BTSniper 22 cal swage die offer

[cba257]

Brian-

OK I am in. PM sent.

[BT Sniper]

All Pm's replied to. Thank you all for your support. You all are going to love these dies and making your own bullets.

I will always have plenty of these dies to offer so for anyone that has ever considered making your own 22 cal bulelts from scrap 22LR brass I can't think of a better offer or time to do so.

There are still slots availble for the first ten to receive the free core mold.

Good shooting and start gathering that 22lr brass.

BT

[mdshunter]

Brian, Talk to me about your plans for the 458. What are you using for the jacket? Bullet weight and shape? Core etc. I am very interested for the 458wm.
thx, Mike
PS Assume I do not know anything about swaging, because I don't.

[BT Sniper]

Brian, Talk to me about your plans for the 458. What are you using for the jacket? Bullet weight and shape? Core etc. I am very interested for the 458wm.
thx, Mike
PS Assume I do not know anything about swaging, because I don't.

I think I started a thread on the .458. If you don't find the answers you need feel free to send me a PM. The .458 looks awesome. Great bullets can be made from both the 40S&W or the 45 ACP. The 40 S&W will acomadate .458 bullets up to 350-375 grains and the 45 ACP will go BIG! I have made them up to 425 grains with a lead tip and still had plenty of room with the jacket for more lead at the tip before reaching the baring surface. any thing can be a core. I have been using 44 cal cast boolits. THe 45 ACP weights 80 grains and the 40 S&W weights 70 grains. Simply do the math with whatever cast boolit you wish to use for a core.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Good shooting

Brian

[BT Sniper]

7 of the first 10 offered package deals are spoken for. That leaves 3 more to qualify for the free core mold. I'll be happy to continue to take orders from everyone interested.

That makes 12 confirmed orders with the 5 I had before the package offer.

Thank you all for yoru patience. I'll be getting to them just as soon as I can.

My plan is to send everyone the core mold and derim die first to get you all started on making your 22 cal bullets from 22lr brass. Hope eveyone is collecting the 22lr brass and getting it cleaned up. Also collect some lead (soft is best up to 10bnh).

Thank you all for your support

Good shooting and Swage On!

Brian

[cba257]

I think that is great to send out the derim die and core mold in advance. Thank you Brian!!

[BT Sniper]

Your welcome. IF I was really good I would be able to send the core swage too. THose still need to be machined and will be sent off with teh rest of the dies so chances are by the time the core swage is ready so will be the rest of the dies.

I'll do my best.

Thank you all for your support and patience with these 22 cal dies.

Good shooting

Brian

[BT Sniper]

Update.

I received all the blank core molds and handels and will be boring them out soon. I expect and hope to have all core molds and derim dies sent by end of next month and still expect to have all orders completed and dies to your door by christmas or sooner.

I also extended the free core mold and free shipping till end of day 8-15-12. Anyone that wants to get in on this great offer plese feel free. I have nearly 20 orders so there will be a few more free molds going out then just the first 10 I mentioned.

After 8/15/2012 S&H will be $20, standard core mold will be $100 and adjustable core mold will be $150

I made these changes to orginal offer in bold type on first post of this thread.

I'll be able get dies to all customers by christmas for everyone that places orders before end of September.

I'll be happy to take orders indefinatly! I have plenty of these dies to offer and will always be able to make more.

Just an update on shooting these bullets. I went out shooting last weekend and made a first round cold bore hit on a snaple bottle (pop can size) target at 300 yrds with my 22 cal 55.8 grain bullets. Then I proceeded to shoot a 1.3" three shot group at 300 yrds with them. I'll post pics soon. Every time I go out and shoot, these bullets never fail to supprise me with their performance.

Thank you all for your support. I'll have derim dies and core molds sent out as soon as I can, probably closer to end of next month. This month is going to be pretty busy for me.

Good shooting and swage on!

Brian

[supe47]

Twiddlin' my fingers. Even bought a new rifle and scope for a testbed. And a new press. We all await patiently. This waiting is getting expensive.

Supe

[BT Sniper]

I'll make sure it is worth everyone's wait.

My girls are back in school come the end of the month. That will clear up a LOT of time for me to work on eveyone's dies.

Thanks for all your support and patience.

Brian

[Four-Sixty]

Brian,

Any possibility of there ever being a set up, or add on dies, to make .224 bullets in the 40 grain weight range? It could make the 5.7 much more economical to load to.

[DukeInFlorida]

His current die set will do what you want. It's a matter of trimming the .22 LR brass to a shorter length, and making the cores lighter. Do those two things, and you should get 40 grain bullets with the current tools.

[Four-Sixty]

OK. That makes sense as I believe he has the option of an adjustable mold. But, you can already trim the brass cases shorter to match? Wonderful!

[DukeInFlorida]

You can make or buy your own wire chopper to rough cut cores to whatever length/weight you want. The core swage die set makes the rough formed pieces precise. I made a chopper from nothing more than two pieces of angle iron, with a pivot point (bolt through that for the pivot), and hole drilled through for the wire to fit in. I made a simple adjustable stop to handle the length. I clamp that to my bench and chop away at the wire.

For trimming the .22 brass, the simplest way is to use a punch / pinch die. I'll find the thread where it's shown. They're easy to make, and use. With it, you can pinch punch the tiny brass pieces to any length, without spinning blades to worry about.

UPDATE: Here's that thread where you are shown how to easily and simply trim .22 brass to a shorter length.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...trim+.22+brass

[newcastter]

It also comes with a core swage die so you could even use a pair of snips to cut the molded cores to "close" to proper size then swage them to exact size/weight

[Dakine]

Hi Brian, any chance you'll be extending the offer again?

[fredj338]

OK. That makes sense as I believe he has the option of an adjustable mold. But, you can already trim the brass cases shorter to match? Wonderful!

If you do not want to trim brass cases & have access to 22 shorts, that might get you there. Porblem, most people do not shoot 22 short anymore.

[DukeInFlorida]

Out of a recent 5 gallon bucket full (not sure how many thousands that is) of .22 LONGS, I only found five shorts.

If you do not want to trim brass cases & have access to 22 shorts, that might get you there. Porblem, most people do not shoot 22 short anymore.

[gvanzeggelaar]

BT can you check your PM's

[BT Sniper]

Current offer updated and price is good now threw atleast the end of the year. I had to add S&H as well as funding to cover cost of the core mold.

This offer has no experation and I'll be happy to take anyone's order that is interested. I still plan to have all orders, place by end of Sept, to your door by Christmas.



Thank you all for your support

Good shooting and swage on!

Brian