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Well, the instructions on most things that are explosive say 'store in a cool dry place". That seems to be a cool dry place. While I don't think this will actually be a problem, you may want to call...

I have accidentally made a few nasty hollowpoints in the past when my nose punch shattered and left a really jagged edge on the punch, which was then jammed into the front of the bullet.

There are...

Which press do you have? the big turret press?

Realistically, the only die I'm interested in is the rifle die. I'll have to figure out a price if you're interested.

So I just tried out the dies, a little bit anyways. The point forming die does a very good job of forming the point. However, it does a really bad job of letting the bullet come out of the point...

So I was at one of the local reloading stores today and came accross a .50 cal ammo can ominously marked "swage". I asked the shop owner how much for the package, and he said he hadn't gone through...

WC846 pretty much is BL-C2.

Given the following:
M855 loads up with 26.1grs of WC844 (62gr bullet) 3025FPS@78ft
M193 loads up with 28.5grs of WC844 (55gr bullet) 3155FPS@15ft

M80 ball loads...

I have been looking for this book for over a year. As far as I can tell there is only one copy in a library, at Ft. Sill OK. Which i can't get via ILL. I already made most of the tooling to draw...

RRR,

So from what I can gather you used a barrel plating process (this is essentially what I was planning to do, but hadn't heard of that before, but figured that was the way to do it) did you...

RRR,

Very cool! What did you use to render the slug? I've been trying to find something that will do that for a while without much luck. As far as barrel plating, this is what I was planning. But...

Perhaps this will clarify what I'm talking about. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7680&stc=1&d=1212420476

The idea is to make a bullet and then I'm also working on a...

Swagerman,

Yea, I've seen it, and think it's pretty cool. Unfortunately knowing what size hole to drill in the side of the die is keeping me from completing it, so your unit will never do me any...

Personally, i catch most of the splits when I'm lubing up the brass. There is a very different sound when you are moving the brass around. I lube using a set of rubber gloves sprayed with lube, so...

So I'm working on my first set of swage dies (that I've built) and I'm trying to work out some of the math. This is going to be a .308" 6-S ogive bullet with a large meplate for shooting in my .308...

So I feel as though I'm something of a late commer to this thread, but I've been working on some GC tools of my own. I have a duro machine 2-ton ratchet press I'm trying to set up to make gas checks...

Why not just make a copy of the allegheny machine? If you are really interested in getting into production of swaged bullets you are going to need a fair amount of experience machining, they are...

There really arn't a lot of companies out there that make presses specifically for swaging. But there are a number of presses which are capable of doing it. Many companies use retooled cold header...

Speer used to make these, they were called the "plinker" and came out at about 100 grains, are you sure you want to try to push them at RUM velocities?

I have been cleaning a lot of BP cartridges lately, and I've been trying to find something that does a good job of cleaning up the mungy brass left behind. I was kinda thinking about using BB's and...

You should be able to get lanolin from any health food store. I had to call around to find somewhere that had it. You are looking for Anhydrous Lanolin (liquid) it usually comes in a 4-8oz bottle and...

Ugh, primer pocket crimp removal sucks... I hate it so much. But I load thousands of rounds of .223 so i feel your pain. I started out using the deburring tool, then went on the the RCBS primer...

Most of the Powdered Metallurgy (PM) bullets that are out there are made with copper, zinc, tin, nylon and just about any mix between them. The tin or the nylon are generally used as binder agents...

I have some experience with this... We use a 40 ton cold header press at work to smash lead into bullets. We make a wide variety of them, in my experience while 20 tons is more than enough, the slow...

I dunno about hard... I don't know if my tooling is a lot better than I appreciate but I've recut those lee dies many a time and they for the most part cut like refridgerated butter with high speed...

Linstrom,

Wow! While at this time I can only aspire to having a need to draw copper tubing in such a fashion, I hope to one day take my hobby that far.

As far as why do you need a big press?...

ManleyJT just gave me a possibly worse idea... make it dual action, so you cut on the way down, and then again on the way up. Like one of those crazy sushi-chefs on those ginsu-infomercials. All that...