I also have three Lee 6 C molds and they all work fine. Not the quality of the 5 or 6 NOE molds I have but they do work fine.
I also have three Lee 6 C molds and they all work fine. Not the quality of the 5 or 6 NOE molds I have but they do work fine.
I mainly use Lee 6 cavity. If I want accuracy, like for a rifle, I use their 2 cavity. I think the 2 cavity molds allow my casting process more uniformity.
good molds, much better quality than the 2 cav lee molds. just wish they made 6 cav molds in a few more lee designs (Lee, are you listening?)
I'd love the see the TL .309 230 5r and the .309 113f in 6 cav design.
I have two 6-cavity Lee molds and three 2-cavity molds. They all drop some nice-looking bullets.
My only peeve is that regardless of the alloy I'm working with when casting 9mm or 45, the bullet weights are never within a grain or two of the stated grain-weight that the Lee mold was made to cast.
For example, the bullets cast from my 9mm six-cavity mold are always from 130 grains to 134 grains. The mold is a 125 grain round nose mold.
My Lee six-cavity 45 caliber 200 grain Truncated Nose mold drops bullets that average about five or six grains overweight.
All the bullets look great and shoot great but still, I'd love it if they dropped from the mold a bit closer to the stated grain weight that the mold was designed for.
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I have 6 cavity molds for every one of my calibers so I'll have a good quantity of practice bullets. I shoot on a budget and try to get the most for my money and the Lee mold is inexpensive and cast well enough. I have a few specialized 2 cavity molds as well. This leaves me with funds to purchase 2 cavity quality molds like the MP Molds, which I think cast better bullets
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Absolutely agree that a bottom pour pot is a must with the 6 cavity molds.
I have one in 45, 38/357, 40 and 2 in 9mm. The 401-175-TC has been my most used mold with over 80,000 bullets cast. I make about 1000 in 2 hours. I then PC them in about an hour and size them in another hour. 4 hours and $25 in lead for a month or two's worth of bullets. Pretty good. The challenge with the 452-230-TC is cooling the mold down a bit between casts and keeping enough lead in the pot. The challenge with the 356-120-TC is getting the mold up to operating temperature quick enough and not wasting 6-10 casts of wrinkled bullets to heat up the mold.
I have heard of the sprue plate bolt stripping threads out of the aluminum mold block, but no one who posted here mentioned this problem. I just bought a Lee 6-cav 452-200SWC this morning and want to treat it right when I get it.
So far, ALL I USE………9mm and 10mm.
They makes lots of boolits fast!
QC with Lee can be all over the place. I have great 6cav & a couple PITA ones.
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I have six of the six cavities that I cast pistol Bullets with. Also have several two cavity molds for stuff I don’t shoot as much. I really like the sprue handle on the six cavities. The ones I have are all pretty darn good. Running two at a time is too much like work for me. I use a 20 pound bottom pour pot. You can drop a lot of good Bullets in a hurry.
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 |