Hello All,

[laowho]

Yes Kurt, I was worried about that too. Know next to nuthin about these. I am gonna burnish the barrel first before any firing, but still don't want unknown junk goin thru it. Which is why I wanna just melt these down separately to clean them up. Will check the ingot afterward for hardness, which may go to yer point Iron...figure these may be some variant of Lyman #2 alloy and water cooled to get from 15 to 18 BHN but dunno, and even annealing will only soften for what? Two weeks before they harden up again? And also dunno what that coating will do. Think it's best I just make a clean ingot then use for some provisional hardening later.

Don, if we're talkin the original Postell, isn't that what I'm getting w/ Walt's NEI Ideal Replica? And in which case isn't the BACO C'moor redundant? Unless...I can save $$ w/ the BACO C'moor mould for which I now already have the handles. Interesting. Know I'm putting too fine a point on all this if I insist on payin 3x more for the NEI Ideal Postell (gotta include handle cost here, total $210) than for the nearly identical BACO C'moor and for quality differences that I probly won't even to appreciate for years as I figure the other dynamics out. I think my wife just thanked ye...

edit...well I'm back to square one. Was confusing the BACO Lyman mould/handle with the BACO mould/...handle? First, the BACO mould is just as much as the NEI, and second...where's the handle? Is it the universal they sell? Curioser and curioser. Moreover, these are a def .459, and I've been shoppin everything in .458 where I could get it cuzza what you said elsewhere about Shiloh bein tite. Yeah, the NEI isn't guaranteed .458, but w/ alloy temp controls I mite have a chance...But w/ this Buffalo mould I can't get under .459 no matter what, and while that mite still be w/i tolerance, anything over needs sizin. Bottom line for me is the NEI Walt design sounds the better option, specially since the $$ is the same. Only real option left seems the Lyman 132 for $80, or the jump to the NEI Walt design/original Postell and hope I learn to appreciate the difference. See the BA C'moor has the reduced front driving band, dunno if the NEI does, or how much difference the added powder makes.