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bullet mold ??

MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,036 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2010 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
One of my 'finds' at a gun show this week-end ($10 [:D]), no makers name. approx. 125 gn round nosed bullet. anyone know who made this?
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  • SP45SP45 Member Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Looks to be all steel. Lyman and Ideal would be marked. Looks to be good quality. Thinking back about 25 years didnt Hensley and Gibbs make mold blocks.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can't tell from the photo, but it doesn't appear that the bullet takes a gas check - so that rules out what the "G" might mean. It appears to be a rather conventional 38-caliber roundnose of perhaps 120 to 140 grains. In short, a dead common design not liable to be from a custom mould maker.

    Lyman doesn't list a 358580 in its obsolete mould tables, with or without the hyphens. It might be an RCBS, or an old Saeco, perhaps.

    If you can find handles to fit, it ought to cast a useful and accurate little plinker bullet for the 38 Special.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • trapguy2007trapguy2007 Member Posts: 8,959
    edited November -1
    Google Hensley and Gibbs .
    They have all their numbers listed .
    I do believe it is one of theirs .
    Great molds .
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  • brnhp35brnhp35 Member Posts: 1 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    cant see images so not sure if same but my "gun show find" is a bit of a mystery as well it is 2 cavity with 1 tc and 1 rn look to be 125-140 grain steel sprue plate looks to have been replaced at some time but is tight adn well fit no makers mark but labeled g-358-580 and e-358-550....another odd thing is the dashes between label parts are the # 1 turned on its side ??????
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