Turning round nose into plat point?

[mdi]

I'm curious about the method. Did you just put a cast bullet on an arbor press and squish a flat spot on the nose? Did you use a die to hold the bullet and maintain diameter? I'm a life long machinist/mechanic/tinkerer and I like to check out different processes I run across. Some have come in handy...

[Hickok]

Just make sure they chamber easily. Sometimes the ogive can enlarge, or with the addition of Powder coat, the nose of the boolit may engrave the rifling and make chambering a round difficult.

I sometimes file off the tip on a couple of pointy-type boolits to use for hunting purposes. You only need a couple for hunting, so it is not a big issue. They seem to shoot just fine for me.

[45-70 Chevroner]

I have the arbor press set so the handle will stop at the same spot to hopefully be consistent with every nose flatten. I don't think I want all of my rounds to be like that, though I was curious if the larger flat spot would create a meplat of sorts for defensive rounds.

A flat point is usually better for self defence, but it would depend on velocity and alloy.

[boog]

I'm curious about the method. Did you just put a cast bullet on an arbor press and squish a flat spot on the nose? Did you use a die to hold the bullet and maintain diameter? I'm a life long machinist/mechanic/tinkerer and I like to check out different processes I run across. Some have come in handy...

I just put it on the arbor press and squished a flat spot. Then took it to the sizer and ran it through again to see if it felt different, it did not.

[boog]

A flat point is usually better for self defence, but it would depend on velocity and alloy.

I'm using a mix of old wheel weights, a little range scrap and linotype. I can't wait for warmer weather to get out and test some rounds.

[centershot]

I've done this with the Lee .312-185 boolit. I use it for my M-N carbine sized .314" and my 30-30 sized .311". It's too long to cycl thru the Marlin action so I had a friend turn a bushing that slides over the boolit and is the proper length for the Marlin. Tap, tap, tap with a small hammer and a RNFP boolit pops out!

[MT Gianni]

A long time ago I bought a trim die for a 265 diameter cartridge and file trimmed flats on loaded 311413 bullets. I could never get them to an acceptable group but probably should have slowed them down. I have successfully bumped noses flat on the 358430 195 gr rn that shot well. Let your groups complete your ideas not the internet.