Accurate Mould

[Kurt]

Actually it should be drilled and taped on the left side of the action when looking at it from the rear. That should be the same action as my 45-70 and I have a williams peep sight on it. My Marlin also has the micor grove barrel and I have never shot anything except jacketed through it. Since I dont' shoot it much and have picked up a couple of bags of Rem 300gr jacketed bullets, I doubt I will ever throw any cast in it.
Kurt, I didn't know the 444 had such a small thin rim, I dont think I ever even handled any of those cases. The case lube I like is the stuff Dillon sells in the pump spray bottle, and you can get the same stuff from Frankfort Arsonel from Midway. Its lanolin in an alcohol mix. Throw you cases in a box, give them a spray and shake them around a bit and your ready to go. When I switched over to this lube, I cleaned my dies with alcohol and then lubed the inside of the die and I haven't had any problems since. You still can end up with extra lube on your cases and some dents on the shoulders and walls of straight cases but you can get that with any lube if your not careful. How do you like the brass mold? If I order another mold from Accurate I might go that route. The one I got from him I like a lot but I went with the Aluminum. There is not any doubt in my mind that his molds are second to none.
Sam

Sam the .444 is a .44 Mag on steroids. I have shot the .44 mag in this rifle and it shoots it fine. a little problem working them through the action, but one in the chamber and one through the action works fine.

The problem in the beginning was getting a proper bullet for the .444. The .429 bullet does not work well in the .444. Over the years I have tried to make this rifle shoot cast bullets and I gave up on it and stuck with the jacketed. I had Corbin make a swage die so I could use a thicker jacket that would hold at 2200 fps velocity and not strip the thin pistol bullet jacket off. It is a fine shooter using that bullet.
Now Hornady and others are making a bullet .432 diameter and a lot heavier for the fast twist .444's

Sam I like the Brass moulds. This is not the first one I have used. One thing you have to watch out for is not overheating it. Don't put it on a hotplate to preheat them I have messed one up doing this.
Also it is easy to tin the brass cutting the sprue before it is set up or when you flux the alloy with out skimming off the flux and this also fluxes the brass and the tin in the alloy will tin the mould. It really don't hurt the mould block under the sprue plate, it just makes it look dirty.
You don't have to worry about rust
I just lay the mould on the rim of the pot when it's heating and start casting throwing the first few back till the wrinkles disappear.

Kurt