Accurate 45-325N

AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Anyone shooting using bullets from this mold? If you are, what are shooting it out of and what has your experience been with it so far?

I would link to the bullet in their catalog but I can't find a user agreement for the site that says if posting links like that is OK or not and I don't want to make anybody unhappy with my first post. So, if there is a policy on that kind of thing be it a "yes we can", or a "no we can't" if you could point me with a link to it, I would appreciate it.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I don't think anyone here has an issue with it , there lots of NOE and Accurate links . Word of mouth is a powerful tool , I'm sure if it was a problem they would have a line in the header or imbedded in the online drawings .
 
Rick

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Lot's and lot's of bullet drawings and photos here from both NOE and Accurate. I doubt you'll find a link that says it's alright but nobody has complained about getting free advertising yet. :)

Welcome to the forum Andy. :)
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
Tom would have said stop it if he didn't like us linking to his place, come to think of it so would have Dan at MTn Molds and I'm sure Al would have too.
they all are members here.

anyway here is the bullet in question.
it reminds me of the LEE 255 with a gas check and an extra drive band added in.
the lube groove is a titch big for my tastes but it's a solid design.
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AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Thanks guys, I am planning on using this one in 45 Colt Ruger only bear loads in a Blackhawk and a Redhawk and 454 Casull in both some revolvers and a lever action.

I was going to use 300-MP as the first powder I am going to try with it. I have data from Handloader magazine for 300-MP and 45 Colt Ruger only loads and then I have other published data for the 454 Casull. If I can't get accuracy with 300-MP I was going to try 296 as it is cheaper locally than H-110...by a dollar :)

Alloy will probably be 50/50 with MML+Soap as the lube as that is what I use in pretty much everything cast other than super slow subsonic .223 and 30 Badger.

Accurate molds cost just a tad more than some of the other custom mold makers I have used but their mold have the best venting/resulting fillout and fastest easy drop rate for me. In the end even though I have a bunch of molds by various makers, it is the Accurate ones that I have the fastest rate of production of great bullets with. Other people's mileage may vary.

I was just wondering if anyone here had used bullets from this particular mold before and what their results were. Mostly just curious to see while I am waiting for it to show up. Their site says three weeks out for molds currently so it will be at least another two weeks before I can post a review of my experience with it. I had picked up this one from them a little while ago for my wife's 357 and it took about exactly three weeks to get it, so I think their estimate is pretty right on for turn around time.
https://www.accuratemolds.com/img/bullets/detail/36-160DG-D.png
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Did someone say "30 Badger"?

I'm gonna build one of those one day, somehow.
 
AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Ian said:
Did someone say "30 Badger"?

I'm gonna build one of those one day, somehow.
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MGM made the barrel for mine for my Encore pro hunter and then a gunsmith did the chamber and extractor for me. I have only ever loaded subsonic rounds in mine. I use it for head shooting grouse and snow shoe hare.
 
AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Mold showed up yesterday, quite a pleasant surprise to get it early. I cast up about 130 or so bullets, gas checked, sized and lubed them. As with all Accurate molds this one was, take out of the package, put on handles, lube the sprue plate bolt and start casting. Great bullets, every time. I will start on the load development with it tonight.
 
AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Worked up to 1,200fps in 45 Colt in a 5.5" Blackhawk with 300-MP. Got my best ES down at 1,180 so I will start looking for an accuracy load right around that area. Bullets work great out of the Blackhawk. Very pleased with this mold and all the others I have from Accurate.
 
AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Yes, the recoil is brisk. I am going to swap out the grips on this Blackhawk with some rubber ones tomorrow because the cheese grater grips it came with were chewing up the palm of my hand pretty good by the end of the work up. This gun is also a lot lighter than any of my 454 Casulls and I can definitely feel the difference in how much recoil I soak up vs how much the gun soaks up. This load is going to end up being a bear protection load for myself and my wife when we are carrying 45 Colts. I usually carry a 2.5" 454 Casull and did end up killing a bear with it about three years ago now but my wife prefers the 45 Colt in a Redhawk when she is berry picking so these loads will mostly be her bear protection loads. She does well with recoil and shoots it plenty fast enough but the 454 is a bit much for her. I also want to use this load for deer and possibly elk this year in the Blackhawk, that is why I am doing the workup in that gun. Attached is a picture of one of the bears we have run into in the past while deer and elk hunting. He is still alive as far as we know and still lives in the area in the picture. The day this was taken he walked about 20 yards away from my wife and I while we were trying to rattle in a buck.
 

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fiver

fiver

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Montana say's there ain't enough of them there to shoot any.
Idaho say's we can take 0.5% of the non migrant population [in one area] they don't know how many others wander in and out of the state.
 
AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

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I know at last count in the northern rockies in MT they estimated at least 1,200 grizzlies. That was at least four years ago now. That was where that bear in the picture was but it doesn't include the Kootenai range or the area between the Kootenai and the Flathead valley or the Bitteroot west to where you hit the boundary of the greater Yellowstone study area. I would bet if they did an accurate count in those areas they would come up with another thousand at least. I read an article once by one of the biologists doing the counts and he said they use hair scratching posts and DNA from that hair to do the counts but in some areas they knew for sure there were at least eight bears for every one they found on the scratching post. I don't think it is that many everywhere they sampled but I would the real count is twice to three times as many as show up on the scratching post hair samples.
 
AndyTheCornbread

AndyTheCornbread

Member
Yes, and that is exactly why we have a ton of bears but the official count remains so low. Even the biologists doing the counts admit their counts are way lower than what is actually out there. One of the girls that checks the hair traps got attacked earlier this spring so I don't really blame them for not being super enthusiastic to put out and check more of them but I do wish they would scale their counts to be accurate and allow us to hunt them.
 
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