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38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Aug 20th, 2021 at 5:57pm
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Starting to think about attempting to make a 38-55 cast bullet mold myself. 
I've had a Lyman 335 gr. on backorder for nearly 4 months now, emailed them and the reply wasn't very encouraging. Looked at the BACO 360 gr "Money" bullet but I see that's been out of stock for several months now.
I do have a lathe and a mill, a couple chunks of Aluminum, a couple pieces of 360 bearing bronze, what could go wrong ?  Roll Eyes
Anyone got a drawing for ~.378 dia. bullet @ about 335 ~ 360 grain they'd be willing to share ?
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #1 - Aug 20th, 2021 at 7:07pm
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Noe had this.its a start
  
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #2 - Aug 20th, 2021 at 7:24pm
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Look at Accurate molds, they have drawings on them.you might get some help there.
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 20th, 2021 at 8:38pm
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This should take you to sticky on this site with quite a few various bullet drawings.

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Reply #4 - Aug 20th, 2021 at 8:47pm
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Would also help if we knew what your intended use might be. It does make a big difference in regards to what might be the best design for your own personal use.
  

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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #5 - Aug 21st, 2021 at 2:38am
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FWIW, BACO moulds are always out of stock, but are made to order.  Delivery times are still quite good, nevertheless.
  
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #6 - Aug 21st, 2021 at 9:50am
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JLouis wrote on Aug 20th, 2021 at 8:47pm:
Would also help if we knew what your intended use might be. It does make a big difference in regards to what might be the best design for your own personal use.

Thanks for the link to the drawings BTW.

Winchester Highwall - made my own action from the ASSRA plans, drilled, reamed and rifled my own barrel, did the woodwork, made the sights. Started out 45-70 but finding that has too much recoil for an old guy.  Bought gun drill, bore reamer etc. for 38-55 . Now the Mold ? Thinking 360 gr. for BPCR, something lighter for Scheutzen maybe.
Shoot some BPCR, some smokeless. May give Scheutzen a try
  
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #7 - Aug 21st, 2021 at 11:13am
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MartiniBelgian wrote on Aug 21st, 2021 at 2:38am:
FWIW, BACO moulds are always out of stock, but are made to order.  Delivery times are still quite good, nevertheless.

Guess you've not ordered one in while. BACo has been out of mold blocks for some months, unless something has changed in the last couple of weeks..

cuslog wrote on Aug 21st, 2021 at 9:50am:
Started out 45-70 but finding that has too much recoil for an old guy.  Bought gun drill, bore reamer etc. for 38-55 . Now the Mold ? Thinking 360 gr. for BPCR, something lighter for Scheutzen maybe.
Shoot some BPCR, some smokeless. May give Scheutzen a try

Amen to that 45-70 blunderbuss.
Our top woman shooter is using a 12" twist, 30" barrel and 49gr of 1 1/2F Swiss behind a 345gr Creedmoor bullet and doing very well with it (won her class, top woman & new national record at last month's BPCR Nationals). 
Accurate sells mold blocks in Al, brass & iron at reasonable prices. Easy place to start.
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #8 - Aug 21st, 2021 at 11:46am
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I have no BP experience but only 200 yard Schuetzen Benchrest. I have had the best success in the past with the Hoch Pope style bullet design myself for this particular use while also using smokeless. Rifle a CPA Schuetzen Jr. with a Douglas 15 twist. You should be able to expand the below target to see the load data at the bottom and if not just ask. I have shot several targets in the 248, 249 range in the past using this same load data that is being shown. I unfortunately don't recall the bullet length / weight as I stopped shooting it quite sometime back and passed the barrel and the mould onto somebody else. 
I hope this might somehow be of some help. 

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Reply #9 - Aug 21st, 2021 at 3:42pm
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Ideal 375166, 320 gr clone on Accurate Molds … 16 sold
38-55 bullet is accurate to 500 meters - 42gr Kik FFg with a Uberti HiWall, 1:18 twist
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #10 - Aug 22nd, 2021 at 10:47am
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JLOUIS :
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Re: 38-55 Mold Drawing ?
Reply #11 - Aug 22nd, 2021 at 11:24am
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Try Steve Brooks for a set of blocks.  He told me, a couple years ago, that when he stopped shooting BPCR that he spent some time just making blocks.  Said he has several years worth of blanks.
As well, Randy Wright shared a Brooks design with me for BPCR and Long Range shooting in the 335gr range.

just sayin...

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