I have been looking for such a mould in the 250-280 grains range but can’t find a manufacturer listing moulds in this diameter.
Came across a custom moulds’ manufacturer in the USA (Mountain Moulds) but it seems that they won’t be accepting orders for a while!

Can someone help me finding this mould?

Thanks

B.Martins

www.neihandtools.com

Rich

If you are prepared to buy overseas and can wait a while, then Cast Bullet Engineering in Australia makes several designs in 9.3. They make good moulds.
Joe

Lee Precision will make custom moulds to order. Very expensive if you just want one. Very cheap if you can use 25 or more.

They charge list price for the moulds plus a setup charge of around $100 they waive on orders of 25 or more. Cast Boolits is the center for group buys with a bunch of guys pooling funds to get the lower rate.

I may have a Lyman but I don't know what weight it is. I believe it is a 245 gr. Around $40.00 if you are interested.

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Originally posted by TBoggus:
I may have a Lyman but I don't know what weight it is. I believe it is a 245 gr. Around $40.00 if you are interested.

I sent yoy a PM

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
www.neihandtools.com

Rich

if you order from them, get an assurance it'll cast the weight bullets you want..

jeffe

b.martins,

I just got lucky, found a four-cavity NEI mould on cast boolits forum last week...$60 included shipping. It came this afternoon. Two of the cavities are 260gr and the other two are 304gr, both RFN gascheck designs.
Seated to the base of the neck, the 260 is the same oal as the Norma factory fmj spitzer loads I have.
Both bullets are shown as line drawings in the NEI catalog.

FYI: the 260gr is 1.083" in length, and the 304gr is 1.254". By comparison the 286gr Nosler Partition is 1.372".
The bullets cast (20:1 alloy)out at .367" diameter and are less than .0005 out of round.
Hope this is of some help.

regards,

Rich
NRA Life Member
DRSS

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Originally posted by JFE:
If you are prepared to buy overseas and can wait a while, then Cast Bullet Engineering in Australia makes several designs in 9.3. They make good moulds.
Joe

Thanks for the info Joe. I contacted CAST Bullet Engineering, Au and I am considering getting the Plain Base 9.3 ( I think it is 368-275 gr.) My question is this: This bullet comes out of the CBE mould .368, now how do I go about to size it to .366. or is the .002 something to worry about?

Also, are gas checks available for 9,3 cast bullets? I think I will go with the Plain Base to avoid the hassel of gas checks. Ideas?

thanks.

Exit 31,

In case you are not aware with cast bullets best results are generally obtained with a cast bullet being approx .002 over groove diameter. In the case of 9.3 this means 0.368 is what you want. Depending on the throat dimensions, even larger may be required for best results.

There are no GC's that I am aware of in 9.3 and users of 9.3 GC moulds simply use 375 GC's and swage these on without problems.

In case you are not aware plain bullets generally work best when limited to 1400-1500 fps max, but depending on alloy used and bullet fit in the throat, some folks get away with another 2-300 fps higher than this. If you want higher velocities I'd suggest a GC design. Generally its not easy to fit a GC to a PB design but some folks fashion GC's out of aluminium cans to fit PB bullets. You need the tools for this and that's too much effort for my liking.

CBE might be inclined to make up two designs in the one mould for you, eg a PB and GC design and then you can have low velocity and cheaper bullet in PB and still have another in a GC design for higher velocity. Cost should not be that much more.

I cant recall exactly but pretty sure CBE have several designs to pick from in 9.3. Their website is a little untidy to wade through but they will be there somewhere. They are back ordered several months and I am still waiting for moulds I ordered back in late Oct. If you want something quicker NEI also make 9.3 moulds as do several others makers in the US. They may have something off the shelf whereas CBE make to order.

Trust this helps.

Joe

Does anybody have experience with the NEI .366 moulds -- as far as I understood they take a .35 gas check - not the .375. Is the 35 gas check big enough to seal in a .366 ??

Rgds., Peter

Mountain Molds is now accepting orders.

ronnberg,

yes, they do take the 35 caliber gaschecks.
yes they seem to seal the bore properly. At least I have seen zero leading at up to 2250fps.

Rich
DRSS

NEI does take the 35 caliber checks, but Mountain Molds uses 375 checks. I like the Mountain Molds check fit better, but there's nothing wrong with NEI's eitehr.