NEW FOR 2018
BTSimple 30 cal!
Here it is! What customer's have been waiting for and what I have been hinting at and working on since the release of the successful BTSimiple 22 cal set last year. I have all materials in hand or on order. Even placed an order for new custom reamers for these dies as well.
I will be beginning machine work on these new dies around the end of this month. I expect to have them done with initial machine work and sent to Nitride processing by end of February/middle of March, and back in my hands ready to assemble by end of March.
I will be posting pics very soon of everything these dies can do. They will be same excellent material, style and quality that was built into my BTSimple 22 cal set.
It is my goal that this set of dies will be able to make perfect 30 cal bullets from Commercial Jackets (up to 1.15" in length), FN5.7x28 brass and simple soft roll 5/16" Copper Tubing.
I have set initial prices as listed below (subject to change but I don't expect it to unless something drastic in labor occurs). I have listed the components separately rather then a complete package to allow the customer purchase what best suits their needs.
These dies will work with any decent reloading press.
The customer will be able to cast the cores using a two cavity mold, each cavity will cast a different weight core (numbers off tip of my head here), one cavity will allow for roughly a 180 grain bullet when using the 5.7 brass and the other cavity will be smaller and lighter. The FN5.7 case weights about 60 grains, a Sierra 1.0" 30 cal jacket weights 45 grains. A 1.0" copper tubing jacket should weight about 70 grains.
So.... some simple math
120 grain lead core should make 180 grain bullet from 5.7 brass, 190 grain bullet from copper tubing and 165 grain bullet from Sierra jacket.
That right there is some pretty good numbers in it's self but maybe a lighter option might be in the cards for say the 308 or 300AAC shooters or even the 30-30 shooters.
Maybe a 90 grain core, with full length or trimmed FN and copper tubing numbers should be about 145-150 for the FN brass depending on if it is trimmed or not and probably the same weight for the copper tubing as it would need to be trimmed shorter. We'll see if the Sierra jacket will make a 135 grain bullet. Could probably find .900" or .800" length commercial jackets for the lighter cores.
Copper tubing will only be making FP lead tip bullet initially, might be a possible full length jacket option but will cost a little extra for additional required base punch, I'll look into it based on results.
Once I have first die set machined I'll post my progress with plenty of pics.