I bought a 4 cavity Lyman 452460 recently, was doing a little cleaning up on it this morning and some detective work trying to find the burr or whatever was hanging up the bullet in one cavity. After I'd finished and was putting it away, I was pondering if I should sell some of the molds I have I never use when I saw a mold I'd completely forgotten I'd bought.
I got this mold at an estate sale last year along with a Lyman 20 pound casting pot and some other goodies, the mold is a double cavity Lee 312185 of the old style block, which I much prefer over the new style so much so that I won't even have one of the new style. I remember being quite pleased with this find as I have a single cavity of the same cut and use it in several rifles, a CZ 7.62x39, Marlin 30-30, Ruger 308, Lee-Enfield Mk4 NO.1 and an AR 300 Black Out. It's quite a versatile bullet and it shoots quite well but as a single cavity it just isn't quite up to the production I want, so when I saw the double cavity I nabbed it. Problem at this point is I'd completely forgotten I had it. I'd so completely forgotten about it that two weeks ago I bought the NOE SC-311-171-RF-13 4 cavity. To make matters worse I have a plastic ramen noodle bowl on my table full of the Lee 312185. I've no idea when I cast them nor which of the two molds I have I cast them with.
My wife says I get more like my Dad every day. He was a grumpy, ill tempered, arthritic, pack rat with a bad memory. It does not pain me that she says this. It pains me that every week something happens which reminds me of the truth of it. Like any man worth his salt, I have a tool for most any situation a fella could find himself in. The problem at this point is being able to recognize the situation for what it is and remembering where the tool is at.
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I found a new one from a member here
Originally Posted by smoked turkey
USAF RET 1971-95
