my second swaged bullet rage test

[varmint243]

I completed my second swaged bullet range test this weekend
I'm fairly pleased with the results given the LOE+cost involved so far
(thank you for shortening the learning curve Victor)

I'm making .357 jackets from 9mm brass
approximately a 3/4 length jacket with a small rim of exposed lead
Using a 100gr .32 caliber bullet for the core (range scrap)
Using Lachmiller 38 SWC swaging dies in a Rockchucker with a long handle
These come out to about 150gr -ish
4.0 grains of WST
about 900fps -ish on the chrono

On my second test I drilled out the primer flash hole to 1/8" allowing the lead to squeeze into the primer pocket
This seemed to work well as far as keeping the core and the jacket together after impact with the steel gong
I also used a Harbor Freight tumbler and pins to make the jackets shiny after annealing
The next test will be to increase the powder charge past cast lead velocities

http://home.comcast.net/~varmint243/pwpimages/swaged-range-test02.JPG

[IllinoisCoyoteHunter]

Cool! Looks like the rifling is engraving the base of the bullet more??? I assume where we see the rifling marks go away is the beginning of the ogive? Would like to see pic of the bullets before firing. I like the idea of lead in the primer pockets. Good work!

[varmint243]

I didn't snap a before pic on this batch
They looked very similar to the ones in the pic from my first test
I left about twice the exposed lead at the top of jacket
I also pin polished them so they looked a lot nicer
I will take before pics the next time


first test
http://home.comcast.net/~varmint243/pwpimages/swaged-range-test01.jpg