View Full Version : Recommend mold for 1st time caster 450 Bushmaster?
mattri
04-24-2020, 09:11 AM
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
04-24-2020, 10:40 PM
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.
261001
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mattri
04-25-2020, 10:59 AM
Looks good, thanks for the reply!
murf205
04-26-2020, 06:53 PM
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
04-26-2020, 09:58 PM
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
04-26-2020, 10:04 PM
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
04-27-2020, 07:18 PM
Don't happen to have the part # on that do you?
mattri
04-28-2020, 02:43 PM
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
04-28-2020, 06:52 PM
don't happen to have the part # on that do you?
sc454-290-rf
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