Custom BTSniper 40 cal one step dies

[BT Sniper]

Been a long process but I expect we will be seeing some results very soon. I was told I can expect my custom reamer around the 13th of June, about 2 weeks from now. This delay on the custom reamer was a bit unexpected but hopfully will be worth the wait.

This cusom die will differ slightly from the CH die I have offered in the past in that it will have a more appropriate nose legth of around .250 vs. the overly long nose of the 40 cal CH die. The rest of the design will be the same using the same heavy duty internials I offer in all my dies.

I plan to keep everyone posted of the progress on this die and I expect it to be a great impovement in design for some great 40 cal bullets.

Good shooting and Swage On!

BT

[Rangefinder]

Man, my wife is gonna make me sleep on the sofa for a month when you finally twist my arm enough to get all these new toys... Wonder if she'll just kick me out to the shop instead? THAT would at least be productive... LOL

[BwBrown]

Rangefinder,
I know of what you speak.
Not sure where I read it but, it has been said...

"My greatest fear is that when I die, my wife will sell all my stuff for what I told her I paid for it."

Bob

[PatMarlin]

"my greatest fear is that when i die, my wife will sell all my stuff for what i told her i paid for it."

bob

lol......

[BT Sniper]

Been on the phone with custom reamer shop all month. Seems I may have bothered them enough and they said it will be ready to ship Monday the 27th.

I'll keep you all posted.

BT

[MakeMineA10mm]

Guess what today is?!?

[BT Sniper]

Yep I got conformation it was shipped today

Think it was March when I sent them the plans.

I expect to make first die by end of week if all is well with the reamer.

I'll keep you all posted.

BT

[scrapcan]

good to hear you are moving in the right direction, now to start saving my change.

[mactool]

thats good to hear. I cant wait

[BT Sniper]

IT'S HERE! IT'S DONE! IT'S PERFECT!




Loaded rounds standing up from left. Standard CH-4d bullet, Federial Premium Personal Defence, BTSniper custom notched and BTSniper custom lead tip. Notice how the standard CH bullet has to be seated deeper because of the long nose. Notice how similar my custom bullets are now to the expensive factory Federial offerings. Notice how small the factory notches are!


Pic of the family. New notching die is really working well with my new custom 40 cal die!


My EAA witness 40 S&W test platform. You can bet I'll be shooting some of my new bullets real soon.



I'll have pics up today! They look exactly like the Federal Premium Personal Defence bullets I designed them after only better!

Tell you what I think IMOP... I think they are better then any factory offered bullets I've seen in 40 cal! Wait till you seem them notched!

The diameter is perfect at .3995-.4000! The length of the nose is perfect allowing us to properly seat the bullet without the ogive being below the mouth of the case! The overall length of the bullet (at 187 grains with wheel weight alloy core) is perfect, under .700, which I consider to be the max length in the 40S&W! The nose metplat is perfect at .250!

I am EXCITED to say the least! This has been in development for me all year.

I have over 50 dies ready to be cut for this 40 cal. Atleast 10 possibly 20 will be going to heat treat first thing after the holiday.

With great pride and confidence I am accepting orders at this time.

Please refer to my BTSniper Custom Tool and Die sticky for current prices and offers.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=117577

My custom notching die and 40 cal expanding mandrel is HIGHLY recamended too!


Guests of this sight please feel free to join or you can email me at BT_Sniper@hotmail.com

These dies are superiour in design to the Ch dies IMOP and one member here has made over 15 K worth of bullets from that CH die and is still going. I expect very good things from this custom die.

My die is made from quality 4140 tool steel heat treated to an ideal hardness of 47 on the rockwell scale for maximum strength. Then it is case hardened on the the outer surfaces of the die, a special and expensive heat treat process called nitriding, to give the outer shell a harness of over 60 to eleminate ware and lessen the possiblity of scratchs.

Like I said I'll have pics up very soon.

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

I look foward to hearing back from all of you.

Good shooting and Swage On!

BTSniper

[BT Sniper]

I expect to have first completed dies shipped by end of July possibly sooner. I make sure all my customers know that quality will always come first should I experience any delays on my part.

Thanks

BT

[DukeInFlorida]

Brian,
Can I trade my OLD CH4D design dies in for the new and improved version????

:

[a.squibload]

Yeah, why didn't you do this one FIRST?


MakeMine: your birthday?

[BT Sniper]

You guys are great LOL. I may actually be able to swing some sort of "trade in value" not "trade for". We'll see.

It was only a matter of time for me to figure out perfection Want somthing done right and all that you know.

BT

[BT Sniper]

pictures added in post #10

[MakeMineA10mm]

Yeah, why didn't you do this one FIRST?


MakeMine: your birthday?

Nope. Not even my half-birthday, but it feels like it with BT getting these new dies out!

(I was actually referring to BT's comment in the post immediately above that the dies were supposed to ship to him that day.)

I'm glad I got the 44 one-step die first and waited on the 40-cal die. Now the perfect one is here, so I guess I know where my next paycheck is going...

[BT Sniper]

Actually it was just the reamer I was waiting on. I machine the dies myself now. No more waiting for someone else to make the dies.

BT

[sargenv]

I really would like the new dies, but unfortunately until we know the status of wife's job prospects.. I'm stuck (not really stuck, I like the old ones) using the prototypes from CH/BT. I like the shape of the new one though.. At some point I hope to get the new ones.. it's great that someone (BT) got a kick in the pants with the old one to innovate new items for our consumption..

[zaphod042]

BT, would you summarize the differences between the .40 cal one-step die and the the two die set? Aside from the lower cost, why would we pick one over the other?

[DukeInFlorida]

DON'T PANIC!

I may be wrong, but the "new" .40 swage die is also a one step die.

Instead of Brian using the CH4D swage die, with it's long nose form, he created his own custom reamed nose, which mirrors the factory bullets.

The "second die" is the notching die, sold separately. That notching die can also be used to notch the original version of the one step swage bullet.

Apologies to Douglas Adams.

BT, would you summarize the differences between the .40 cal one-step die and the the two die set? Aside from the lower cost, why would we pick one over the other?