Thread: Mold questions
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Old October 10, 2011, 02:55 PM   #18
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I think the Tumble Lube design is an excellent choice. My first TL mold was for 148 grain wadcutters for .38 Special. It cut my K-frame target revolver's group sizes in half off the bags as compared either to commercial match ammo or to handloaded conventional cast bullets. A lot of old timers used to say best accuracy and the least leading came from shooting bullets as-cast (not sized) if you could get them to fall out of the mold in the right size range. TL's are made to do exactly that.

If you don't like the price of Lee Liquid Alox, the exact same material is sold by White Label as X-lox (not to be confused with a certain chocolate flavored laxative) for just over $10/quart last time I looked. If you don't like the waxy surface, let it dry to the tacky stage and dust it with a little motor mica and roll that around.
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