A bullet mold, but what does it throw? A quick inspection reveled it to be a Lyman block, with handles, and it had a pistol bullet,cavity about .45 caliber. The blocks were dirty and I couldn't see the mold number, but I figured it was worth a chance. I told the auctioneer, who was standing nearby, that when the blocks got to his hands, I'd open at $25.00.
Then, I was in a quandary. My eyes aren't calibrated to the thousandth, but I knew that the cavity was either a .44 or .45 caliber block and that the mold would throw a semi-wadcutter bullet with two lube grooves. I've got a .44, and I've got a couple of .45 ACP, but if the mold threw a bullet for the .45 Long Colt, I'd have a mold block with no pistol to match it. Still, at $25.00, I figured it would be a good deal, and I could use it for trading material.
Later, when the auctioneer cane to the tool table, he picked up the mold and announced, "I've got a twenty-five dollar opening bid on this bullet mold." Nobody said a word. "Going once, going twice, third and final offer.... Sold for twenty five dollars." He handed me the blocks.
I found a rag and started looking for the mold number under a decade of bench dust. 452460. I quick Google on my phone revealed tbe mold to be a semiwadcutter for the .45ACP, a 200 grain bullet.
MidwayUSA sells that same block for $71.99 and the handles for $36.99, At an opening bid of $25.00, I probably did okay.
6 comments:
I shoot a 200 gr cast 45 acp over 4 gr of bullseye. It's a good load.
6 Gr. of Win 231 makes major power factor for USPSA. That is if you can find any Win 231 powder.
You did a little better than OK,my 1911 loves that boolet.
You did well, sir.
Yep, score one for the good guys! :-)
Those handles look like LEE, not Lyman. Good handles, though, and suitable for multiple hole mold blocks.
Dynamite buy, you did well.
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