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38 moulds
Nov 16th, 2025 at 5:17pm
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Recently someone was looking for 38 mould apparently of any kind. I can’t find the message. Help. Thanks
  
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Re: 38 moulds
Reply #1 - Nov 16th, 2025 at 5:51pm
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I think that may have been Dennis H " hairtrigger " on this forum.
  
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Re: 38 moulds
Reply #2 - Nov 16th, 2025 at 6:37pm
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I'm looking for a 38 Long Colt. Its a round nose hollow base of about 150 grain weight.
Lyman 35870 
Rapine 358149
There may be others. I know Wild West Molds makes a version.
  
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Re: 38 moulds
Reply #3 - yesterday at 10:49am
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cellargun wrote on Nov 16th, 2025 at 6:37pm:
I'm looking for a 38 Long Colt. Its a round nose hollow base of about 150 grain weight.
Lyman 35870 
Rapine 358149
There may be others. I know Wild West Molds makes a version.


They're also a heeled base mold.
  
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Re: 38 moulds
Reply #4 - yesterday at 12:27pm
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That's Old West Bullet Moulds in Colorado. Ask Bernie Rowles if he could do a hollow base one for you.
  
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Re: 38 moulds
Reply #5 - yesterday at 7:52pm
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marlinguy wrote yesterday at 10:49am:
cellargun wrote on Nov 16th, 2025 at 6:37pm:
I'm looking for a 38 Long Colt. Its a round nose hollow base of about 150 grain weight.
Lyman 35870 
Rapine 358149
There may be others. I know Wild West Molds makes a version.


They're also a heeled base mold.


A friend has both the Lyman and Rapine and both are hollow base molds. 
Crazy as it sounds, a seriously undersize bullet with a hollow base shoots well in my rifle. My understanding is that the later factory rounds were loaded that way rather than the heel base bullet.
I would prefer to avoid the heel base style if possible to avoid yet another variable. 
Oneatatime, thank you. Yes, Old West, not Wild West.
  
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