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another mold
May 23rd, 2017 at 6:36pm
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what can you tell me about this one.
  
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Re: another mold
Reply #1 - May 25th, 2017 at 9:54pm
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Looks like a nice one.
  
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Reply #2 - May 26th, 2017 at 8:51am
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It's a Hoch nose pour, 0.314" nominal diameter, 176 grains weight in whatever alloy the customer said he was going to use.  The October 76 date of manufacture suggests that it was done by Richard Hoch himself, before he sold the business to Dave Farmer.

The blocks were lathe-bored from the finest Meehanite.  Except for hollow points, he would make any design the customer specified, to any diameter(s).  That mould looks like it's never been used.
  
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Reply #3 - May 26th, 2017 at 9:58am
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Very nice indeed and I have had real good success with that bullet design and the nose pour moulds.

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Reply #4 - May 26th, 2017 at 5:29pm
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What round might it be for? .314" 32-20? or just a custom size.
  
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Reply #5 - May 27th, 2017 at 10:56am
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Have you tried to measure the bullet base diameter? you could do that with gauge pins, lacking those, with calipers you could eye-ball it fairly close. If neither of those are an option for you, try a scale with increments in hundredths.
What I'm getting at is don't take that 314 stamp too literally. If the bullet base band is .322 to .324, you have a nice, new Hock mould from 1978 that has some value. If it is indeed .314, that limits it's usefulness to those two shooters out there with barrels it will fit.
  
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Re: another mold
Reply #6 - May 27th, 2017 at 11:45am
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I second RSW's request for band diameter measurements.  I have a rifle with a bore diameter of .308 and a groove diameter of .314.  I am quite interested in the mould.
  
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Reply #7 - May 28th, 2017 at 8:28am
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I just got these two molds from one of our club members, he had a whole box of molds. He was selling them for a fellow Long Islander who recently auctioned off most of his collection of fine (left hand) single shot rifles. The Eagan mold will come in handy for a .32 cal, rifle someday. I will measure the Hock mold with a gage pin and post my findings.   
  
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Reply #8 - May 29th, 2017 at 8:03pm
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It looks like the .314" is the dia. of the bottom base band. I can get an exact measurement with a pin tomorrow but the calipers show it to be a .314 cal bullet 
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Reply #9 - May 29th, 2017 at 9:20pm
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The mold is a modernized nose-pour version of the Pope-designed Ideal/Lyman 308403 or 311403.
  
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