kcofohio & derek45, you both chose excellent molds to cast with/use. Both molds use the traditional/original keith equal drive bands making a long bullet. There has been a lot of variations of this bullet over the decades. I'm using 1 such variation, namely that cramer #26 that posted pictures of above in post #5. It's the 4th bullet from the left in the top row.
I kept that cramer #26 version of the keith bullet because if you look at it you can see that the top 2 drive bands are smaller then the bottom drive band/bullet base. This makes the oal of the bullet shorter. When keith designed his bullet it was for the 38/44 and when the 357mag came out you had to crimp that bullet over the front drive band to use it in the shorter cylindered s&w n-frame revolvers.
Cramer designed the #26 so that a traditional crimp can be used (in the crimp groove) for the n-frame/357mags of the day. They did this by shortening the 2 front drive bands making the bullet .680" long compared to the keith design of .740"
I run 586's/686's so the bullet's length doesn't matter. Both of you are running long cylindered revolvers and rifles which makes those bullet molds of yours worth their weight in gold.
Not mine, I got this from another website. A picture of the different designs keith did for his swc bullets.
That cramer mold mimics the rare keith "short" hp bullet. The big difference between the two:
The keith still has full value drive bands and a short nose/short hp (280" hp nose).
The cramer uses shorter front drive bands to make a full value hp (.340" hp nose)
Anyway it's good to have and use such an excellent bullet design (
My hat's off to both of you). As you get to know the ins & outs of the bullet thru use. You end up with heck of a base of knowledge to draw from. You'll look at different designs/versions of that bullet in a different way.