I can't vouch for the others but I just received a mold from Dan at mountainmolds and it is a beauty! Prices are right for custom work and the turnaround time was fast!
I can't vouch for the others but I just received a mold from Dan at mountainmolds and it is a beauty! Prices are right for custom work and the turnaround time was fast!
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Buffalo Arms in Idaho has a very extensive mould list and has some one custom lathe boring moulds for them that are top notch quality.Arnie
Newbie to this site and to Boolit casting. Can anyone direct me to the best source for obtaining a mould for .223, 60 grn. or better? Also, what limitations should I be aware of relative to barrel twist?
Another mold maker to add to the list:
Mike's Bullet Molds LLC
www.mikesbulletmolds.com
Contact Mike at: mike@mikesbulletmolds.com
http://www.neihandtools.com/catalog/index.html has them in a 62 and 72 grain, both are gas check designs. I have not tried any NEI moulds myself, but have been eyeing the 62gr mold when/if my financial situation allows. Hopefully some of the other members have had some experience with these or other 22 moulds like you are looking for and will chime in.
P.S. Email Bernie@oldwestbulletmoulds.com, their site doesn't list moulds available, but I know he has at least one .224 bullet in the weights you are looking for because he sent me pictures of it when I was asking for a 22 Savage High Power mould. His molds are brass and are excellant, he's also a great place to find moulds for odd or obsolete cartridges.
Last edited by 0verkill; 09-07-2010 at 03:58 AM.
Here is an update for contact information for David Mos
1282 Polk 71
Mena, AR 71953
(479)216-6787
(479)394-1279
davidmosmoulds@yahoo.com
website coming soon
Welcome to the board Shelly, look forward to the website................Creeker
Acurate Molds out of Utah (Clickable Hot Link)
Thats a pretty mold. I was going to have them make a .40 mold for me, but the meplate that I wanted was too small. .100, he wont go under .18., oh well.
That's a tooling limitation and goes for most lathe bored custom molds. Mountain Molds has the same exact 0.18" minimum meplat limitation built into his online design program as well and he also lathe bores his molds.
It is my understanding that there is a way around the limitation, namely the use of custom spoon cutter to finish the nose out to a set shape. I've always thought that a ball end milling cutters could be used as the final stage boring tool on the lathe just chucked in center like one would do with a drill bit to finish molds off with a ball end nose instead of a flat meplat if so desired and just always use a ball end size just a little bit bigger than a flat meplat would be and calculate the depth of cut for a clean tangential junction between the nose curve or taper but I am not a machinist myself and that may not work for some reason that I am not aware of. I tried doing this myself with just a drill press on a junk Lee mold to test the theory and one cavity it worked great on and the other I got the ball cutter just a little bit off center and boogered it up; I think that was mainly a limitation of the crude equipment I was using though.
I am not a machinist or a draftsman, but wouldn't the problem be solved by using a nose pour design?
Here is a drawing of the boolet I would like to produce, I don't have all the numbers on it because I simply don't know how to do that. If anyone knows of a mold maker that can pull this off, I would appreciate it. If someone is bored, and knows how to fill in those missing dimensions, it would be greatly appreciated.
Contact 45 2.1 here on the forum (45 2.1 is the nickname).
I think he will help you out
how do you search for a member? I typed in 45 2.1 to the search box, and got 1100 results
In a gray toolbar at the top of each page you will see among other things "Members List". click that and you will get a place to look at all of the members. On the right side at the top of that page is a search feature.
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LBT has a new email address lbtisaccuracy@local.net
Does anyone know if Mr. Tom Ballard has a catalog? Thanks,Hank
http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/
I didn't see this one in any of this thread's former posts, unless it is a Lee Precision outfit covered under some other linkage...
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |