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36 cal brass mold
« on: October 24, 2016, 04:10:35 AM »
36 cal brass mold. Anyone recognize this mold as specific to a pistol?

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Re: 36 cal brass mold
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2016, 02:45:14 PM »
I believe that such brass blank molds were commercially available to the trade in the percussion period for gunmakers to cut the bullet design of their need. I doubt that you will ever marry the mold to a specific gun or gunmaker, but it is fun to look. I have an identical,but uncut, piece that I got 50+ years ago from an old collector along with some Civil War stuff.
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Re: 36 cal brass mold
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2016, 03:55:33 PM »
36 Colt Navy maybe? Very common 36 cal pistol.
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Re: 36 cal brass mold
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2016, 04:16:44 PM »
OLUT, that makes sense.  Mine is a 36 and the other one that looks just like it is a 31 caliber.
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Re: 36 cal brass mold
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2016, 07:59:57 PM »
Back in the 1960's, I bought a nice Rem 1858 .44 c&b revolver.  I got a brass mold with it like the one pictured.  It threw a good round ball and a good conical; unfortunately it is now long gone.
 
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Re: 36 cal brass mold
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2016, 03:11:45 AM »
These molds, brass and steel, were most often used with a pistol, sometimes a pistol and rifle. They were sometimes in the same caliber and sometimes in different calibers. I have one like yours, in steel, that is marked "Colt".
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