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Nice looking bullets there Semisane...

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How about if you made a jig to hold the bullet and drilled out the base of the 340 Lee with a drill press?The small flat point is close enough to a round nose.

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Well it might work but it would be tricky to get it just right. Since the redesign is fairly plain and the bullet is a copy of one of the old Minnie design with the sides smoothed out and the hollow base redesigned, somebody will come out with a mold version with just enough changes in the right places to avoid the pattens matching the alloy and copper plating is no problem. Lee

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Semisane, I have killed a couple with the .457-405F sized to .451 . They work great but I've only recovered one. Mine come out of the mold at 421 to 423 grains.

This one crashed through the rib cage of a medium sized buck and lost about 50 grains weight before lodging just under the skin on the off side.I believe the bullet weighed 373 grains as shown.

Not bad on paper either



One of my 340s all dressed up and sized to .451


and those do quite well from a 30" twist Knight

http://i37.tinypic.com/34hf6lt.jpg

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this might answer your other question, although this one is far from "undamaged". :D

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For 50 caliber I like the RCBS adjustable Hotchkiss mold. This mold allows you to adjust the length of the bullet you are pouring(which obviously affects the weight). My Knight rifles prefer the 525 grain bullet. I cast this bullet with straight WW, and it shoots great from my Knight rifles. Tom.

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Hey UC, what are you lubing those with?

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That is the $64,000 question. :D It's a homemade lube that started life as Bob Bower's Ruby Red in a small crockpot. As the level in the pot dropped, I started adding "stuff". It is at the point now where it is almost a complete mystery mix. I add a hunk of beeswax on occasion, a piece of parafin wax now and then, cooking oil or Crisco on occasion, flakes of Ivory soap when the urge hits me, a chunk of DoAll Tool Saver once, some other lube mix someone sent me to sample, occasionally some red food coloring just for the halibut, and heaven only knows what else I've put in that pot. I'll add something then figure it needs a bit more oil or a bit more wax or?? And it works!! :D I call it my bubblegum lube because (sometimes) it looks like bubblegum.

Bob's Ruby Red was a creation by Bob Bowers (aka Super91) based upon a variation of a lube recipe from Cast Boolits. Woodgoat makes a lube of"50% beeswax, 20% tallow, 15% jojoba oil, 15% lanolin and some red candle dye to make your bullets look like they been smeared wid bubblegum." I'm thinking I should sue him for patent infringement er sumpin. ;) His is actually prettier than mine but looks about the same on the finished bullet.He can get away with lubing his bullets like this

I would probably get confused and eat it.

With his lube and the method of application shown, he can simply push the bullets out of the cake and they come out like this



I may make some his recipe if my pot ever empties. :D

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:D:D:DWell, I do like your lube recipe. Patent applied for?

I use a mix of 25% bees wax, 25% Crisco, and 50% Olive oil on my patches and also smear it on Lee REALs. I guess I'll try that with the cast conicals. Don't want to infringe on your proprietary formula. :D

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I think you should add about 35% unknown to that mix. :D ;)