Swaging bullet

[Franky Sniper]

I would like to start make my own bullet by swaging methot. My problem is I can't buy component from USA Corbin told me. The lead and jacket can't be ship to Canada. Do some canadian use that method to make there bullet if so where do you buy the component.
Thanks everyone.

 

[Lionel]

There's a guy in the internet somewhere that swages down pistol brass to make bullets for rifles. He uses 9mm for 30 cal and whatnot.

BTSniper is who he is, and he sells kits for swaging. I don't know if he ships to Canada, but you can look him up and ask.

I think that there was someone who made jacket casings out of water softener copper lines, or something similar, but accuracy was not the best. Problems with concentricity that the copper line manufacturer wasn't too concerned with when they made the copper line in the first place...

There's a section in CastBoolits where some people have made their own kit for swaging, some by drilling a hole through a grade 8 bolt and honing it smooth, and others who do some very good work with a lathe and tool steel.

Hope this helps. I don't swage, yet. I'm still in the melting lead and wrapping it in paper stage and haven't progressed to the swaging stage. Yet

 

[Holleyman]

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[yodave]

Corbin has the swager that uses 22 LR brass and lead to make .224 bullets. I have used many of them and the shoot quite respectably. I believe the tooling is quite expense however.

it takes a long time to recover the initial costs of the set up, the flip side is that you shoot more. I can tell you from first hand experience that it takes a long time to make 100 30 cal jackets from copper tubing, and it takes a bit of time to turn 1000 fired 22 shells into bullet jackets

 

[MRP]

That's how RCBS ( rock chuck bullet swage ) got started. Think big and maybe we can order from you. ?

 

[*MALICE*]

Many years ago I made my own dies to make .223 bullets out of .22lr cases.

The short version is that it's A LOT of work, and unless your time is worth nothing, or you just REALLY like doing it, it's way more cost/time effective to buy your bullets. And that was factoring in that I made my own dies. YMMV

 

[Boolitcaster]

I should be receiving my draw dies from BT in the next month. I placed my order 8 months ago.
These dies will draw 5.56 brass down to make jackets for my 30s.
Later, I will get the core seat and point forming dies to complete 303 bullets, which is my first goal.

This is going to be a money loser from the get go, but hey, I just like to play with my toys.