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Old 04-08-2018, 11:07 PM
Joed49 Joed49 is offline
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The lead bullets do indeed look like they were made from the Lyman 358429. The green lube probably came from Magma Engineering. and was probably done on a Star lube sizer.

I know this because in the early 2000's I ran a casting business named Black River Bullets and produced tons of those as well as .44 and .45 Keith style bullets using Lyman and Ballisti Cast molds. I used either the green or blue Magma lube and sold them all over the US and Canada. I actually sold several orders to a few gun shops out west. The only other producer I know of was Dry Creek Bullets but they used a different lube.

The 358429 bullet is very long and has problems if used in model 27 or 28 in .357 cases. This can be avoided by crimping over the top driving band. Or load them in .38 Spl cases which will work just fine. Many of the customers I sold to used .38 Spl cases and heavy loads of 2400 with no problems in their .357 revolvers.

I used to have a lot of loading data on all the bullets I produced but no longer have it.

Do not dry lube those bullets, shoot them as is, they are lubed and ready to go.

Last edited by Joed49; 04-08-2018 at 11:14 PM.
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