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Mustang,

Eliminating your popped heads is easier than you think. I believe I spotted the problem in your first post. Oven annealing won't soften the brass enough. I've been doing it the...

BT, guys,

That style on the left is all I have been making now, for many months, but in a 180 grain version for .40 S&W and 10mm, and with even more lead showing. Of course, I am trimming the 9mm...

Bwana, I couldn't agree with you more. I think these bullets are especially useful because Glock, and other manufacturers, have switched to the polygonal rifling, and there's a lot of differing...

Well Bwana, having reloaded for 52 years now, and swaged jacketed boolits for 25 of those years, I expect I am fairly far down that learning curve road you mention; maybe even further. I stand...

The toughness and thickness of these 9mm cartridge case jackets, even fully annealed, is always going to be a limiting factor, at moderate velocities. The metallurgy is totally different than...

Brian, I'm seeing this thread for the first time at the end of March. Congratulations. I think you are onto the highest and best use for these rather thick, hard jacketed .40 bullets swaged in...

MIBULLETS,

Very interesting, and what you say makes a certain new sense to me. I never thought of it that way. A rebated boat tail would be something of a compromise, giving you the sharp edge...

Not exactly. The reason for a boat tail, rebated or conventional, is to smooth air flow over the rear of the boolit, reducing turbulence and therefore drag, as with an airplane. It makes a very...

Nice groups, BT. The smaller ones, 1" or less, should be the norm at 100 yards, using 55 grainers and the usual twist rate for them. From a machine rest, I think you would have substantially...

Oops! Little "P.S." here. Some of you who start swaging these .22 boolits with BT's dies might get discouraged at first, because of all sorts of problems with wrinkled or folded over noses, and all...

Just catching up on this thread after a few weeks.

To support what Brian has been saying, no, there is no way in the world you are going to shoot out a core because of pressure exerted through an...

Lots of great pics and info above, BT. A different nose punch for my soft lead .40 noses would be good, but I wonder if it could be made to work well? The problem is that it takes a certain amount...

After a long delay, I think I have new information useful to all of you...along with pictures to prove it. BUT I am still having trouble with that, and am not likely to match BT Sniper's photography...

The mailman brought my 9mm/.40 One Step die from BT Sniper this noon, and I quickly made up some boolits for testing tomorrow, as I had 100+ cores seated in annealed 9mm cases. I learned a lot in...

Chris, guys,

If you are willing to invest another step in the process, lightly tighten the un-annealed fired case in a 3-jaw Jacobs chuck, mounted in your small benchtop lathe or drill press. (I...

Hi guys,

I've been sporadically following the site for a few years, and stumbled across this thread while trying to find .40 jackets. I've been swaging for about 30 years, but never .40 caliber. ...

Searching the Internet, just for fun, regarding my Georg Hollow Pointer, I found that virtually nothing existed on it. And that's a shame. But then right here on Cast Boolits, where I was already a...