Bakebfr480
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An old Ideal #358242 125 hr. round nose that casts absolutely beautiful bullets!
My dad was a big fan of that 357443 and I got a whole lot of them in his stuff when we moved him and mom into assisted living a few years ago, I'm sure I have the mold in all his stuff too. I personally haven't found it as accurate genrally as the 358429 or even the Lee 158 grain SWC.,Two of my oldest mold are the 160 gr. button nose Lyman / Ideal 357443 and the 150 gr. Lyman 358477. I picked up both molds and a set of handles at a estate sale several years ago for $50, the old caster had left the last bullets he cast with those molds still in the cavities which now reside on my reloading bench shelf.
I have no clue when the molds were mfg. but the # 357443 first show up in the Ideal Handbook in 1939 and last appeared in the Lyman #41 manual in 1957 which is same time the # 358477 came on the scene.
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