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Joel Chavez
01-23-2021, 04:40 PM
Ok you casting fools I need your help IDing these cast pills. Not sure where they came from, but I found them today in my bin I was cleaning out. All are 30cal boolits. These are the only ones I found. Thanks gents.
#1 is .80” long, plain base and weighs 132gr. was HPed after casting.
#2 is .785” long, GC and weighs 119gr
#3 is .915” long, GC and weighs 171gr
#4 is 1.00” long, GC and weighs 167gr
*weights are with my alloy so they can slightly heavier or lighter. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210123/2a2e5d8b103d20f2b1f74680e73164b4.jpg
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green mountain boy
01-23-2021, 07:17 PM
your # 1 looks like one from a group buy on this site years ago. it was in a 6 hole lee mold and with my alloy was 147 grains, i never found it real accurate at all so i put it away. recently i got interested in powder coating and used this mold in my K_31 with very good results i am glad to say powder coating was just the ticket. i hope you have that mold.....try it powder coated.

green mountain boy
01-23-2021, 07:19 PM
by the way my mold was not hollow pointed.

Bazoo
01-23-2021, 07:21 PM
3 is a ranchdog offering.

Joel Chavez
01-23-2021, 07:46 PM
your # 1 looks like one from a group buy on this site years ago. it was in a 6 hole lee mold and with my alloy was 147 grains, i never found it real accurate at all so i put it away. recently i got interested in powder coating and used this mold in my K_31 with very good results i am glad to say powder coating was just the ticket. i hope you have that mold.....try it powder coated.

No, I don’t have any of the moulds. I can’t remember how I even came across these lol. I know I casted them cuz they were in my “casting bin” but have no idea regarding the moulds.

Joel Chavez
01-23-2021, 07:47 PM
3 is a ranchdog offering.

Would you happen to know which RD mould?

JM7.7x58
01-24-2021, 02:41 PM
276009
Would you happen to know which RD mould?

Bazoo
01-24-2021, 03:11 PM
Would you happen to know which RD mould?
Sorry I do not. Looks like JM does though.

Joel Chavez
01-24-2021, 04:10 PM
276009


One mystery solved. Thanks JM

Beerd
01-24-2021, 08:03 PM
#4 looks kind of like this one from NEI

bangerjim
01-24-2021, 10:23 PM
This is why when I buy pre-cast boolits from someone, I just melt them down and cast my own slugs for what I need! I never rely on someone else's castings


I have melted down probably 1,800+ pre-cast carp boolits and then made good quality castings with my own molds...........for my own guns.

Works for me.

Good luck on your venture into the unknown.

banger

samari46
01-25-2021, 01:59 AM
Last on looks like a shortened version of the old Saeco/Redding RG4 gas checked bullet that weighs about 190-200 grs when cast of wheel weights with 2% tin. Frank

Joel Chavez
01-25-2021, 02:53 AM
This is why when I buy pre-cast boolits from someone, I just melt them down and cast my own slugs for what I need! I never rely on someone else's castings


I have melted down probably 1,800+ pre-cast carp boolits and then made good quality castings with my own molds...........for my own guns.

Works for me.

Good luck on your venture into the unknown.

banger

Banger, I casted these but I don’t recall the moulds. It was probably more than 10yrs ago when I casted these. Thanks for your insight though.

bangerjim
01-25-2021, 01:01 PM
Banger, I casted these but I don’t recall the moulds. It was probably more than 10yrs ago when I casted these. Thanks for your insight though.

I know what you mean! I forget like that all the time. I try to mark my containers so I will know what I did years later!

Still...................."stuff" happens! [smilie=b:

Good luck.

banger