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Need help identifying mould
Jan 31st, 2015 at 1:05pm
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Received some cast bullets in a trade but fellow did not have the mould and could not tell me who made it.
OAL is 1.150"
Weight is 284 gr. +-
Nose diameter .366
Front wiping band .372
Other bands and base .376

Mould is base pour type
I'd appreciate any help in identifying.

Kirk
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Reply #1 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 2:51pm
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You may wish to provide the width of the grease grooves. They appear much larger than most of the black powder style bullets I have used. It might help identify who made them.
  
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Schuetzendave,
The grease grooves measure .085 wide
Base band measures .132
the two center bands measure .040 wide
  
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Reply #3 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 3:49pm
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Did you try looking through the Accurate Molds on-line catalogue for a match?    its a long shot but you never know.
  
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I'll give it a try.
  
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Reply #5 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 9:54pm
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It kinda looks like an Accurate mould to me too
  
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Reply #6 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 10:40pm
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I looked over the accurate mould web site and the closest I could find was their #37-285. But it is .368 all the way from the nose to the base. Could not find a similar bullet in .375.
  
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Reply #7 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 11:18pm
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when you order from AM you can take a given bullet design as a base and then rework a lot of the dimensions on the order form to come up with a new custom design.  But he usually adds any significant variation to the "design inventory" as a new bullet
  
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Reply #8 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 11:48pm
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I checked the lube groove diameters of my .38 and .40 caliber molds:

Accurate Molds: .065"
Boomer Molds: .065"
Lyman Molds: .045"
Paul Jones Molds: .085"
RCBS Molds: .065"
SAECO Molds: .040"
Winchester Molds: .050"

It may be a Paul Jones Mold.
He made wider grease grooves for Black Powder bullets.
  
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Schuetzendave,
That would be my luck...............
It has shown good potential, sure would like to find out who cut it or maybe someone that could take one of the few I have left and duplicate it. Any ideas would be appreciated.
  
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Reply #10 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 11:54pm
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Although Paul Jones no longer makes his bullets, you can have Leo from Boomer Molds duplicate it for you.

  
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Reply #11 - Jan 31st, 2015 at 11:59pm
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Schuetzendave,
Thanks for the help, I'll send Leo an email tomorrow with the picture and see what he says.
  
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