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CAS TOPICS => The Darksider's Den => Topic started by: Adirondack Jack on August 19, 2006, 07:48:09 PM

Title: Anybody else make their own molds?
Post by: Adirondack Jack on August 19, 2006, 07:48:09 PM

While looking for something else, I found my first bullet mold.  I was shooting a '61 navy at the time, just fooling with it, (pre CAS), with BP and pyrodex, and was terribly underwhelmed by RB performance.

Using whatever I had at hand, machining with a drill press and a civil war era lathe, I made this little monstrosity:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/adirondack_jack/_36-mold-prototype-for-web.jpg)

 which cast a HB bullet of around 70 grains from almost pure lead (NOS lead drain pipe tempered with a handfull of commercial cast bullets scrounged from the range) IIRC.  The "bullet" in the pic is a wax mold test bullet I cast while tinkering with the mold.

These bullets carried almost no lube, so I used a gob of bore butter on the chamber mouths, and loaded em on top a compressed load of FFG BP.  I dunno how fast they ran, as I didn't own a chrony then, but I know they would open upnicely in wet newspapers.

Anyway, thought I'd post a pic, and ask if anybody else played with makiing molds.