Time for a new Mold
02-14-2017, 06:48 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
I may join you in only shooting roundballs - again this next hunting season. It's all I used in Michigan's Deer and Muzzleloading season in 2016.
What I really-really want to do this spring, is put Williams Fiber Optic sights on my 32" 1:66 barrel. I just don't have the testicles to deliver my Traditions Shenandoah to a local gunsmith for the needed drill-work.
My factory primitive sights are really terrible and my 65 year-old bifocal eyes can't take another season trying to focus on those early 1900s sights anymore.
I know the brassy ML will look like Crappola with Williams Fiber-Optics, but I can take all the oncoming ribbing and laughter ..........like a man is supposed to.
What I really-really want to do this spring, is put Williams Fiber Optic sights on my 32" 1:66 barrel. I just don't have the testicles to deliver my Traditions Shenandoah to a local gunsmith for the needed drill-work.
My factory primitive sights are really terrible and my 65 year-old bifocal eyes can't take another season trying to focus on those early 1900s sights anymore.
I know the brassy ML will look like Crappola with Williams Fiber-Optics, but I can take all the oncoming ribbing and laughter ..........like a man is supposed to.
Before you plunk down your $$ on Williams sights, take a look at what Marbles has to offer. Williams sights are machined aluminum and although they are a nice sights, they're still more susceptible to damage than steel. Marbles sights are steel. Their front sights are offered in a wide range of heights and widths, red or green FO inserts, and brass or ivory beads as well. They also offer some nice looking adjustable rear sights in a number of configurations, all made of steel.
A friend of mine put a Williams front sight on a TC rifle some years ago and eventually took it off because a minor "bump" while hunting pretty much put it out of commission. He replaced it with an RMC sight.
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Last edited by Blackpowdersmoke; 02-14-2017 at 06:53 PM.
02-14-2017, 06:51 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
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I've had my .490" double cavity Lee ball mold for many many years, so many I can't even remember. How many balls it has produced is in an even funnier thing to try to figure out.
The new molds are much nicer with the blocks being machines nicer and the mating pieces that align the blocks, now looking like real point bullets so they slide into the mold block nicely and center up.
$27 bucks, what the heck. All I shoot is 50cal round ball now, so I figured these new guns need a new mold so everything is fresh.
The new molds are much nicer with the blocks being machines nicer and the mating pieces that align the blocks, now looking like real point bullets so they slide into the mold block nicely and center up.
$27 bucks, what the heck. All I shoot is 50cal round ball now, so I figured these new guns need a new mold so everything is fresh.
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Last edited by Blackpowdersmoke; 02-14-2017 at 09:05 PM.
02-18-2017, 10:49 AM
#17
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
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I also think that is why all the .562 are in the bargain bin. There just is no market for them. But for $15.00 I figured what the heck.
02-18-2017, 12:09 PM
#18
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Location: Boncarbo,Colorado
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man that mold has such tiny holes that I had to run the lead hot, along with the mold. I walked away for a few minutes to let the ingot melt and the mold had cooled down enough that the lead gummed up and the balls were wrinkled. I think they make them tiny for their bottom pour lead pots. Either way, once I learned that, I got a couple hundred made and even had a friend helping me.
02-19-2017, 03:20 PM
#19
Nontypical Buck
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I was on the phone with a person at LEE molds years back and I asked him that very question. He claimed they never made the .570 only the .575. Not having facts before me, I said I thought I remembered a .570 and he said you must be thinking of a Lyman mold. So maybe I just imagined they made a .570 mold.
I also think that is why all the .562 are in the bargain bin. There just is no market for them. But for $15.00 I figured what the heck.
I also think that is why all the .562 are in the bargain bin. There just is no market for them. But for $15.00 I figured what the heck.
I'm sure LEE has marketing reps like any other company that's been around as long as they have. You would think one of them would have brought it to their attention that the .570 is much more widely used than a .562, or .575
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