New .44 caliber Brooks mold.

[Distant Thunder]

Brooks has already contacted me this morning after I emailed late yesterday and said I did indeed specify a flat base and he said he would try to get the flat base screw out in the mail today. You probably pay a bit more for a Brooks mold but he stands behind them and you can count on the quality when you order.

I would make a screw myself but I’m still in transition between my old shop 10 miles away and my new shop here at home. Right now I don’t have power for my machines at either place and I have no idea when I will have power to the new building. This has been a painfully slow project and is months behind schedule and losing ground. It took a month just to get the overhead door put in and then it’s not the door I ordered! That’s the way it’s been with this. The good thing is that it will be one hell of nice workshop when it’s finished, a lot smaller than my old one but much closer (right outside my door). I can only hope I can make use of it for a long time. I should have done it 2 or 3 years ago. That’s that hindsight thing Gavin noted. Another month and things should be looking pretty good.

Don, yes you are correct about the 2-D bullets and I have some of those left yet and that is one that I sent Steve a picture of for reference. Also I am transitioning to the thinner paper with this mold as you (and others) have suggested and I believe that will be a good thing.

I will post results but probably not until December. Our deer season is only 2 weeks away and I’m busy as can be with this workshop and I need to get out there now and get more done today. Later