I Love Moulds!
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Some people never do a thing about it.
Some like every new NOE or MP mould to come out. Some like the old Lyman stuff.
Personally I buy very few moulds. I tend to gravitate towards a single mould for a cartridge and stick with it. My father in law isn't satisfied if he doesn't take a 50 round box of a single cartridge to the range if it contains fewer than 3 different bullet designs.
If a guy has to have a vice I suppose this is a good one?
Some like every new NOE or MP mould to come out. Some like the old Lyman stuff.
Personally I buy very few moulds. I tend to gravitate towards a single mould for a cartridge and stick with it. My father in law isn't satisfied if he doesn't take a 50 round box of a single cartridge to the range if it contains fewer than 3 different bullet designs.
If a guy has to have a vice I suppose this is a good one?
KHornet
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It is a vice that I am happy to have. Would guess I probably have 75-80 molds on the conservative side. Keep thinking I should do the ebay thing on some of those that I have not cast in 15-20 years. Maybe next winter when it is to cold to cast in the garage. I get a good load, with a given bullet, and then think-----maybe if I just tweak it a little bit. Probably can blame it on senior moments.
smokeywolf
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I'm sure I have fewer than 20 moulds. Majority are old single cav. Ideal moulds. That will be rectified when I can expand my shop, casting and reloading room. Busy lately trying dispose of 30+ years of accumulated krap that I have no intention of taking with me in the move to "Free America".
I am however, thinking of adding this one in the more immediate future. http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/produc...cts_id=1339&osCsid=iguh95khhd9m6d1c3m21d00g62
I am however, thinking of adding this one in the more immediate future. http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/produc...cts_id=1339&osCsid=iguh95khhd9m6d1c3m21d00g62
smokeywolf
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Considering that many have multiple firearms chambered for the same cartridge, e.g., 45-70, and of course you need a bullet for hunting, a bullet for plinking, and a bullet for target shooting. And, as we all know, as one bullet performs well in one gun, it might not perform well in another. That means, you have 3 guns that shoot 45-70, then you might need 3 moulds for each gun? There's 9 different moulds in .460 dia.
Then, there are other very common cartridges that the same argument works for, 30-06, 308/7.62 x 51, 38/357
Don't forget those cartridges that are shot in both rifle and pistol, such as 44-40.
"But honey, that's why despite the fact that I already have these 60 moulds, I still need this other one."
Then, there are other very common cartridges that the same argument works for, 30-06, 308/7.62 x 51, 38/357
Don't forget those cartridges that are shot in both rifle and pistol, such as 44-40.
"But honey, that's why despite the fact that I already have these 60 moulds, I still need this other one."
smokeywolf
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Just remembered, I don't have a paper patch mould for 45-70.
yodogsandman
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Is it a problem when you buy molds for guns you don't even own, yet? What about sneaking them in the house? Ordering them so the delivery day coincides with one of your wife's work days? What about sizing dies and top punches, gotta have them, too, right?
Not a problem at all, it is called being charitable. You never know when a shooting buddy might need them, right?
Just last week I bought a 375 Win. Stopped by Khornets house and what does he give me? A bag of 50 unforced cases he had in case he ever bought a rifle for the cartridge.
Now, had he never purchased that brass he wouldn't have been able to be so kind and charitable. It was a moral obligation to be prepared for such an event and he came thru.
Just last week I bought a 375 Win. Stopped by Khornets house and what does he give me? A bag of 50 unforced cases he had in case he ever bought a rifle for the cartridge.
Now, had he never purchased that brass he wouldn't have been able to be so kind and charitable. It was a moral obligation to be prepared for such an event and he came thru.
yodogsandman
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Hey, I got a mold for that, too....still, no gun!
I doubt I own 30 moulds. I don't own safe queens, not rifles or moulds.
I'm not a collector, I'm a user.
I do have to admire the guys who know the various Lyman moulds inside and out. Those guys are the collectors and they certainly know their moulds.
I'm not a collector, I'm a user.
I do have to admire the guys who know the various Lyman moulds inside and out. Those guys are the collectors and they certainly know their moulds.
KHornet
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A friend of mine said he was having problems casting an old Lyman HP mold gc, 44 Cal, and asked I if I would try it and see what I could produce. It is a factory Lyman HP,and had a bit of surface rust. It was a 300 gr round nose , with a wide HP pin. Anyhow, got up this a.m. early to try my luck with it. First 20 or so were bad news, but I put it on burner of the kitchen stove, any heated it so hot the burner turned red, and then started getting some fairly good projectiles, that weighed right about 275 or so. It took awhile to develop timing, get to slight frosting, and learn that to get acceptable projectiles to my satisfaction needed to do it by pressure casting from a bottom pour. I have had a couple of HP molds that required pressure casting .
Probably ran close to 150, and kept 106 of them sized .431, Gator Checked, and lubed. Air cooled these, and they run close to 14 BH. Will be anxious to see what my friend thinks of them.
Probably ran close to 150, and kept 106 of them sized .431, Gator Checked, and lubed. Air cooled these, and they run close to 14 BH. Will be anxious to see what my friend thinks of them.