On June 17 I posted this on ML forum:
" I picked up the top half of a Parker Hale .58 Minie mold at a gun show last month. Not having the bottom plug I tried my bottom plug from a Lyman 575611PH mold. It was too small.
I have an old 500 grain RCBS Minie mold from which I tried the bottom plug. It fit. Also, I found the RCBS mold screws going through the mold handles and the attached RCBS plug plate plug worked. Makes nice bullets now. When I get a scale that weighs over 500 grains I will find out what weight it casts now.
Does anyone know what weight projectile the Parker Hale 58560 mold is supposed to cast in its original configuration?"
I found that it cast 520 grain projectiles. One response indicated that another N-SSA poster got projectiles of 550 to 560 grains.
Something was amiss!
I sent the mold to RCBS for a new center plug and got it back with a polite note telling me that they never made molds for Parker Hale but that they had fitted an RCBS deep 500 grain base plug to my mold at no charge. Aside from being nice RCBS seemed to think my mold may have been made by Lachmiller for Parker Hale before RCBS bought Lachmiller.
Does anybody know what company made the Parker Hale molds?
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" I picked up the top half of a Parker Hale .58 Minie mold at a gun show last month. Not having the bottom plug I tried my bottom plug from a Lyman 575611PH mold. It was too small.
I have an old 500 grain RCBS Minie mold from which I tried the bottom plug. It fit. Also, I found the RCBS mold screws going through the mold handles and the attached RCBS plug plate plug worked. Makes nice bullets now. When I get a scale that weighs over 500 grains I will find out what weight it casts now.
Does anyone know what weight projectile the Parker Hale 58560 mold is supposed to cast in its original configuration?"
I found that it cast 520 grain projectiles. One response indicated that another N-SSA poster got projectiles of 550 to 560 grains.
Something was amiss!
I sent the mold to RCBS for a new center plug and got it back with a polite note telling me that they never made molds for Parker Hale but that they had fitted an RCBS deep 500 grain base plug to my mold at no charge. Aside from being nice RCBS seemed to think my mold may have been made by Lachmiller for Parker Hale before RCBS bought Lachmiller.
Does anybody know what company made the Parker Hale molds?
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