The Lyman/ideal 313445 was designed as a semi-wadcutter for the .32 S&W long cartridge. It has a nice wide wadcutter shoulder that punches nice clean holes in paper, and an elongated nose that improves it’s accuracy beyond about 50 yards. The bullet weighs about 100 grains in most alloys, and is commonly sized to .313 […]
Continue ReadingThe Ideal 31133 Mold is the factory Hollow point version of the 3118 (later 311008). The Hollow point cavity is fairly deep, roughly 2/3 the length of the bullet, and approximately .090 in diameter. I like this bullet cast from a soft binary 8 BHN alloy of lead and tin at about at about 900-1400 […]
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