Well, that IS quite a solution!
I was about to suggest that the ashes be mixed or painted onto a clay pigeon (if he were a shotgunner)
Just two weeks ago I attended the funeral and cremation service for my dad's best friend.
I've never been to a service where you actually watch the decedent enter the crematory...
Luckily, he was a accomplished ceramics artist so integrating his ashes into some aspect of his work will be quite easy if the family so chooses.
His widow appropriately made a comment about his body being placed in a kiln...
Easy, measure a small amount of ashes, pour them into the bottom of a jacket, then place a 1/3 weight jacket on top of the ashes and run into the core swage die. Think of the small core as a cork that will expand and hold it all in place. Depending on what weight of bullet you want and how much ash you want in each round you'll have to play around with it. Once you get a good deal with a small core you can always add a second core to round out the weight.
That's the best I can come up with, fully compressed and sealed inside a jacket. You could always mix it with a bit of melted wax or an oil so it doesn't puff out everywhere.
"The Gods cannot do for Man what Man must do for himself." ~ Athena
-The Odyssey
Corbins website mentions using cornstarch in a similar manner. Put a measure of cornstarch into a core seat die (no bleed hole) and it compresses to a plastic like material. I don't know how ashes would act, try some wood ashes first.
"The Gods cannot do for Man what Man must do for himself." ~ Athena
-The Odyssey
One could do this for .30's if they swage .30's and .224's. :
For each bullet you will need:
(2) 22LR cases that have been derimmed and annealed for .224 jackets. Each jacket weighs about 10 grains.
(2) cores for the .224's (say 40 grains each) I would swage each of the two cores into it's own jacket made from 22LR. (50 gr each)
(1) .308 jacket (commercial or fabricated from 5/16 copper tubing or ...) My jackets made from 5/16 copper tubing weigh ~ 70 grains.
In the .308 jacket I would insert (1) of the swaged 22LR jacket/cores. I would then place a volume of ashes about 50% of the length of a .224 jacket/core. I would then place the 2nd 22LR jacket/core on top of the ashes. I would then seat the entire column of jacket/core's and ashes using the .308 Core Swage die. This process will place the ashes near the center of the formed bullet. My thoughts are this will keep the bullet center of gravity near the same as a traditional all lead jacket. It also provides a lead core/jacket inside the .308 jacket that can have the nose formed.
Another option would be to put the ashes in the nose of the swaged .308 bullet on top of the lead core - where one has reduced the length of the lead core (and weight) so that there is sufficient empty space for the ashes - would have to adjust the volume of ashes so the nose can be formed over the encapsulated ashes at the top.
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