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Months ago I bought a Lyman bullet mold..457125. I cast bullets from different alloys and every bullet's nose was way to big to even fit in the bore. I thought I had done something wrong ,being relatively new to all this black powder stuff.

I had bought the book Black Powder cartridge reloading primer By Venturino and Garbe and remembered something about that mold number. I opened the book up and there it was..something to the effect that Lyman Sometimes gets the dimensions a little off.

I contacted Lyman, they agreed to send me another mold and it finally came in a few days ago. I molded some bullets out of 20 to 1 and they were PERFECT! The bore riding nose fits with NO wobble.

Every time I get stuck on something reference black powder shooting I find articles written by Mike Venturino. No BS, NO ego, his information is something I can always trust and count on.

Ly man sent an apology e-mail, a new mold and told me I could keep the old one. GREAT service during all this pandemic stuff.

glen,
i'll bet that the nose that appears to ride the bore before you shoot it will have rifling marks in it if you recover a fired version of it.
a ticking time bomb waiting to give you leading.
bruce.

That's logical Bruce. I'll shoot a few next week and keep an eye on it.