Gary Reeder
Was that the mold he advertised as 310 or 330?
Friday, December 19, 2025, 20:28

I had a large amount of linotype back then, so my bullets came out as about 310 to 320. Like you said my bullets with mostly linotype leaded pretty bad. I used a lot of wheel weights and linotype. In my Smiths it was a good bullet right at 275 to 280. Something about that mold bothered me so I put it on here and sold it. Probably the fact that I had to size them, which I hate.

I was shooting a lot back then. I was still in radio and had the morning show so I was out of there by 1PM. I was also partner in a gun shop at the same time so every chance I had I was out back shooting. The model 29 I was shooting was the same gun I had been using for 8 or 10 years so I sent it back to Smith every year or so for new guts. Some of my loads were a bit hot and battered the model 29 a bit so I had to keep giving it a break every year or so.