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This is the new paddletail. This is a dandy mold. Mine arrived about 40 minutes ago and was 23 degrees when I got the wrapper off. Since I was messing with all of the colors you see in these guys, I sat right back down and tried a couple two colors in that ice cold mold. Shot beautifully! I wasn't too careful removing the chartreuse tails so don't jump on that.
The mold is very well vented and for shooting I am going out on a limb here and say that this is maybe the easiest mold I have ever shot. I did 8 molds of chartreuse just so I could play with two colors. Ice cold I had no issues in those 8 shots. I trimmed half of the shots with the baits in the mold and the other half by pulling the bait entirely and cutting on my board and then re-inserting the tails as needed. It is actually easier to do out of the mold. The only point that needs mention about putting the tails back into the mold is to use a qtip or a small pointed hobby paintbrush dipped in worm oil and use it to lube the tail button slots a bit and then watch to be certain that the other side of the button goes into its respective slot as you close the mold. If one balks, its easy to use a toothpick. skewer or the paintbrush handle to tease the edge into the slot while the mold is partially closed. This isn't a distraction at all and basically every mold I own with a wedge or button paddletail needs to be coaxed at some point. Its a no-sweat thing.
As mentioned, the mold shoots very smoothly. Just a small top-off and let cool. With the mold heated up after six shots, I waited only one minute to pull the baits and did not have any denting issues. In this particular mold some shoot-thru was apparent at the vents and a couple small tits of plastic were present when the baits came out of the mold. A purple one can be seen in the picture just under the top orange bait. Most of the shots had none of these and when the plastic got re-heated and the mold quite hot is when I noticed the couple I found. I used two clamps and did not have any flask occur even when I tried to get flash to happen.
