Geezerbiker
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I got as far as digging out my molds, cleaning out the casing furnace and casting a few bullets just to get the molds hot to burn out the oil.
Years ago I bought a bunch of Ideal molds from an estate. I sold a couple, traded others and I have 6 of those left and I haven't tried using all of them. I always thought that this round nose .358 bullet wouldn't be much use to me so I didn't get around to trying it until today. It was a much easier to get good bullets from than some of my other Lyman/Ideal molds but I only cast enough with it to get good samples for measuring and then I moved on to other molds.
Anyway the oldlady needed me so I shut down for now. But this one mold drops .362" bullets that weight 158g +/- .2g.
I was hoping to size these down for 9mm but that would be quite a stretch.
I have a lot more molds to get back to so more later...
Tony
Years ago I bought a bunch of Ideal molds from an estate. I sold a couple, traded others and I have 6 of those left and I haven't tried using all of them. I always thought that this round nose .358 bullet wouldn't be much use to me so I didn't get around to trying it until today. It was a much easier to get good bullets from than some of my other Lyman/Ideal molds but I only cast enough with it to get good samples for measuring and then I moved on to other molds.
Anyway the oldlady needed me so I shut down for now. But this one mold drops .362" bullets that weight 158g +/- .2g.
I was hoping to size these down for 9mm but that would be quite a stretch.
I have a lot more molds to get back to so more later...
Tony