Reeder Custom Guns - Did a little casting this morning ...

The weather has cooled off nicely and mornings like this are great to run the lead pot! I started off with an old mold that I have had for years. It is an old IDEAL mold in #454190 ... Ideal's version of the original .45 Colt bullet. I got the mold many many years ago. It had been mistreated and I felt it deserved a good home. It is still kinda difficult to use. The bullets don't drop out easily and now I am having difficulty with the sprue plate. It's either too tight or too loose. I know how to fix it and am gonna work on it today when it cools off.

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The second mold I used is an RCBS 44-250-KT which is RCBS's version of the Keith .44 SWC. I bought this mold new back in the 1980's. It drops good bullets almost from the first pour. The bullet come out of the mold easily and everything works just fine. A real joy to use.

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I did not cast a lot of bullets today ... I am not short on any so it's not a priority. But I do like to stay ahead.

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back in February while visiting my Mom who was quite ill at the time. The problem being, all I had was a .451" sizer die at the time and that made them too small for my Rugers. :-( Need to cast some more up and either do a .452" size/lube or pan lube them and load as cast.

I keep telling myself I need to pick up one of those 44-250-KT molds or something similar. Just never have cast for 44 but now I've got that Bisley 44 SPL that needs fed. In the meantime Creeker set me up with a bunch of his Keith 44's.

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Did a little casting this morning ...

I cast a bunch of those 454190's

RCBS KEITH IS EXCELLENT

It's the only bullet I load in the 44 Special anymore.