Mystery Lee bullet...?

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Mystery Lee bullet...?

Post by Maximumbob54 »

What is the one in the top center? It looks like maybe a .30ish caliber round nose tumble lube bullet.

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Interesting. It does look like a Tumble Lube bullet, plain base, with a 2R ogive. Might be a bore rider but nothing listed like this in their product line. :?:
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Lee has made some special molds for group buys could this be one of them? Any markings on the mold?
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Impossible to say with that tiny picture. No way to enlarge it? what does it measure?

Looks like my lee mold for 9mm, a 125 grain tumble lube 2-R round nose.
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snuffy wrote:Impossible to say with that tiny picture. No way to enlarge it? what does it measure?

Looks like my lee mold for 9mm, a 125 grain tumble lube 2-R round nose.
I have a Mac and if I drag the picture to my desktop I can open it in Preview and enlarge most pictures. This one is low resolution but will enlarge a bit for me but I can't identify it.
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Got to be a special order.
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The more I look t that bullet the more it looks like the 500 gr. 45-70 bullet. I had one if those moulds, the bullet was very accurate in an H & R rifle.
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Post by Fyodor »

Your picture looks very similar to the one left of the bullet in question. Have a closer look in the top middle one again.
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Post by Steelbanger »

Oops, another error on my part. Have some mercy on me please as I'm having a bad week. Lee has had some discontinued bullet styles over the years and I bet that is one of those or as RD suggested, a special ordered one.
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Post by mikld »

The one sitting between the mold halves top center is more interesting to me. Looks big. .44, .45 cal., old style wadcutter, shot gun slug?
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