im casting with straight ww's and out of a lee bottom pour pot. the moulds are lyman 45cal in the 457125 500gr and the 457643 400gr boolits.
at first i had very wrinkled boolits and threw em back till everything got warmed up and started to get shiney boolits. i cast around 30 of the 400's and around 20 500's. went inside to weigh and found a wide variance of around 2 to 3 grains in both 4 and 5 hundred gr's. also the diameter is on the small size being 457 to 4575 for the 400's and for the 500's im getting 4575 to 458 diameter. i summed it up as being a newby and settled on loading them and shooting them just to feel the soul of these boolits.
all was fine till i meassured the oal of more then the first two of my loaded shells...this being varried in the 20th varriance in length. now i was puzzeled so i went back to the bench to meassure my remaining boolits....found that here was my diff in length.
after thinking and reading about casting and the larger boolits i settled on maybe the answer to my puzzel. i ordered a lyman dipper pot and a dipper to dip pour my moulds. hopefully this will solve the differences in my cast boolits.
what say yee???