Lyman Bullet Mold

Bubbascool

I recently acquired a Lyman #358180 bullet mold. It has 2 cavities, and looks to make hunting bullets not SWC's or WC's. Does any one have information about this mold? I couldn't find anything on the Lyman web site.

gunsisme

358 is the bullet diameter with a specific lead tin antiminy alloy. The last digits are designating the bullet shape.

sjc1

I looked in my Lyman Casting manual and I found no listing for the #358180. Now I am interested in what it is?

aby80

My Lyman Cast Bullet Catalogs do not list a 358180 bullet mold with a notation that if the number is not on this list they do not make the bullet. They do list 358160 and 358480 bullet molds. Check the number on your mold again.

woodsrunner

My list of Lyman molds current and obsolete shows a 358160 but not a 358180. 358160 shows as a pointed, heeled bullet. It must be for one of the early 38 cartridges not the 38 special/357 mag. It could also possibly be a custom mold. Goodluck on this one it's a mystery to me.

Woods

How big a boy are ya?

ked-mar

Check your mold again, real close. I think you have a #358480.
Thats a 150 grain, round nose, bullet. The number 4 might be stamped very light. Best of luck.

LOOK TWICE,SHOOT ONCE.

kaboom

I think Ked-Mar is right, it must be a 358480. My list of Lyman molds goes back to just about everything they made since WWII and there is no 358180 shown. But the 4 in the 480 could easily be mistaken for a 1 if the die was struck lightly. The Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook says the .358480 mold throws a 133 grain SWC bullet in Lyman's #2 alloy.

ked-mar

My Lyman book 44 edition says, on page 244, that this bullet, is 150 grains, is for handguns, and.35 Remington rifle. I think all of Lymans bullets are given as #2 alloy. No trying to start fight, just difference in manuals I guess.
Pour some, and try them. Best of luck.

LOOK TWICE,SHOOT ONCE.