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I was thinking there is a lot of experienced reloaders and casters here. It would be nice to have people post their favorite caliber specific cast bullet profile/ weight as a place for new casters to look before buying their first molds. So pick a caliber (or calibers) and identify what bullet profile/ weight you like best and let’s hear what mold you use and why you like that particular bullet. You’re experience will likely save others (myself included) money and frustration.
I tend to like the Lee six cavity molds due to inexpensive price and speed of output.
.45acp my most used mold is the Lee tumble lube 452 230 grn round nose. Both my 1911 and Glock 30 seem to really like this profile for a practice load over 4.3 gn of WST
https://leeprecision.com/mold-6-cav-tl452-230-2r.html
.40 S&W I just bought the .401 175 grn turnicated cone. Haven’t loaded this yet, but it casts heavy with wheel weight, closer to 180 grn. My Glock 27 does not feed semi wad cutters reliably at all.
https://leeprecision.com/6-cav-401-175-tc.html
I was thinking there is a lot of experienced reloaders and casters here. It would be nice to have people post their favorite caliber specific cast bullet profile/ weight as a place for new casters to look before buying their first molds. So pick a caliber (or calibers) and identify what bullet profile/ weight you like best and let’s hear what mold you use and why you like that particular bullet. You’re experience will likely save others (myself included) money and frustration.
I tend to like the Lee six cavity molds due to inexpensive price and speed of output.
.45acp my most used mold is the Lee tumble lube 452 230 grn round nose. Both my 1911 and Glock 30 seem to really like this profile for a practice load over 4.3 gn of WST
https://leeprecision.com/mold-6-cav-tl452-230-2r.html
.40 S&W I just bought the .401 175 grn turnicated cone. Haven’t loaded this yet, but it casts heavy with wheel weight, closer to 180 grn. My Glock 27 does not feed semi wad cutters reliably at all.
https://leeprecision.com/6-cav-401-175-tc.html