Looking at mold designs

[The_Shadow]

Intercooler and I have been swapping info about various bullet designs.  The Mountain Mold company has a online design program which you can design your own mold.  Here is what I came up with as I manipulated the design parameters.
http://www.mountainmolds.com/

200 grain PLAIN BASE two lube grooves
Diameter 0.4020"
Total bullet length 0.6300"
Olgive Length 0.2650" (that should have the bullet seated with that much outside the casing with a C.O.A.L. of 1.2500"-1.2550" based on a casing length of 0.9900")
Meplat 0.28944"

[Intercooler]

I thought the magic number was a Meplat >.300"?

[The_Shadow]

0.3000" Yea kind of...  This one is not that far from that and may feed better.  But if you want 0.3000" you just increase to 75%.

0.4020" X 0.75 = 0.3015"

[mag360]

We want meplat we want meplat yeah!

[The_Shadow]

200 grain PLAIN BASE two lube grooves
Diameter 0.4020"
Total bullet length 0.6270"
Olgive Length 0.2650" (that should have the bullet seated with that much outside the casing with a C.O.A.L. of 1.2500"-1.2550" based on a casing length of 0.9900")
Meplat 0.3015"
Ok here you can see there isn't much difference...0.4020" X 0.75 = 0.3015"

[Pinsnscrews]

Veryl (sp?) says and cuts his molds with a 90% of bore diameter meplat
http://www.lbtmoulds.com

[sqlbullet]

I will have to take some measurements on my mountain mold 205 grain pills, but I think they are pretty close to your specs:

[Pinsnscrews]

I still want 225-240gr 

[ShadeTreeVTX]

I would like to find a cast bullet 200 and 220 gr with no lube groves ( making it shorter - more room for powder - with a shallow hollow point in it ) than I could powder coat it. Dont want much do I

Doug

[The_Shadow]

They can be made that way, those would be very easy Nose profiled 0.4000" drill bit and drill your own mold blocks or even older worn or damaged blocks...

[sqlbullet]

Like the man says, just drill 'em out.

http://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/01075696

[Pinsnscrews]

I also want a "Cup/Dish" nose. Since the plan is to use them for Deer, Elk, and Feral Hogs. It helps broaden the wound tract without losing penetration.

[ShadeTreeVTX]

NoNoNo - I don't want to get back into casting bullets again - I'm too lazy for that again - I'ed rather buy them and cut out the hard part all together.  To be truthful, I hated casting with a passion. I did it for years back in the 70's - moved toGa in the 80's got rid of all my casting equipment when I moved down south, I gave my friend about 600lbs of lead bars and all my equipment, swore I;d never get back into it again.

Doug

[Marc]

I recently bought this 210 gr TC mold made by Palmetto.

[The_Shadow]

Very Nice looking mold, If you wanted just a little more weight you could have the bevel base cut to make it a squared base.