Might be, but the nose looks longer than the catalog pics.It appears to be the 358073 in mismarked blocks. 358073 is similar to 358072 except hollow base and nose pour.
I have to say that this is most likely a mould for the 38 Maynard or 38 Stevens. The plug is of the style that was used in the early Ideal days. When Lyman bought the company, they tried to use the same plug with pin that didn't work well. Belding and Mull did the same thing. Lyman got all the old Ideal cherries and may have made a run of everything available. FWIW358404 HB appears to have had a short catalogued life, listed in the Ideal Handbooks from 1931 to 1933. I see an internet reference to "Maynard" associated with this mould number, which could refer to one of the 35 Maynard rifle cartridges. That could sort of fit in with this moulds not appearing to have a crimping groove, but I'm wayyyy out of my comfort zone with this one. It doesn't appear to match the .38 Colts pattern either.
Sorry, not much help here.
ETA: Speeling again, gol' dang it!
358404 HB appears to have had a short catalogued life, listed in the Ideal Handbooks from 1931 to 1933. I see an internet reference to "Maynard" associated with this mould number, which could refer to one of the 35 Maynard rifle cartridges. That could sort of fit in with this moulds not appearing to have a crimping groove, but I'm wayyyy out of my comfort zone with this one. It doesn't appear to match the .38 Colts pattern either.
Sorry, not much help here.
ETA: Speeling again, gol' dang it!
I don't. I got my information many, many years back from Doug Elliott. He was always very generous with providing information to people who were really interested in the subject. I'm unaware of any PDFs available outside of the castpics stuff. There are generally a number of older Ideal handbooks listed on ebay, but many of them are really pricey.Do you have an online link to any of them, the manuals? I just found a place that offers reprints, I don't have anything of the Ideal catalogs. https://www.cornellpubs.com/old-guns/item_desc.php?item_id=1473
You can actually save the doc at a PDF to your hard drive, CW.Thanks Tomme bookmarked!!
What was his handle? I've forgotten. Good guy, helped me out on some old stuff too.I don't. I got my information many, many years back from Doug Elliott. He was always very generous with providing information to people who were really interested in the subject. I'm unaware of any PDFs available outside of the castpics stuff. There are generally a number of older Ideal handbooks listed on ebay, but many of them are really pricey.