DutchmanDick
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Has anybody heard of a "Challenger" brand bullet mold? I just bought a used (but excellent condition) Challenger brand Minie ball mold from www.thegunworks.com for my original P1853 Enfield. It is supposed to cast a 505 grain, .580 diameter "old style" Minie (I got the .580 because my musket's bore is oversized - a .575 drops right down a clean bore with no ramrod pressure). The mold blocks are aluminum and it has a permanently mounted cavity pin like a Lee or a Rapine mold does, and it came with handles. Unlike the Lee molds, the metal part of the handles appears to be cast of some sort of alloy (or maybe cast iron?) and the hinge is held together by a roll pin. It is good and tight, though, and opens and closes fairly smoothly with no slop in it. Overall is LOOKS like a well-made mold. The people at The Gun Works told me Challenger made molds in the 1970's and 1980's. I've just never heard of them.