WTB 38 Heeled Mold

[Patrick Henry Brown]

WTB either 38 Heeled mold or HBWC. Let me hear from you.

[Crow Scout]

Have you taken a look at these yet, Clint?  I'm thinking of getting a set of these for my conversions. 

http://www.oldwestbulletmoulds.com/

[Jubel]

I shoot the hollow base lead bullets in my conversion. They work very well.
I do this is for two reasons, one I can use the same ammo in my Uberti open tops 38s and
two I really don't know how to crimp the heel base bullet. I know that you must use the 41 Colt bullet
seating die for the 38 heeled bullet to prevent the heeled bullet from sticking in the
die but then how do you provide the necessary crimp? 
Check these out this is what I started with and they have the loaded ammo also.

http://www.riverjunction.com/catalog/guns/ammunition.html

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[Crow Scout]

Jubel,  I also have no experience with the heel based bullets but I'm wondering if folks are using the lee factory crimp die for these? 

lee factory crimp dies  .......  scroll down to pistol

I'm hoping someone will jump in on this cause I could use some educatin.   

[Pettifogger]

As Jubel pointed out, getting the heel based bullet is only half the problem.  You also have to find or have made a crimper that will crimp a heel based bullet.  The Lee Factory Crimp die is made for standard OD bullets.  It won't go around the heel based bullets which are the same OD as the case.

[Lone Oak]

Bernie at Old West Bullet Moulds makes the slickest crimp die for the heeled bullets by modifying a Lee F.C die for, I believe, a .35 Remington. The one he sent me comes with an adjustable length shell holder and works great when you get the shell holder length set for the case length. I am still waiting for R&D to send me the conversion cylinder so I just loaded a couple of dummy rounds to see how the crimp die worked-and it worked perfectly. I'm getting anxious to see how the '51 conversion will shoot.
 Lone Oak