AndyTheCornbread
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I got this mold a few weeks back to cast bullets for my wife's 357 LCRx that she carries when she is mushroom picking here in MT. She rarely ever runs into problems with 2 or 4 legged critters up in the burns but just in case she packs that along.
Mold showed up almost exactly 3 weeks from ordering it which is what the Accurate site said was the turn around time.
I am not sure how they do it but I think Accurate cleans their molds before shipping them out because all I have ever needed to do to them to start casting is lube the sprue plate and go to it. This mold was no different.
Accurate's venting gives me better fillout than any other molds I have and I am a bit of a mold hoader so I have a bunch from custom ones on down to one or two super cheap Lee molds. They also drop more easily than any other molds I have so I can really crank through the production volume really quickly with a two cavity. The only other mold maker I can get close to producing bullets with this fast is NOE's molds but timing myself and keeping track of numbers produced Accurate is by far and away the leader for me.
I cast up a couple hundred of these using 50/50 and water dropping them. Sized a hundred or so to .359 while crimping on Hornady gas checks and lubing with MML+Soap. Loaded them over 15 grains of IMR-4227 and used CCI small rifle primers(I started using SR primers in 38 special and 357 during the shortages of the past few years and have good accuracy so I never stopped). Took out the chrono and verified that I am getting within 10fps of 1,000fps out of them ES wise and then gave it to my wife to test how well they shoot for her.
The LCRx is a five shot revolver with a 1.87" barrel. She tested from about 10 yards, maybe 15 and could put all five in a five inch paper plate as fast as she can pull the trigger and recover while standing, unrested. That's as accurate as she needs from such a tiny barrel so we haven't tested it past that.
As with all the other Accurate molds I have, this casts great bullets, drops quickly with no effort and isn't finicky to have great fill out with the alloy I use. Bullets shot great out of the intended gun. Very pleased with this mold.
If anyone wants I can probably find a camera and take pictures of the resulting bullets, as I don't think my wife has shot all of them up yet from that first casting session. I know she shot about 140 rounds of handgun ammo the other night with me but I am pretty sure she was shooting 45 Colt that night. I will have to go check to be sure but I am pretty sure I still have some to be able to take pictures of.
https://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/36-160DG-D.png
Mold showed up almost exactly 3 weeks from ordering it which is what the Accurate site said was the turn around time.
I am not sure how they do it but I think Accurate cleans their molds before shipping them out because all I have ever needed to do to them to start casting is lube the sprue plate and go to it. This mold was no different.
Accurate's venting gives me better fillout than any other molds I have and I am a bit of a mold hoader so I have a bunch from custom ones on down to one or two super cheap Lee molds. They also drop more easily than any other molds I have so I can really crank through the production volume really quickly with a two cavity. The only other mold maker I can get close to producing bullets with this fast is NOE's molds but timing myself and keeping track of numbers produced Accurate is by far and away the leader for me.
I cast up a couple hundred of these using 50/50 and water dropping them. Sized a hundred or so to .359 while crimping on Hornady gas checks and lubing with MML+Soap. Loaded them over 15 grains of IMR-4227 and used CCI small rifle primers(I started using SR primers in 38 special and 357 during the shortages of the past few years and have good accuracy so I never stopped). Took out the chrono and verified that I am getting within 10fps of 1,000fps out of them ES wise and then gave it to my wife to test how well they shoot for her.
The LCRx is a five shot revolver with a 1.87" barrel. She tested from about 10 yards, maybe 15 and could put all five in a five inch paper plate as fast as she can pull the trigger and recover while standing, unrested. That's as accurate as she needs from such a tiny barrel so we haven't tested it past that.
As with all the other Accurate molds I have, this casts great bullets, drops quickly with no effort and isn't finicky to have great fill out with the alloy I use. Bullets shot great out of the intended gun. Very pleased with this mold.
If anyone wants I can probably find a camera and take pictures of the resulting bullets, as I don't think my wife has shot all of them up yet from that first casting session. I know she shot about 140 rounds of handgun ammo the other night with me but I am pretty sure she was shooting 45 Colt that night. I will have to go check to be sure but I am pretty sure I still have some to be able to take pictures of.
https://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/36-160DG-D.png
