Who's Your Favorite Mold Manufacturer Past and Present

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pat i. posted this 31 December 2023

Here's mine

1) LBT/Mos

2) Accurate

3) Noe

4) RCBS

5) A Distant Everything Else

I haven't used every mold company"s product but this list more than covers my needs.

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RicinYakima posted this 01 January 2024

1: Hoch 2: NEI (when Walt ran it) 3: LBT 4: Cramer 5: SAECO

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mashburn posted this 01 January 2024

1--RCBS--All of mine are old except one, and I am yet to use the new one.

2--NOE

3--Lyman and Ideal. some are better than others.

4--Lee

Happy New Years 2024

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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Ed Harris posted this 01 January 2024

When I retired and down sized into smaller quarters out in the country I sold off all of my mass-produced molds and started over, having Tom at Accurate make custom molds for my of my own designs for the calibers I shoot.

The only exceptions are four NOE molds of standard designs having diameters tweaked to my needs, and a CBE mold for the 2-groove .303 No.4 Long Branch.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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4and1 posted this 14 January 2024

Hoch single cavity pre Colorado. It takes 2 or 3 casts and it's up to temp, and I can't cast fast enough to get a frosted bullet. Weigh sorting these are a waste of time. And it's a nose pour.

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Boschloper posted this 01 January 2024

Lyman single cavity.

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Bud Hyett posted this 01 January 2024

I'm inventorying my production molds for sale because my son wants me to clean out the reloading shed. I have possibly 80 molds now that I am inventorying. When done, there will be the following remaining in order of preference:

John Schauf: .32 and .30
Eagan molds: 6mm
Mos: .25
Ohaus: 44-245-KT (three cavity)
Several NOE pistol
SAECO: #954 .45 (revolver and pistol), #1881 (black powder) , #315 (.30 Herrett Long Range Pistol), #243
RCBS: 30-180-SP (nostalgia), 7mm-168-SP, 7mm-168-FN, 243-095-SP, 35-200-FN

Gone will be the Lyman and Lee molds that I have.

Farm boy from Illinois, living in the magical Pacific Northwest

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Rich/WIS posted this 01 January 2024

NOE and Lee (6 cavity). Good designs, work like they should and in the case of Lee prices I can afford.

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sluggo posted this 01 January 2024

1-- NOE, 2-- MP, 3-- RCBS, 4-- Lyman (older)

Wishing everyone a healthy and wealthy new year.

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linoww posted this 07 January 2024

Here's mine 1) LBT/Mos 2) Accurate 3) Noe 4) RCBS 5) A Distant Everything Else I haven't used every mold company"s product but this list more than covers my needs.

I would add Eagan somewhere between one and two.

But I have to agree every LBT mold I have ever used has been perfect ,that sprue design is phenomenal.

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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linoww posted this 12 January 2024

I hate H&G molds!

But seriously, I sold all of these off and did like Mr. Harris and replacd them with accurate Aluminum moulds that fit my particular guns. Much easier to handle than these big pigs.

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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Sevenfan posted this 18 January 2024

I'm quite new to casting, dropped my first boolits just a couple years ago. Of the molds I've acquired to date I'd have to say RCBS, MP, NOE, and Lyman in that order. Shuz let me borry a couple SAECOs and they were nice. Cast my first boolits Apr '21 and down the rabbit hole I went.

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Eddie Southgate posted this 13 February 2024

Lyman / Ideal

Modern Bond

Hensley & Gibbs

Noe

NEI

LBT - but I don't own one myself.

Prefer old Lyman or Modern Bond handles to any others. Was in the process of making an order from LBT when they had the fire so I will most likely never own the mold of Veral's that I wanted, it's an odd ball . Got some Winchester molds that I like a lot.

Grumpy Old Man With A Gun......Do Not Touch .

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Fitzpatrick posted this 01 January 2024

1) Hoch

2) Paul Mathews

3) NOE

4) Accurate

5) Saeco

6) RCBS (American Made)

7) Lyman

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Idahocaster posted this 01 January 2024

Most of my mold are Lyman/Ideal or Lee, but I do have a few others. My favorite manufacturers from the ones I have used are:

RCBS - I have a 357 semi-wadcutter mold that drops perfect bullets from the first cast almost every time. The 200 grain 30 caliber silhouette mold is almost as easy to use.
NOE - I only have one, a custom 200 grain for the Hungarian 8x56R.
Lyman/Ideal
Lee

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Shuz posted this 02 January 2024

1 MP MOLDS brass in 4 cavity hollow points

2 Saeco

3 RCBS

4 Lee 6 cavity

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Eutectic posted this 03 January 2024

Past: Hensley and Gibbs hands down the best for pistol molds, Eagan for rifles.

I should have bought more of these when I had the chance.

Present: Accurate, Tom has replaced older Lyman and others to get similar designs which cast the correct diameters.

SAECO molds are nice but pricey.

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Urny posted this 04 January 2024

Past maker would be a toss-up between Ideal and Cramer. There are some Modern Bond and Belding & Mull out there in the blue barn, but not favorites, and my only H&G is an unsatisfactory copy of the old Sqibb bullet. Those are the only old makers I have experience of.

Of present makers the ones I have used and liked best have been Lyman and NOE. Other present makers such as RCBS and Lee have run about 50/50 good to not so good,

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pat i. posted this 04 January 2024

the lbts and alum noes are just glorified overpriced lee 6 cav if you as me.

Lol. You must have had some really good Lee molds. I don't beat up my molds so surviving the nuke test for me is a moot point

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Tom Acheson posted this 04 January 2024

1. Paul Jones

2. Steve Brooks

3. Don Eagan

4. LBT

5. Saeco

6. RCBS

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jtcarm posted this 10 January 2024

Was starting to wonder when H&G would be mentioned.

I’d have to say: Accurate Hensley & Gibbs (#244 wadcutter) MP. I have a 6-cavity HG68 clone & an 8-cavity SAECO 348 clone (.38 DEWC) that positively rain beautiful bullets practically from the first cast when properly pre-heated. Just wish the .38s dropped a little smaller (they’re .360.)

In another life I owned some LBTs which were awesome. Sad to see Veral leaving the business.