Varmint bullet advice

[Cleftwynd]

Lol, you don't melt it, you form it in a die to make a jacket. Look up swaging, you'll get the idea.

 

[trevj]

I am having a hard time visualizing this idea. I was thinking you meant to melt down the rimfire brass, make a jacket? Am i way off here?

Ayup. Waaaaaayyyyy off!

Go to the castboolits forum, scroll down to the swaging sub-forum, and read through the bullets from rimfire sticky.

Guys are making swaged bullets for their handguns and rifles using other calibers for the jacket material. 9mm brass makes a pretty good .40 bullet.

Cheers
Trev

 

[joe-nwt]

Another vote for the SPSX.

 

[slicknick]

My old man has been using 50gr SPSX in his .222 since at least the eighties. They make little bitty groups and ensure an impressive display of chow mein when they hit.

 

[Cleftwynd]

Sounds like I need to order some SPSX doesn't it.

Thanks guys.

 

[jdman]

Ayup. Waaaaaayyyyy off!

Go to the castboolits forum, scroll down to the swaging sub-forum, and read through the bullets from rimfire sticky.

Guys are making swaged bullets for their handguns and rifles using other calibers for the jacket material. 9mm brass makes a pretty good .40 bullet.

Cheers
Trev

very cool. cheers, interesting stuff. where do you get lead wire?

 

[Canadian_Zuk]

very cool. cheers, interesting stuff. where do you get lead wire?

Some guys just use plumbing solder.

 

[trevj]

very cool. cheers, interesting stuff. where do you get lead wire?

You can cast cores, using a core mold, you can buy the wire already extruded, or you can jerry rig a extruding die and make it yourself with a big enough hydraulic press.

However you go about it, you end up running the cores through a die that extrudes off a small amount of the lead to make them all the same uniform weight and size. If you want to get consistency, anyways.
For the most part, if you use other than pure lead, you start running in to issues with the pressures (which are high to begin with) required to form the core in the cup.

A lot of the guys using cases to make handgun bullets are simply using a bullet mold to cast a lead bullet that is then dropped into the case and used as a core.

Cheers
Trev