... Why the hollow point?
I thought that if I used hard alloy I would need to assist the expansion a bit. I have made a trial mold that casts nose up with an intergral gas check and I use a punch to plug the hole that also makes a hollow in the nose. (The bullet is pushed out the bottom of the mold and goes through a sizer to remove the slight shank taper). I have only loaded up one round so far. The bullet is seated in a paper patch. The bullet and neck is dipped into molten wax/lube and allowed to drip off. So the bullet is coated with lube and has a lubed paper patch and a GC. The powder charge is the starting load with Varget. Expected MV is around 2200fps. We'll see what happens.
I am planning on dropping the hollow point in favor of a sprue cutter - too difficult to maintain the correct temperature with the punch arrangement.
