buck1
01-25-2011, 09:15 PM
I have been playing with my Nagant 1895 revolver. I had bought the Lee 6 cav RN (wanted a swc or at least a FP but No 6 cav options) mold and am starting to make the converted 32-20 based cart behave.
I size in a RCBS LAM 1 and didnt have the top punch for it.
I went to the local lumber shop and selected two 1/4 steel dowell pins about a inch or so long. I cleaned up one end to true and smooth, and gently sized the RN boolit fine. Then I sized it again with a little added pressure and presto a RNFP!
Felling proud of myself I chucked the other spare pin in a drill press and got my hand grinder after it. I put a point on one end and polished it. I sized another .32 Lee boolit with the pointed top punch. And with a little extra push(not that much) I was makeing HPs.
I magic markered a line on the sizer ram and could make the same profiles over and over. Total cost 80 cents! These run BHN 14ish.
I want to rig up a "STOP" for the ram so they will be all exactly the same. I think I may size to my marked line and measure the distance between the die and the ram and trim that from the back side if the top punches.
.....Buck
I size in a RCBS LAM 1 and didnt have the top punch for it.
I went to the local lumber shop and selected two 1/4 steel dowell pins about a inch or so long. I cleaned up one end to true and smooth, and gently sized the RN boolit fine. Then I sized it again with a little added pressure and presto a RNFP!
Felling proud of myself I chucked the other spare pin in a drill press and got my hand grinder after it. I put a point on one end and polished it. I sized another .32 Lee boolit with the pointed top punch. And with a little extra push(not that much) I was makeing HPs.
I magic markered a line on the sizer ram and could make the same profiles over and over. Total cost 80 cents! These run BHN 14ish.
I want to rig up a "STOP" for the ram so they will be all exactly the same. I think I may size to my marked line and measure the distance between the die and the ram and trim that from the back side if the top punches.
.....Buck