The Lee 6 cavity 38/357 mold came in today. I cleaned, and smoked it and tried it out. With the RCBD iron mold, keeping the lead right around 700 seemed to work best. With the Lee aluminum mold, I had to keep the lead at 800+ deg to get good bullets. The first couple dozen went back in the pot until I git the temps worked out. I would get on a roll, then the bullets would come out extra frosty so I had to let the mold cool a bit.
Quite a few of the bullets would have a section of frostiness on one side only.
I ordered the Lee sizer kit for the 45 cal bullets. In the interim, I loaded up some of the bullets ahead of 8.5 grains of Shooters World Ultimate Pistol. It is a nice accurate easy shooting load, but I have to crank down the Lee FCD to get them to chamber completely and allow the cylinder to rotate. I am hoping the sizer kit will ease the loading issues. Didn't have the problem with the older Blackhawk with the looser chambers.
