Bonz
03-22-2015, 10:36 PM
I got my BTSniper dies and they do work great. One thing that I didn't realize was that the brass cases would need to be trimmed to a specific length for swaging bullets. With my .40->45 swaging dies, to get a 200 grain JHP, I need to trim the .40 brass case to 0.6". Tried everything but the only thing that I could find to get consistent brass case lengths was to use the trimmer for rifle brass, you know the one with the crank handle.
Then I remembered a post from DukeInFlorida when he was talking about a custom chopsaw that Chuckbuster built that had special brass holders. I contacted Chuckbuster and he told me that they happened to be making a few right now and said that I could get on the list. Mine just arrived a few days ago and I decided to make some .40->45 200 grain JHP bullets. It took me a couple of minutes to adjust it so that it cut the cases to the needed 0.6" length. I'm so impressed with the concept and machine work that I had the wife help me video some of it so that I could share it on our site.
If you have questions, you will need to ask Chuckbuster. I have major surgery scheduled for tommorrow 9am and I'm sure that it will be a while before I sign on again.
The following are the videos that I posted on YouTube
http://youtu.be/6wUajXH5m-E
http://youtu.be/_RE84Bxgerk
http://youtu.be/uUuY3y1usO8
Then I remembered a post from DukeInFlorida when he was talking about a custom chopsaw that Chuckbuster built that had special brass holders. I contacted Chuckbuster and he told me that they happened to be making a few right now and said that I could get on the list. Mine just arrived a few days ago and I decided to make some .40->45 200 grain JHP bullets. It took me a couple of minutes to adjust it so that it cut the cases to the needed 0.6" length. I'm so impressed with the concept and machine work that I had the wife help me video some of it so that I could share it on our site.
If you have questions, you will need to ask Chuckbuster. I have major surgery scheduled for tommorrow 9am and I'm sure that it will be a while before I sign on again.
The following are the videos that I posted on YouTube
http://youtu.be/6wUajXH5m-E
http://youtu.be/_RE84Bxgerk
http://youtu.be/uUuY3y1usO8