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Thread: Toss em or keep em?

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    Toss em or keep em?

    So I think I've nearly mastered this new MiHec mould I recently got my hands on and every once in awhile I get bullets that pop out like the ones on the right with malformed HP cavities. I'd say I got roughly this and 50% more out of about 600 made today; a fairly small percentage of them.

    They worth loading or should they be slated to rejoin the molten soup of future siblings in the pot?

    For reference, the ones on the left have the well filled out and defined hollow point cavity.

    http://imgur.com/IrGgeRd

    http://imgur.com/BJxe9J1

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    I'd shoot'em.
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    They all look good to me. Shoot 'em up.

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    the only thing I see is the one that's upside down looks like a crack on the base, the noses I have never worried about being perfect and those noses all look good enough for me to shoot.

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    Same here, I'd load em up for the range. If it was for SD/comp ammo then yeah I'd use the perfect ones and use the others for practice.

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    If the base is good shoot'em
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    I see no problems with them,they sure do look shiny.

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    I like to use my culls to blow out cases for my guns! Don't care much for accuracy. Just get the cases fire formed
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    I shoot way uglier boolits than that and still have fun hitting stuff.

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    Melt them and pour good ones. All you lose is time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by imashooter2 View Post
    Melt them and pour good ones. All you lose is time.

    I agree! I enjoy casting. I also enjoy loading near perfect bullets. I keep the goodn's and remelt the rejects. Just gives me more lead to do some more casting.
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    If you don't like the way they look melt them down and do it over

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    Shoot them. I don't see anything that would suggest you need to melt these down.

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    I'd shoot them as long as the bases are good. If you did a comparison test on a target, I bet the "poor" ones shoot every bit as good as the others!
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    Those that say remelt are seeing something I don't. I blew up to 500% and saw nothing to cull them for.
    Their boolits not diamonds.
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    I too, would shoot them. I can't see anything wrong with the bullets on the right. While I haven't tried casting hollow point bullets I've read here that it is a bit more difficult to learn good mold/pin temperatures to get good cavities. Also, this is a handgun bullet and there isn't enough difference it the "bad" bullets to affect accuracy.
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    shot much worse without problems

    load and shoot...repeat
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    Quote Originally Posted by mdi View Post
    I too, would shoot them. I can't see anything wrong with the bullets on the right. While I haven't tried casting hollow point bullets I've read here that it is a bit more difficult to learn good mold/pin temperatures to get good cavities. Also, this is a handgun bullet and there isn't enough difference it the "bad" bullets to affect accuracy.
    Quote Originally Posted by mold maker View Post
    Those that say remelt are seeing something I don't. I blew up to 500% and saw nothing to cull them for.
    Their boolits not diamonds.
    The ones on the right have bulbous deformed hollow point cavities that are inconsistent which I can only assume would lead to destabilization of the bullet after traveling a certain distance.

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    If the bases are sharp & flat and get grooves are sharp with no voids or inclusions, shoot 'em.

    My standard for any new mold today is now brass from either NOE or MiHec

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    Pics of sides and bases with better light may help tell.

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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