50 mold

[Stephen Borud]

The bullet turned out a little lite at 461 grains, target weight was 473. The nose design is just a tad off from the original, I think that is why it's lite. Mold cavity was cut at .496 od, the bullet drops out at .494-.4925. It looks like I got the shrinkage down right but was a little out of round when the cavity cut. Target OD of bullet was .494. I casted 5 good bullets and weighed them out. All 5 were within 1/10th of a grain in weight. The bullet drops out of the mold without any persuasion. Overall I'm am very pleased how this mold turned out. I will cast a few hundred bullets up to give the mold a good run down. I ended up using a piece if my paper patch template material for the sprue plate, it worked out slick. A antelope or deer will fall to this bullet in a month or so. If you notice I didn't put any vent lines in. I noticed that the old Winchester molds didn't use them so I didn't either. When I cut the faces I left them a hair rough and the mold vents without a problem.

Stephen