Some competetive shooters shoot upwards of 10000 per year.
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From: "normanv" <ongata_rongai@yahoo.com>
To: <gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:01 PM
Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: Making bullet molds and casting your own
bullets from scrap...
>I can't understand the obsession with bullets. How many do you need? Who or
>what are you planning to kill?
>
> --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, DENNIS SHELGREN <nojoeco@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> From what I've seen of their products it makes essentially professional
>> grade bullets.
>> They look and work just like commercial jacketed bullets and in some
>> cases
>> perform measurably better.
>> But the trouble I've had is that swaging appeals to those trying to save
>> money, but the marketing and prices are aimed at those trying to make the
>> "perfect bullet".
>> All of my stuff is home made on a mini lathe and mill.
>> I have seen demos of the corbin stuff and used a friends setup to see how
>> it
>> worked and it's very good once setup.
>> I've got a copy of "the other brother's" books on my computer and I don't
>> know where from.
>> He believed that the information should be out there for anyone and that
>> a
>> standard (although heavy duty) reloading press and some hand made dies
>> were
>> all that were necessary.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nick Andrews <nickjandrews@...>wrote:
>>
>> > Corbin is very proud of their stuff. How well does the swaging kit
>> > work?
>> > I
>> > bet they could be made at home, too.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dennis <nojoeco@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Corbin makes bullet swaging dies etc.
>> > > Their "kits" include core molds which make cylinders of whatever
>> > > alloy is
>> > > desired.
>> > > Then the cylinders are put through a simple extruder which is just a
>> > thick
>> > > wall tube and piston with an orifice of the size wire required.
>> > > The swaging presses look like supersized reloading presses, and of
>> > > course
>> > > for more money you can also get automated equipment.
>> > > The real advantage to swaging bullets is of that you are free to add
>> > > jackets of brass or copper.
>> > > I've already got the press tool for making jackets from spent .22's.
>> > >
>> > > Again almost all of this tooling is lathe work. I've used a hydraulic
>> > press
>> > > for anything beyond what a heavy reloading press would do.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, Nick Andrews <nickjandrews@>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Yeah, I do seem to recall that. But where the hell do you get lead
>> > > > wire
>> > > > from?
>> > > >
>> > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Pierre Coueffin <pcoueffin@>wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > My girlfriend's grandfather casts a lot of dwnrigger weights
>> > > > > using
>> > > > > tire-weights. He uses 2-part steel molds, with alignment pins to
>> > > > > keep the halves from shifting. He likes to let the mold heat up
>> > > > > over
>> > > > > the crucible of lead before pouring, to make the lead flow
>> > > > > better.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Did you see the article a year or so back about swaging bullets
>> > > > > from
>> > > > > lead wire in either HSM or MW about a year back? It is very
>> > > > > interesting stuff.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Nick A
>> > > >
>> > > > "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had
>> > > > but a
>> > > > single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975
>> > > >
>> > > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
>> > > > temporary
>> > > safety
>> > > > deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical
>> > > Review
>> > > > of Pennsylvania, 1759
>> > > >
>> > > > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then
>> > > > names
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>> > > > streets after them." Bill Vaughan
>> > > >
>> > > > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil
>> > men."
>> > > > Plato
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>> > --
>> > Nick A
>> >
>> > "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a
>> > single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975
>> >
>> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>> > safety
>> > deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical
>> > Review
>> > of Pennsylvania, 1759
>> >
>> > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names
>> > the
>> > streets after them." Bill Vaughan
>> >
>> > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil
>> > men."
>> > Plato
>> >
>> >
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