Is Swaging neccessary

[DeadWood]

Say if your boolits are coming out .309 and you slugged the bore at .309? :coffeecom

Its late/early and all i can think about at work anymore is casting the first BOOLIT!


THEN

:Fire:

[ANeat]

DW I think youre refering to casting/sizing and not swaging, which is a whole "nuther" ballgame.

But for your question, The bullet being .001 larger than the bore size is a good rule of thumb.

[Leadsmith]

Some folks will "bump" up their cast bullets to get a larger diameter or change the nose shape or to just make them a bit more uniform than sizing will do. I haven't seen much mention of bumping or bump dies for a while now.

Bob

[DeadWood]

ANeat,
My bad, your right, was referring to sizing. will search "bumping" as leadsmith advised.

Just was thinking to much.

[ANeat]

No worries, lots of solutions for undersized bullets. Lapping the cavities, beagling, bumping, even going to a harder alloy will make the bullets come out a little bigger.