Just cleaned my new mold

[Wayne52]

It's the 217-30-FN-B-J5 in brass with the Lyman hollow point pin.  Right now I've got some pre-smelted lead heating along with the mold and the ladle, it won't be long now and I'll be casting some hollow points for my Airmax Dominator.  I've got high hopes for the combination.

                                       

I'll be posting some pictures soon

[KnifeMaker]

Watching!

[Tommyzgunz]

nice. Somewhere in the future I certainly would love to cast my own pellets/slugs, etc.

[Wayne52]

Well it took me a little while to get the HP pin in the right spot but I think I finally got it whipped, they're coming out at 28.2 grains average and they should shoot decent but won't know for sure until I try them in my Airmax Dominator.  That'll be a couple days away because of the rain we're getting.

even made a neat fuzzy border for the picture

[Nvreloader]

Wayne

Lookin good, will be waiting for your results etc.   
What alloy mix, from the same bar as the others?

Any chance of showing what a Lyman pin is for HPing?
 
Never seen one before, I have always drilled my HP's etc.

Tia,
Don

[screwwork]

Looks really good! Now to see how the shoot.

[Wayne52]

Wayne

Lookin good, will be waiting for your results etc.   
What alloy mix, from the same bar as the others?

Any chance of showing what a Lyman pin is for HPing?
 
Never seen one before, I have always drilled my HP's etc.

Tia,
Don

Don there was a little tin in the mix because there were four ingots that I made with copper shot glass's a while back and I added one shot glass ingot's to what was in the pot with pure lead, probably about .3% tin at the most.

Here's a picture of the Lyman pin, it's blurry but you can get the idea of how it works.

[Nvreloader]

Wayne

Thank you for that info,

I can see, IF we can get AL to make a 2-4 cavity HP with RG pins,
it would be a lot easier to use than the Lyman style.

I think, I'll wait for the RG type of mold.   

Tia,
Don

[K.O.]

Can't wait to see results... some report their best accuracy with the hollow points...

[Kinetic45^]

Wayne

Thank you for that info,

I can see, IF we can get AL to make a 2-4 cavity HP with RG pins,
it would be a lot easier to use than the Lyman style.

I think, I'll wait for the RG type of mold.   

Tia,
Don

I'm a big fan of Al at NOE but I got tired of waiting on the small RG pins and just accepted the cost and bought the regular NOE molds and sent them to Eric at http://www.hollowpointmold.com/
I've got some Cramer style and some InsetBar style, not better than the RG just different... Each require a slightly different mold temp and casting technique and each needs different handling to drop the bullets but they all work.
On my BBT 4 cavity I went with the Cramer because I could set each cavity for HP or FP where the bar system you just tend to leave it 'as is' for however many cavities you had done.
On the big bores from mold mfg who don't HP I use the bar system for the conversion

[Wayne52]

Carl have you got a picture of that mold with the RG pins I'd like to see what they look like on the inside

[KnifeMaker]

Carl, Eric will make a set of fp pins for your  at the same time as the HP set-up. I don't know the extra cost, but it is less than the actual HP service.


Mike

[Hobbyman2007]

Come on Wayne , we’re waiting for the results . I trashed my mold no too long ago by overtemp , gonna check if I can get my local machine shop to deck the mold down . Hope it put out pellets that still shoot well .

[Wayne52]

I just put ten shots over the chrony and my average fps was 784.64fps with my 28.2 grain HP BBT's

1.   769.0   37.03fpe     6.   800.0   40.08fpe
2.   772.2   37.48fpe     7.   802.1   40.29fpe
3.   777.7   37.88fpe     8.   780.3   38.13fpe
4.   772.3   37.35fpe     9.   798.1   39.89fpe
5.   804.2   40.50fpe     10. 770.5   37.18fpe

average fpe38.56

[Back_Roads]

 I did not run mine across the crono yet, but did a quick 5 shot group from a kneeling hunting stance at 30 yards except for the 1st shot that was my bad the remaining 4 shots were right on target.
 These BBT HP and fn slugs are the bomb !

[Wayne52]

It was a really windy day yesterday but I did get out and shoot the hollow points and I'm very happy with them. Put it this way it's much more accurate than I am when I'm hunting.

[Back_Roads]

 Just some FYI for those following, I have been shooting these  unsized out of an AT 44 .22 @ 40 FPE stock settings with 25 usable hunting shots, and the same approx with my modified Sentry .22
 BTW nice videos as always Wayne

[Wayne52]

I've never sized them myself, they shoot fine from most of my guns but they don't fit my Liberty or Freedom.

[Wayne52]

Being the hollow point is a little lighter they fly a little faster than the flat nose which is a good advantage for accuracy.  My Dominator is very quiet too which makes good power too.  With these hollowpoints I think the Dominator has a better diet.

[Bob Pratl]

Wayne do you find that the hollow points are more accurate than the flat nose ones?