Where to buy molds in Canada?
- Thread starter gnmontey
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I have ended up buying direct from the US when nobody had it up here. Wholesale sports has quite a bit of lee molds and some Lyman at times. The reality is that it all come from the US anyways. One guy I do buy custom molds from in Canada is Leo at Boomers Moulds in Regina.
His specialty is the black powder silhouette moulds but he will build just about anything. He is currently making a 9.3 mm plain base mould for a rifle of mine. The cost has been $100 per mould.
His specialty is the black powder silhouette moulds but he will build just about anything. He is currently making a 9.3 mm plain base mould for a rifle of mine. The cost has been $100 per mould.
As in .com or .ca?
I did a google search for the die in question and came up with one ebay hit. The ad was in Spanish (I think?).
The same search listed the Lyman website but that one won't load for some reason?
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www.bomersmoulds.com He will make you a custom mould for the same price as a lyman.
I've bought a couple of moulds in the past from Buffalo Arms in Idaho. They have no problem shipping to Canada and have an exceptionally wide selection. Excellent web site, which only covers about 1/4 of their catalog. If you shoot cast bullets, these are the people to keep on speed dial.
shootist1876
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I'm a little late to this post, but perhaps this will still interest you.
I have owned both the TC .50 and .54 aluminum maxi molds since the 80's. Fine precision molds that fit Lyman or Ohaus handles.
Recently I bought some rooftop chimney pipe lead flashing advertised on Kijiji for about $1.25 per pound.
It is very soft, almost pure lead, and quite suitable for any muzzleloader projectile.
Roofers sell it for beer money, so I am told. Anyway, after casting an entire sheet into balls, I made some calculations, after weighing the balls and all of the debris and trace metals that I skimmed off. I made no attempt to flux any of the trace metals back into the melt, because I wanted them gone, and they floated on top. All of the sprues went back into the melt until the bitter end.
The skimmed off debris and trace metals worked out to about 20% of the weight of the whole, meaning that the actual metal used in the bullets worked out to about $1.50 a pound.
My .490" rifle balls are around 39 to the pound, so that's around $3.85 a hundred.
Pretty cheap compared to swaged lead balls from a store.
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Gentle Ben
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- Location
- Warburg, Alberta
Leo Bumphrey at Boomers Bullet Molds has made several molds for me. $100 each for a single cavity mold, you tell him what you want and he does it up for you. Very happy with the final product, they are well made and will last a lifetime.
http://boomersmoulds.com/
http://boomersmoulds.com/
- Location
- On a sand bar in the Atlantic Ocean.
Track of the Wolf stocks molds for most calibers and ships to Canada fairly cheaply.
I have ordered directly from Lyman a couple of times, unless they have recently chamged their shipping policies you should be good to go to order from them.
