OK, here is another story about my lovely wife.
She is really a neat gal. I told you all about the Herter's press right? Well, this story is similar.

I was watching this mold on ebay and thought about making a bid. I told her about it and how I would like to have it. I hadn't bid yet though and then I noticed that someone else had. I bid once or twice and then the price got to be more than I wanted to pay so I stopped.

Here is a picture of the mold:


Little did I know, until Christmas day, that it was her that was doing all of the bidding and was doing it for me!

Did I tell you, what a gal!

The bullet looks like this:

The mold, even though it was advertised as an H&G, is a Modern Bond design. It came out of the mold with straight wheel weights @ .360" and weighing right at 162gr. There are two deep, square grease grooves with a wide crimp groove. It rivals an Elmer Keith design in that feature.
I loaded some up with a healthy charge of 2400 and ran them through my M686 6". Accuracy out to 20 yards was great. (Too cold to go outside and test them!)

Then I thought I would load some up for shooting plates with. The load is 3.0gr of Bullseye, my normal load for a bullet of this weight is 3.5gr but because there is much more bullet in the case I backed off just a tad for the first rounds!


I'm thinking this bullet may be a candidate for "THE LOAD" in the future. I'll have to call it something else though!

I'll get to the range (indoor) within the next few days and do an accuracy test on these and make another post.

Wish me well!

Ain't it nice, especially when they don't share the interest. Let us know how they shoot and what is the weight? 148?

That is a GREAT looking bullet. Your wife sounds a lot like mine. She is not a gun person yet bought me a new pistol one year for my birthday. This year she got me a new RCBS Quick Change Powder Measure for Christmas.
Cary

They come out of the mold @ 162gr with wheel weight material.

My wife is a gun nut too. She even hunts!
Here is a picture of her on our last hunt.



Here is her hog:



30/06 at about 30 yards!
It was small but it was all hers!

That bullet really needs a name of its own. FNLS or FNLB. It is truly impressive. Maybe the flat nose lead dowel or something. Now you need to work up some snubby loads. Bruce

I would love to see a comparison test of this bullet and the 165 gr. Wide Flat Nose bullets I find so accurate in my 627. The wadcutter shape may limit penetration, but that may not be a bad thing at all.

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Tom

I've use a bullet with a similar nose in 44 and they make such nice round holes in targets.

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Lynnie, Professional Pest

Great looking bullet!
I'll bet she shoots as good as she looks too!

Fantastic looking bullet and I'll bet it will shoot real well. Let us know what you get for groups.

So when are you going to sell some of these?

I love 'em.

smith crazy
At one time I used a similarly shaped Lyman WC bullet in 44 Special. I believe it was a 185 gr. WC with shallower lube grooves. It was an extreemely accurate bullet.

Took my Bullseye powder loads to the indoor range this evening. Shot 6 rounds at 10 yards and 5 rounds @ 20 (all the indoor range space that is available!)

I used the M14 6" to see what this load would do in a true 38spl revolver. I was impressed to say the least. I think I can tweak just a little bit and get these even better.

At 10 yards it is basically one big hole. At 20 yards it grew to right around 1 and a half inches.

I think I will call the bullet "THE BARREL". What do you think? This is something I am going to try to use for steel plates. I just won't be doing any reloads on the line with these bullets. You could measure the time with an hourglass if I did!

You wouldn't want that level of accuracy in a defense gun at short range. After all, that bullet not having the matter/antimatter properties of some these days, would leave you totally unarmed?
(HE, HEE!)

I ordered the Lyman 358432 back when I wanted to start casting for my .38. What a great wadcutter. Glad to see it's working for you.

Mine is only a single cavity mould, but I don't shoot too many wadcutters so it's not bad.

I need to cast up a few hundred to test them.

Where do you guys get your lead? When I look at lead ingots online I might as well buy the bullets already made. I have a solder melting pot that holds about 10 lbs that would come in handy, but the ingots seem prohibitive relative to already-cast.

I have several sources. One is where I get my service van serviced. I take it to them, they give me their wheel weights. Another is an indoor shooting range. It isn't free there but it is affordable.


Think about this. @ 7000 grains to the pound with a 158gr bullet @ $1 per pound, the cost of each bullet is $ 0.022727272727272727272727272727273 per bullet or $11.36 per 500. You can buy bullets for that? Don't think so.

E-bay and I try to get them for under $1 lb. Sometimes you find a deal.

In the past couple of weeks I've been able to find Lyman #2 for about a buck a pound delivered. I've gotten ww ingots for less.

Jeff