Wanting <100g 32 mold

The Lyman 311419 with a gas check and AA1680 is gangbusters in the 32-20, I have 3 of them and all work well with that combo. I gotta believe it'd do well in the modern 32 mags.

Chris
 
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Cherokee

Medina, Ohio
Agree, the 311419 worked well in 32-20 and in 30 Carbine pistol loads. Since mine was 1 cavity, I replace it with the Accurate 31-090B 5 cavity I mentioned earlier.
 

Kevin Stenberg

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You think your having problems finding a -100 gr bullet. I have been looking for a 70 to 80ish gr 32 cal for my 32acp. Hens teeth are more common. I did find an Accurate 90 gr on Evil bay but that is still too heavy
 

Kevin Stenberg

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I have checked out Toms many fine mold options. I am waiting for funds to come in from molds i have on another site. I will then be ordering a mold.
Today i was looking on Evilbay an found a 4 cavity Accurate mold with 4 different molds for 30 cal. air guns. They were too small in dia. and not heavy enough.
 
There is also the Lyman 311252 at 75 grains. I have one of those and it does OK, a tad small for 32-20 (hard to believe I know). It is also a plain base. But. cast hard enough and pushed reasonably, it does just fine. I have 12 30 cal moulds, most of which hover around the 100 to 120 grain mark.
Chris
 

L Ross

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You think your having problems finding a -100 gr bullet. I have been looking for a 70 to 80ish gr 32 cal for my 32acp. Hens teeth are more common. I did find an Accurate 90 gr on Evil bay but that is still too heavy
Kevin, take a look and see if the Lyman 313249 would meet your needs. I have a two cavity laying around here doing nothing. I could let you use it to cast up a stockpile.
 
Ditto on my 311252 Kevin. However, it's only a single cavity, so you'll need it a bit longer. I also have the six cavity Lee soup can if your interested, although, that is more like a 93 grain slug.

Chris
 

CWLONGSHOT

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I was able to do some Casting Saturday afternoon before it got too cold.
I wanted to try the 32/98 SWC Mold I got from David! I had to toss away the very first two bullets. ONLY the very first two! I cast up about 3-350 pcs. Then powder Coated them Mirror Gloss Black.
I also “won” another RCBS mold off eBay. The seller was all wet, but acknowledged zero knowledge of what he was selling. (And totally inability to take a photograph) BUT price was good and I bit and got it. It arrived covered in surface rust. (Inside Mold Clean as new) About 20hrs dunk in Evapo Rust left me a brand new looking mold and Handles.
BEFORE;

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AFTER:
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This one also cast beautiful bullets.

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Third mold was my new to me 358429 HP .694DD910-E707-4EB3-A6E8-4673B6F33FC0.jpeg

Yes evapo Removes bluing!!
Funny, these two RCBS appear to be nearly exactly the same profile. (45 is a GC)

CW
 
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Nice catch! RCBS builds good moulds. You could always use some "Oxpho-blue" on it if you want a nice blued finish. I've re-done the bluing on moulds using that stuff, it works well.

Chris
 

CWLONGSHOT

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I found another RCBS mold yesterday!!!

32-98-WC!!!

Happy to try this one next!

The other 32-98-SWC is working splendidly as well!!
CW
 
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CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
My sole 32 wadcutter mould is a trivia question--Lyman #313492. It is basically Lyman #358432 that shrunk in the washing machine. Accurate enough to almost keep up with RCBS 32-98-SWC, it really shined in the Walther GSP and later in the Nagant 1895 7.62 x 38R, flush-seated in both. Rather than set a case mouth crimp, I ran the otherwise finished cartridges about .025" into the 32 SWL size die since the bullet's button front end was smaller than the drive bands (about .305").