Favorite Hensley & Gibbs Bullet Moulds

Everyone has a favorite something in their hobby. For bullet moulds, especially the Hensley & Gibbs Bullet moulds I own, I certainly have some favorites.

I rarely attend a shooting session that doesn’t involve .38 Special wadcutters. And that means design number 50, the button tip 146 grain wadcutter.

The mould I tend to use the most is a six cavity plain base #50 pictured below:

I’ve used 10 cavity moulds in the past, and I do sometimes use them when I need to make a lot of bullets quickly in a short amount of time. But 90% of the time these days I used that six cavity mould to make my wadcutters.

As you can see from my hollow point page, I like playing around with hollow point moulds. My favorite for pistol caliber has to be the #503 Plain Base for .44 Mag and the #86 30-30 mould for my Winchester 94:

Hensley & Gibbs #503 Plain Base

Hollow Point Mould

And…

Hensley & Gibbs #86 30-30

Rifle Bullet Hollow Point Conversion

For .45ACP, I started off with a 8 cavity design #34 in bevel base and shot thousands and thousands of those bullets over the years. Gradually I came to like the #68 plain base better. There was nothing the 34 could do that the 68 couldn’t do at my range sessions. So over time I switched over to the Crawford designed #68 in plain base:

Hensley & Gibbs six cavity plain base mould…

The above mould is in my collection and it gets used quite a bit. It heats up fast and almost immediately produces great looking and performing bullets.

To be continued…