.429 from old brass

[BT Sniper]

Thought I would post some pics of my project I have been working on. I have posted similar pics like this before but I have just about perfected this design.

Basicly I pick up all the old brass in any caliber, be it berdan primed or boxer, and turn it into jacketed bullets. Thse are 255 grain .429s from 30-06 cases. The left over case I use to make my 44 AMP brass with.

It did take a lot of trile and error, mostly errors and frustration but I think I have it almost to final design.

Good shooting guys

BT

[BT Sniper]

up close of loaded round

[NSP64]

do you have to shoot jacketed from that automag? How many steps do you do to get it to shootable form?

[buck1]

Now thats a labor of love. Very cool!

[exile]

Amazing!

exile

[BT Sniper]

Years ago brass was not avialble for the Auto Mag Pistol and you had to make your own. I inherited the gun and dies to make the brass with so away I went. The first step was to cut off the 30-06 case which left me with 1K worth of these bullet looking tops. It took me over 3 years to figure out how to use them for jackets. All though the first 2 was just spent thinking about it.

So lets see first I size it down to 25-06. 2: cut off neck at shoulder junction, 3: cut off again to leave 1.3" left for the 44 AMP case, 4: seat the core which forms the tenitive base and 5: form the bullet wich finalizes the base and tip.

Cutting the the case has been quite easy as I built a jig with my mini chop saw and case trimmer. I can probably cut maybe 20 per minute and maintain supprisingly tight tolerances and uniform weights.

Of course there is deburing the jackets, casting the cores and weight sorting everything before hand. Oh yeh, had to make the inner punch for the core seat die also as this is what really allows me to get the base of the jacket to form. That took a little while.

It may actually be easier then making bullets from the 40 S&W case as I don't have to anneal the cut off -06 jackets. So all and all not that labor intensive once you have the tools and jigs to speed production.

Side note, they sure are accurate.

Thanks guys

BT

[BT Sniper]

I have not tried cast boolits in the AMP but everything I read says it does not like them.

[RayinNH]

Those look like they could be dangerous to whatever is on the receiving end. Very nice work BT...Ray

[Sixgun Symphony]

Very good!