico come fall and, if I do, I just might stop off at Raton for a day or two.

Bill

[Grmps]

.358 158GR SWC (HP) GC 90485 1 LEE
.429 240 GR SWC (HP) 90487 1 LEE
OK not a lee but I love the old .429 250gr HP 429421BW 1 LYMAN

I see no need for hollow pointed lead boolits, you can do major damage by just playing with the alloy. You can cast a boolit out of 2 alloys, a harder alloy for the driving bands and a softer alloy for the nose (this is a slow but effective proces)

[toallmy]

Lee 356-120 tc WITH regular lube groves , I have it just right for all my 9 mm's and my wife loves shooting them to .

[maglvr]

Great responses, so many LEE molds I had no clue ever existed.

[AnthonyB]

I still have several of the Lee group buy custom molds that have never been used. No plans to use them, as MP and NOE now offer most of those designs.
Tony

[Duster340]

An old 116 gr .429 Wadcutter. Cast great, sharp shouldered wadcutters. Played with some cat sneeze 44 mag and special loads. With good results but the POI change was significant. Considered stacking them for a duplex load someday. Just never got around to it.

Also, recently re-discovered an old 162 gr. 429 Wadcutter that I'm gonna dust off.

[GhostHawk]

Lee 2 cavity .358 158 gr tumble lubed round nose.

I have since moved on to Lee 6 cavity molds in smaller sizes. Have not used that one in at least 3 years. Still have a stash of some 150 cast and lubed boolits. But absolutely would not consider parting with it.

It shoots in my .357 Handi Rifle very well. Does equally well in my 9mm Carbine.

I have molds that crank boolits out faster, use less lead. But it still has many thousands left in it if they are ever needed.

I really like the .358 125 gr rnfp 6 cavity. But I have not shot it in my .357 to see just how well it does. I really need to get to the range more often.

[Taterhead]

My 401-175-TC 2 cavity was the my first mold, and the first bullets that I ever cast came from it. Great bullet profile for 10mm and 40 S&W, but the mold is cheap and flawed and I don't use it any more now that I have a few other 10mm molds from Accurate, NOE and LBT. But I won't part with it since it is what got this whole shebang started. It is sentimental to me.

[Walks]

429-240-SWC
A plain base design. Don't think the make anymore.

[Markopolo]

I too would have to vote for the 410-240 swc... mine is a double. I used to toy around with shooting this upside down out of a thick barreled smooth 410 using a stump wad.. never got much for accuracy, but still like the idea... haven't toyed around with it for a couple years though, but won't part with it.. it's a semi-prepper sort of thing.

[maglvr]

I too would have to vote for the 410-240 swc... mine is a double. I used to toy around with shooting this upside down out of a thick barreled smooth 410 using a stump wad.. never got much for accuracy, but still like the idea... haven't toyed around with it for a couple years though, but won't part with it.. it's a semi-prepper sort of thing.

Did you ever try it right side up with a fiber wad or short section of dowel glued on the base?

[Bookworm]

I also have one of the Lee 410-240-SWC moulds, mine is a single cavity.

I have never shot it at 41 Mag velocities, thinking at better for a sort of 41 Special type round. If I ever get a custom revolver built, it will be a 41 Special.

I rarely use the mould, but, as it's difficult to find, and it's the first mould I hand-ladled, I have no plans to get shed of it.

[Wally]

FWIW I have two rare Lee WC bullets molds---DC one is a .41 magnum 210 grain WC and the other a .45 Caliber 240 WC...also, a not so rare .44 Caliber 208 WC...all make fine cast bullets, but I do use them frequently....and I take extra good care of them.

[MT Gianni]

I won't say never as most of my lee molds get used or sent downriver. I do have a .358" 113 gr wadcutter that is single cavity. I keep wanting to see how 2 shoot in a 357 mag or max but never really get motivated to do so.

[KCcactus]

My first two Lee molds. The old 358-150 SWC with the huge meplat and the 429-208 WC. Both in 6 cavity. For a long time, they were all I used. I have more molds now, so they don't get much use. Dusted off the 358-150 when my son decided he wanted to deer hunt for the first time. We worked up a load for my Rossi 92 and he used it to get his first deer. The rifle and the mold aren't going anywhere, except eventually to my son.

[Texas by God]

I have a one cavity Lee 452-230 gr hp sans handles. I probably can't give it away so it's somewhere around here.......

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[RU shooter]

The one I'll keep probably forever is the fist mould I ever owned , it was given to me by a gracious member here when I first joined the cast boolits when I posted a question about reloading for my Finn m39 it's a single cavity 155-312 and I've shot thousands cast from that mould ! It's a keeper even though I don't shooot much these days with it .