My David Mos mold showed up on my door step yesterday, and 30 minutes after getting home I was pouring my first .22 boolits. Tricky little mold to keep up to temperature, but the 50 I cast are perfect little pills showing no parting lines or defects. They drop from the mold at .225" This is the mold group buy that W30WCF put together earlier in the year.
My initial idea was to tumble lube them, but not having any on hand I decided to take advantage of the little lube grooves and pan lube them with my usual BPCR lube. Pan lubing these little guys was surprisingly easy, and the lube took to the grooves nicely. The rest of the boolit has a nice waxy feeling to it from being handled in the process. Here's the 50 lubed up next to the Armscor primed cases I picked up earlier in the year.
I used the tip of a pen as a flaring tool to just barely put a flare in the case, then filled the case to the brim with Swiss 4f black powder. A weighing confirms 4.5 grains of 4f as previously reported by W30WCF. The little boolit is then pressed on top and slid into the .225 hole of my Paco Accurizer. I have my Schmidt arbor press adjusted so the stroke is the finished bullet length. A quick ram home seats the boolit and swages the flared case to a tight seal. The Paco tool works really nice for this application, but I need to make a proper plunger so I dont get the dimple on the boolit nose from the Paco Nastinose punch. I had the 50 loaded up in short order ready to be tested. All in all - several hours invested in loading up 50 finished rounds start to finish. Not something you want to run through your 10/22 in 60 seconds, but really nice match ammo I intend to use for the BPCR .22 long range matches at Pala, and I will be the only one there actually shooting a BPCR .22 ...