NOE 225-67-GN MX3

[Ian]

As most of you know, I have never been impressed with NOE moulds nor had a lot good to say about them due to multiple issues of design that didn't work for me. However, Al has always been a fantastic person to deal with and it has been enough years since I tried out his moulds that I decided to give them another chance.

Boy am I glad I did.

This little .22 mould is near perfect. Everything fit, the alignment pins didn't bind, it casts round bullets, it came with no oil on the blocks (maybe he ultrasonically cleans them now?), the finish on all surfaces is excellent, all I did was wipe the cavities out with denatured alcohol, wipe a haze of Dominator on the underside of the sprue plate, and warm the mould up. In ten pours it was dropping perfect bullets and kept doing so until my wife made me stop and take her to dinner. Got about three pounds cast in no time, only pausing to lube the sprue plate one more time after a few hundred.

Looks like I'll be buying a few more NOE moulds in the future, particularly the sub-30 caliber ones, and I'm super happy to be able to say that now.

 

[uncle jimbo]

They look good. And it is always nice to keep the wife happy.

 

[Brad]

I should have a new NOE mould here early next week.
Very glad the new mould worked well for you.

 

[S Mac]

That's a good looking bullet. A profile like the Saeco 315?

 

[Ian]

Similar, I think it's based on one of Eagan's designs, and scaled to .22.

 

[freebullet]

Al's guna pass out Christmas bonuses this year now that Ian revisited his catalog.

Someone sent me some samples of that bullet a few years back. Seemed to work pretty good in the axis 223 @16-1800.

 

[Ian]

Well, we're gonna see how it does at 2600 and go up from there.

 

[fiver]

it is an Eagan design.

 

[KHornet]

Have over 20 NOE molds. Never a problem.

Paul