Lyman 358101 and like moulds...

[mattw]

Years ago, I was given a handful of cast wadcutters. They were very light and flat on each end. I had done some testing in 38 special and 357 with multiple projectiles for very short range defense. I am looking for the flat on both end mould, the 358101 is not flat on both ends. I am pretty sure that this is not the mould, but I am not sure what mould it really was. Seems to me that the bullets were in the 54 grain range as 3 in a 38 was about right.

The first bullets came from someone here, it may have been from a modified mould.

Anyone familiar with the mould I am looking for? If you have one, could I buy a handful of the bullets?

[onelight]

Accurate molds may have what you describe .
http://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=36-061W-D.png

[fcvan]

I make boolits like those, but it was a PITA. I was using a Lee C359 SWC HP mold, made back when they still did such things. I basically took a boolit, cut it down so I could put a gas check that aligned with one of the driving bands, which effectively made a cavity plug. I ended up with three plugs which would cast 25, 40, and 60 ish grain wadcutters.

I was playing with this back when factory 'multi ball' loads were sort of a thing. Anyway, I was loading 3 25s, with a 105 SWC on the top. I used .357 cases with very light BullsEye charges. I also used 2 40s and the 105. They performed about as well as pictures published in G&A and other gun magazines in the mid 1980s.

I haven't cast or had any of those in many years. I had a baggy of 25s left that were given to a friend. He had injured his wrist and was healing from surgery, so he couldn't tolerate recoil. An avid shooter, he just couldn't not put rounds down range. He shot the 25s in a 6" S&SW M27 which recoiled less that a Browning Buckmark.

I am considering purchasing a wadcutter mold for 38/357, but I think I might want it heavier than 148. More weight, full meplat, should be good for medium game. Every time I have such silly thoughts I recall I have a Lee 429-208 WC. Then I am reminded the Ruger SBH 44 is 'the wife's gun.' Then I revert to carrying a Ruger OM Vaquero in either 38-40 WCF/40 S&W Convertible or 45 Colt. So many ideas, so little time, and I'm retired!

[dale2242]

I have a H&G mold for that type of bullet.

[Alferd Packer]

The 358101 casts a 71 grain flat ended wadcutter with one lube groove .

[beagle]

The H & G was, I believe the first mould made to cast those. May have been clones since then. Dean Grenell wrote an article around them on duplex and triplex defense loads years ago for the .38 Special and .357 Magnum. Maybe someone still has it and will post./beagle