Lee 358 148 TL great little mold and bullet!!

Wasalmonslayer

Wasalmonslayer

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Had some extra time this am and my son and I love shooting this little pill.
It casts six nice little bullets at a time and they all drop around .360 diameter.
We shoot the over a little charge of bullseye and enjoy it immensely!!
This is a full size baking sheet cast out of a full rcbs pro melt old school pot.

I have tumble lubed and powder coated them.
Results are equally accurate and clean.

Many thanks to Ben for tipping me onto it.
 

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Wasalmonslayer

Wasalmonslayer

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Was never on my horizon till Ben gave me a nudge and boy am I glad he did.
It shoots just lovely and is about as powder puff as you can get!
My son was grinning like the Cheshire Cat after about two wheels full!
Accuracy is superb as well better than we can shoot by far…;)
 
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MW65

Wetside, Oregon
Waiting on midway to drop this mould off at my place. A friend wanted a powder puff wadcutter load for practice... and with it on clearance, i couldn't help myself... probably going to use titegroup/bullseye/unique, and see which works best.

Thanks!
Andy
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
Their SWC version of that is another "classic," which seems to work in about anything.

I was just thinking the other day that my 0-30 yard cat-sneeze load would probably be even better using a WC.

@Outpost75 has plenty of background to support their usefulness and has long been very generous in sharing about them.

If/when I DO get a new WC mould, this is the one I'd get.
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
WOW!

I just checked Midway's site and this mould is only $26.80, on clearance right now.

Set of handles is $21.99

Total of $48.79, which IS....

a whole TWENTY ONE CENTS short of FREE SHIPPING!

:headbang:
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
CWLONGSHOT said:
They plan it that way...
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There's a fish-hook remover on clearance for 83 cents, which I don't need, but it'll save me $10.33 in shipping.;)

EDIT: OK, anyone need a red, plastic fishhook remover?

Thank you @Wasalmonslayer , I really needed to do that, as I've been hemming and hawing for a couple years, knowing full well that I should get a full WC mould. Your heads-up on the clearance sale just got me a 6C, PLUS handles for abouit what a 6C alone would have cost me.
 
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waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I was just loading up some full wc .38’s myself. Mine is an RCBS DEWC mold. I have 1K once fired .38 wadcutter brass I’m using to load these up with 2.7gr of BE.
 

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Jeff H

NW Ohio
Kevin Stenberg said:
If you get a Lee mold on sale from Midway. Check it closely. Alot of their sale mold should be considered seconds. Just my exp..
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Will do, Kevin. There was enough of a variety of them on clearance that it didn't set off any alarm bells, like when only one limited run shows up like this.

If it's a turd, I'll get LEE to replace it so it doesn't come out of the lot Midway has - that is IF it turns out to be a "second." I don't men to imply it will be.

My biggest problem with Lee moulds has been casting under-sized, but that was years ago, so I'm reasonably confident.
 
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John

Active Member
In a long ago, somewhat odd test, I never got the groups with wadcutters using Red Dot, AA2, Green Dot, Universal or anything else to group as well as Bullseye. I am not sure it matters much now but it did when I had young eyes.
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
Kevin Stenberg said:
If you get a Lee mold on sale from Midway. Check it closely. Alot of their sale mold should be considered seconds. Just my exp..
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Hey, Kevin, it checked out just fine! Gambled and won this time! It was rife with burrs, but the scouring powder and "toothbrush" treatment wiped them all away cleanly and quickly.

Scrubbed it with Dawn and scouring powder, did one heat cycle, pre-heated a second time and cast a handful from a known pot of "alloy," and they fall out at .359", which is perfect for TL'ing right out of the mould - after they cool. of course.

OBVIOUSLY, LEE's shoulder bolts' shoulders are too short and pinch the sprue plate on both ends and it works loose in three pours if loosened enough to work right, so it will get @Ben 's set screw treatment and I should be off and running.

Thanks, @Wasalmonslayer , for t he tip on the clearance sale. It was an excuse to snag an extra set of handles at the same time and shipping was only eighty-some cents - for the clearance-priced plastic fish-hook remover I added, because I was seventy-some cents short of free shipping.
 
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