Sorry, I just have to ask this...HOW?

[AZMark]

How in the world does one swage a lead bullet at home? Don't you need like a huge machine? I just can't imagine how you generate the kind of pressure that must be required to 'smush' lead.

[blaser.306]

It doesn't take as much as you would think I was sizing and installing gas-checks on a run of 7mm castboolits this morning and found one of my test slugs that was mixed in with hard cast , water dropped silouette slugs and when it went into the Lyman 4500 it colapsed like a marshmallow!

[deltaenterprizes]

Check out Corbin's site.

[454PB]

It depends on the size and shape of the bullet being formed, and whether it's jacketed or not. I use an RCBS Rockchucker for swaging jacketed .224 bullets and it's not stressed at all.

[Echo]

I used to swage .357 SP's. I cast 30 caliber 120-gr Lee Carbine boolits out of soft lead and used them as the cores. Made some nice 131-gr SP bullets. All on my Rock Chucker.

[kawalekm]

This is all you need to make your own jacketed bullets.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/kawalekm/swagingstation.jpg
The orange Swagomatic press on the left makes straightsided SWC jacketed .357" hollowpoints. The green RCBS RockChucker press has CH dies to make .44 Mag hollowpoints.