Recommend mold for 1st time caster 450 Bushmaster?

[mattri]

Just getting into casting, have been handloading for a few years.

Put together a 450 Bushmaster on a Savage platform with a 1:16 barrel for shooting heavy cast boolits. Would like to stick with 300/300+ flat nose Keith type boolits.

What would be a good mold to start with?

Thanks, Matt.

[lar45]

My 450 is a Ruger AR, so I haven't even tried a SWC bullet in it.
I have had some fairly good results with the MP 45 Ruger Only 320gn LFN style with plain base and powder coated.
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[mattri]

Looks good, thanks for the reply!

[murf205]

261142 Here is a 290 gr GC from NOE molds that I cast for a 460 S&W in a T/C Encore. It is, as you can see, powder coated and I run it above 2k fps with good accuracy. I am not sure how it will work in your rifle but it is a round flat boolit that would hit like a ton of bricks. It feeds good from the magazine of my sons Ruger American Ranch rifle.

[mattri]

Thanks for the suggestion, I've just read some of the wider meplat boolits don't feed well, that Noe will be one to keep in mind for sure.

[murf205]

Yep, the 300 gr Lee GC doesn't feed all that reliably because of that big fat meplat, at least in the Ruger magazine, that is.

[mattri]

Don't happen to have the part # on that do you?

[mattri]

https://noebulletmolds.com/site/shop/452-454/tl454-292-rf-bk5/tl454-290-rf-2-cavity-1gc-1pb-rd

How does this one look?

[murf205]

don't happen to have the part # on that do you?

sc454-290-rf