Thread: Bullets I make

Sorry to say this xring but if that is you in your avatar then you are one ugly mother.

Rifle bullet swagging is something I've started to look into over the past month or so. Yours look very, very nice. Great effort.

I would be more than happy to try some out in my 223Max if you have any spare.

Are you using Corbin dies?

hey Rushy, this is just my father. People say that I am still uglier..
Uplandstalker, 25 for you. Will let you know when they are ready. Still more 50 to go to two people.
And no, I am using Ulrich dies made of carbide. Just like Niemi, Rorschach and a couple others.
CHeers !

Originally Posted by xring

hey Rushy, this is just my father. People say that I am still uglier..
Uplandstalker, 25 for you. Will let you know when they are ready. Still more 50 to go to two people.And no, I am using Ulrich dies made of carbide. Just like Niemi, Rorschach and a couple others.
CHeers !

@R93 sounded keen mate?

Jeez man you put me under the pump... I have 14.5mm from cleanup written on the fridge after our conversation but 15.4 in my head from a pm I can't find...

Jimmynostars, yes mate, 14.5 mm deep in the mold would be best but if its gone 0.9 mm deeper, thats alright as well. These bullets were made with a left over lead wire I had at home.
Gibo, still 50 to go. If you think he may try them out, I keep 25 aside for him.
Cheers

If you have any left, I'd be very interested to try some. I have a very accurate .223 that would do them justice.

cheers

6x47, alright, 25 for you. Just received bullet mould today and will start making them soon. Cheers

Way cool.

I would like to look at making my own 303 FB projectiles, so I can vary the outer diameter to allow for bore wear. So tell me more please...URLs for info on how to do this? URLs for the dies? parts? etc...

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Do you trim meplats to even up bullet OAL? (they look to vary in pics?)

this seems a bit controversial, my 2 cents is. From talking to HBC the meplats make almost no difference to the performance, the biggest issues are the physical centre of the bullet V its centre of gravity and ogive.

So when the bullet is traveling down the barrel its forced to spin around its physical centre line but when it leaves the barrel that transitions to it spinning around its centre of mass line.

The next issue is the ogive and selecting that effects the BC a lot. Nosslers for instance use a tangent ogive and HBCs a secant (I think thats the right way around and spelling!), this translates to 100fps+ more terminal velocity at 1000yds for the HBC on the same charge v Nossler. Or in another way 1 grain more of 2208 is needed to drive a 308w Nossler than a HBC and keep is supersonic. ie 45grain 2208 for HBC and 46gr (or more for the Nossler). 46+ is compressed (especially on competition bullets I think) and the chambers and primers are starting to sulk at that load, brass life is also degrading as the stress is higher.

Horses for courses. On top of this boat tails are cheaper to make and for short (hunting) ranges the advantage seems to be mute. So if you can cast your own bullets or like this make your own flat bases bullets it can be cheaper and cause less bore wear.

Personally I think there is a lot of marketing hype and crap out there in circulation of the gun world, some of it could actually be against us shooters best interests. So the voyage of figuring it out for myself and only listening to ppl I trust continues.

right guys, so I have 75 to go to these people:
- rupert
- uplandstalker
- 6x47

I just ask for my piece of mind to pay for the freight. dont know, around 3 bucks?!
I may be missing someone. if not, 25 still to go. cheers

some more pics of the 50 gr.

PS.: PM your addresses.

Hi Xring,
For the last 18 months I've been wanting to convert fired 22 shells to 55gn .224 using swaging through dies through Ebay/Ushop after seeing it done on TV & Youtube but I don't know where to get the lead wire from in NZ, would you have any pointers?
I'd be keen to try some of those projectiles you're offering to see how they perform compared to any I will make up in the future.
Can you send me the details for the payment?
Thanks in advance,
Phil.

Spanners can help you with that lead wire Phil

You can get lead wire off this company (probably the only one, I think): DLM - Extrusions
Tararua, will send you the bullets. Cheers