Gentlemen,
I am new to the centerfire reloading world. I have been working with rimfire now for almost 4 years but have yet to begin reloading for center fire. I have a plan and want to ask advise before embarking:
Swaging lead bullets from cores, I can make dies of any size without much trouble. They can be made hollow point or hollow base but I cannot impart grooves in them. I have also found that making a reasonably close to final sized core, this core can be powder coated before swaging, resulting in a very nice swaged to size powder coated bullet. I am currently doing this for my 9mm luger and 38 S&W. It had occurred to me that I have not seen 45/70 boolits that were without crimp grooves. So my question is this...would a grooveless bullet work in a 45/70? Would there be any advantage to making the base hollow? Would a powder coated boollit be adequate without lube? Or are there any other reasons to scratch the idea of doing this?