Lee 45-155 SWC

[KSCowboy]

Hello,

I have a double cavity Lee Mold 90413 for a 45 acp 155 grain SWC. I guess it is discontinued by Lee as they don't show it in their catalog.

I would like to get a six cavity mold for this. Will Lee make me such a thing? Would anyone be interested in a group buy for such a bullet? I'm ignorant about how the group buy thing works. I've read about it here so I think I understand it. But as this is a bullet that they have made in the past I don't know what can or can't be done

I really like these due to the relatively small amount of lead they use for everyday practice. Saving 45 to 75 grains per bullet over a 200 to 230 grain bullet adds up to a lot more bullets from the same pile of wheel weights.

Thanks for any help or advice. Heck, I would be interested in purchasing additional double cavity molds of this same bullet if nothing else so when I wear out the first one I have back up.

[45 2.1]

LEE used to make a six cavity in this mold. I found one after looking for 8 months on a dealers table, but I doubt that any are left now. LEE could make you one or a group buy could be started. The $100 setup fee would apply until you got 25 buyers though.

[Lloyd Smale]

Id be interested if you started a group buy.

[Ricochet]

I've looked for a mould for this bullet, without success. I sure do like six cavities!

[KSCowboy]

Well I'm willing to run a group buy for this 6 holer, but I need some guidance on how to.

Can somebody help get me started?

Thank you,
KSCowboy

[Denver]

Another 45 cal lightweight that Lee has is the 452-160RF. Only listed in the 2 holer mold tho.

[Johnch]

Run it and I will buy one .

I found my old 2 holer ran .4535 with a soft alloy and was most accurate at that dia.
At least in the loads I shot .
So make it big enough , can always size them down

Johnch

[Lloyd Smale]

look in the group buy section of this mold for advice in how to run a group buy.

[flinchnjerk]

I'd be in for two.

KS, I've forwarded your candidacy for sainthood to the Vatican. I believe that Lee discontinued this mold five or six years ago; I'd been searching the known universe for this mold for three or four years and had despaired of ever finding one; then blindly stumbled upon the last extant new six-banger (Lee # 90417). I've been treating this mold as if it were an eggshell, fearing that if I ham-fisted it to ruination I'd never be able to replace it, so I'm really hoping that your planned group buy gets off the ground (I'll second the .4535 dia.).
FYI, I did, after despairing of ever finding a 155-SWC, get the Lee .452-160-RF. While it may make a fine revolter boolit, it's a major headache in a 1911.

[Steel185]

dug up this very old thread, hoped now there would be more interest in this 155gr bullet.

I'd be in for 1 or 2, 6 cavities of this. I don't know if any of the original posters are still around. Maybe we can get this going again.

[JIMinPHX]

Does anybody have a picture of the boolit in question?

[flinchnjerk]

Still here, still in for at least two (maybe four; a couple of my fellow shooters love this boolit); still nursing the mould along, 19,000 boolits and a threaded insert for a handle attaching screw later. I'm eager enough that , if the number required for Lee to waive the set-up fee isn't reached, the fee be split between the number of moulds ordered (not the number of buyers... I don't feel that it would be fair for me to pay the same portion of the set-up fee for my two to four moulds as the caster who's only ordering one).
Jim, Mr. Technoignoramus here will attempt to enlist some help and get a picture posted within a few days.

[Denver]

I'd be interested in one of these. I've found this boolit at the local range while mining the berm and hoped to sometime find the shooter to see if I could get a few for a tryout, but haven't had any luck.

[Steel185]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=24295&highlight=%23062&page=2

Here is another thread i was passed talking over this simular topic, it seems 45 2.1 has/or had some drawings of designs. For me I'm not dead set on the 155, a 160, or 170 would be fine aswell, I want something significantly lighter than a 200, and in 4 or 6 cavities. Don't know about anyone else.

[94Doug]

I have a Saeco 4 cav in (I think) a 62 "B" series. It looks a lot like the one in the picture that compares three boolits. I'll weigh one, but I seem to recall it was in the 160 area....

Doug

[casterofboolits]

My Saeco four cavity #62 drops 160 grains with my alloy.

[94Doug]

Is yours the regular, or "B"?

Doug

[94Doug]

I weighed mine at 165 lubed.

d

[casterofboolits]

94Doug,

My Saeco four cavity mould is the 062-B, underneath that is stamped "63B" (possiable batch number?). The boolits are 160 grns lubed from my alloy.

My alloy is 50/50 RL and WW. My muffin pan ingots weigh approx 2.3 #. I put ten of these in my ten kilo RCBS pot and add a one pound ingot that is 90% lino and 10% tin.

[Steel185]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?p=963285#post963285

I started the above thread to see if we have the interest it looks like we have. I had to decide on a particular size, I figure 165gr target round would meet all the goals we have been discussing in this thread. see you there.

[Denver]

_Perhaps NOE or BRP would be willing to take this on as a small group buy of 15 or so molds.

[MtGun44]

I always called the 155 .45 ACP SWC the "thumbtack".

Bill

[harley45]

I'm goanna follow this thread and see if this happens as a mold other than Lee if so I'm in

[happy7]

This is now a group buy. Go to this link (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=92343)to see details and place your order.