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Old August 10, 2012, 07:49 PM   #1
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New M-P mold 359640 HP

I got a new mold today. It is a brass 4 cavity with the penta pins, normal round pins and I got plug pins to cast solid flat nose. I have only cast the solid point so far. I like it. Using what's left of my range lead.
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Old August 10, 2012, 08:56 PM   #2
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That's a good lookin bullet!
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Old August 10, 2012, 09:16 PM   #3
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Here is a picture of one that has been sized and lubed. This dropped at .359. I sized down to .358. Lube is White Label Lube BAC. The bullet drops at 165 grains. Forgot to weigh it after adding the lube.
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Old August 12, 2012, 12:44 PM   #4
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Albiet the photo being a bit grainy, you clearly have casted a quality bullet that might make a few jealous. Good job!
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Old August 12, 2012, 02:19 PM   #5
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I have a hard time understanding why to spend the extra money for a cramer type hollow point mold, then make solids!?¿

I have 3 now, the only one that has made solids is the 700 gr. grand canyon 50 cal. for the 500 S&W, the solid is actually 700 grains! The other 2 have only made H-P boolits, the 45 200, the 44 430640.

The fourth M-P mold is the 200 SWC H-G 68 copy. It is being made as a H-P design as well, but already having a 200 H-P I decided to stick with a solid.



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Old August 12, 2012, 06:32 PM   #6
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I bought this mold because it was brass, high quality and I like it. And I have the options to cast hollow points or not if I choose.

I could take a better picture, but I haven't figured out how to make a small sized high quality picture that is under the limits put on me by this forum.
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Old August 12, 2012, 06:44 PM   #7
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Is using links from photobucket allowed? This one is somewhat better.

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Old August 12, 2012, 06:50 PM   #8
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photobucket is allowed. That's where all of mine are hosted.

(but you gotta be careful you don't move them to a different folder in photobucket after you link to it.) I've messed up a few threads when I forgot I had linked to some and "organized" my pictures later.
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Old August 12, 2012, 06:54 PM   #9
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I was trying to upload the pictures directly to the Firingline. They only allow 200kb's? Photobucket seems to size them down enough to post them as image code.
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Old August 13, 2012, 02:26 AM   #10
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Your bullets should look like this when done. I have both penta and round hp cavities.
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