NEI 440 gr. GC no 346

[canuck4570]

just odered this mold fronm NEI the number of this mold is #346 its 440gr. GC with a huge meplat.... anyone of you have tried this molds..... or heard comments on it.... thank you.....

[Bullshop]

canuck4570
Yes we have had that one in our offerings for several years. You are right about the wide meplate. It does have a good smack factor. In straight ww it drops more like 470 gn. Ours drops fat enough to satisfy about any need accept some old trapdoors that cant deceid if they are 45 or 50 cal. It shoots very well from Marlins in both groove configurations. It has shown a couple feeding hiccups in new guide guns. By new I mean out of the box. My well worn old Boo feeds them so smoothly people drop the lever to see if it picked one up. Boo is a name we gave to my old frist year production rifle. All the first year Marlin rifles were serial numberd starting with a B prefix then the numbers 00 thus becoming a Boo.
I just recently got one of the new XLR Marlins in 45/70 and it feeds in the new gun without a hitch. That new gun sure does shoot good too. Never a jacket through it and it has shot several three shot groups at 100 yards at about an inch with plain base boolits and soft 20/1 and 30/1 alloy.
I had an RCBS mold for the 525gn boolit shortend by milling off the check part. In a 50/1 alloy it weighs about 480gn. I am shooting it with a duplex smokless load and it hangs arround two inch at 100 yards. Two inch may not sound good to some but I am pleased with it considering that soft 50/1 alloy has chronoed at an average of 1570 fps.
I best quit rambling and go make some boolits!
Goday! BIC/BS

[Beau Cassidy]

Scroll down a bit. It's close to the bottom on the left. Good looking bullet.

http://www.neihandtools.com/catalog.html

[Finn45]

I did my first cast boolit kill with this boolit; moose calf few years ago using soft expanding commercial cast around BHN7, 472 grains iirc. It's very good choice if you think that 500 grainers are a bit too heavy and 400 grainers are light. Meplat is not as big as it seems in the NEI-catalog, it's more rounded and therefore more feed reliable I believe. It makes clean and sharp holes to the paper targets though. NEI pic:

http://www.neihandtools.com/catalog/458-440-GC.jpg

In my opinion Cast Performance 460 grainer is from this mold; it look's exactly the same as my old bought boolits from the NEI-mold:

http://www.veracart.com/merchants/castperform/item_images/set_1/81/lg.jpg

It was very accurate boolit as well.


Edit: as, not ass...

[onceabull]

That is an impressive looking bullet,maybe try it should I want to use the 458 Winnie on something less than 1,000 Lbs. Have Lyman 462560 ready for the big stuff..:mrgreen: Onceabull [smilie=1: