I had a few more culls than usual due to my unwillingness to wait, and the below freezing conditions of my casting cranny in my garage. It didn’t take long for my pile of peas to grow, as they were dropped five at a time. The mold behaved beautifully and dropped bunches of bullets as fast as shucking peas. Being anxious and impatient, I started casting anyway. The energy-sapping cold sucked the heat right from my RCBS casting furnace, causing a delay in proper temperature to both mold and alloy to drop decent slugs.

The outside temperature was in the low teens and my garage was holding steady at 20 degrees during my first session. Full, well-filled out bullets are the norm. I also dabbed the alignment pins to prevent any future binding during the separation of the mold halves.Ĭasting with an Arsenal Mold is a breeze. A little dab of wax from a birthday candle lubed the moving part and the sprue-plate swung as fun and freely as a chimp in the Congo River belt. In fact, as the mold heated up, the sprue-plate started to bind a bit, due to expansion from the heat. Stylish vent lines, steel reinforced alignment-pin holes and are stamped with theirĭuring my first casting session with the Arsenal Mold, there was no loosening of the sprue-plate bolt - the demon for deformed cast bullet bases - which is not uncommon with lesser-made molds. I was in luck, as they had one in stock.Īrsenal Mold’s are lathe-bored beauties featuring perfectly polished cavities, Being a fan of multi-cavity bullet breeders, I ordered Arsenal’s aluminum 5-cavity mold. 32 caliber 98-grain Keith style slug caught my eye.

Arsenal Molds is a machine shop making bullet molds for the past six years. While cruising the Internet the other day, I stumbled across a fairly new mold maker I’d never heard of. Molds multiply faster than any calculator when one is bit with the casting bug. It’s why we cast! Having different molds is having the means to bring birth to a new style, weight, diameter and purpose to the many different calibers we make bullets for. To say casters like bullets is an understatement. Bullet molds, the caster’s-contraption to convert lead alloy into lead ammunition, are addictive, to say the least.

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