Hey guys,
Going to try making riffle bullets with jackets made from copper tubing someday. Did some searching on the sight and it seems the jacket is always "drawn" or sized down to proper size. My question is could the tubing be swaged up in size instead? For example .257 or .264 from 1/4" (.250) tubing or .338 from 5/16" (.3125)? This would seem to eliminate a step in the process. I can only think the reason for drawing the tubing is that it helps with uniform wall thickness and of course proper size, is this the case? Is the wall thickness of standard copper tubing uneven to begin with?
Anyone have some experience or addvise that would care to chime in. I'll be making my own dies for the jacket making process as well. Of course this is a whole nother learning experience for me.
Thanks
Brian