A Question For The Crowd

[klcarroll]

If someone were to start making jackets for common calibers, what range of wall and base thicknesses would you all consider to be useful???


Kent

[coyote]

Kent it all depends on what the bullet will be intended for ,hunting bullets for deer size and up would work good with a tappered jacket maybe around .025" at the base
.I make my target bullets about .018 3/4 of the way up and .0135 at the tip that works good for me.
Varmint bullets will be thiner like .017 to .010 .
I think if you had 3 sizes you shoul be good between .025 and .017 for most aplications.

[MIBULLETS]

Straight wall jackets or tapered?

Generally pistol jackets are about .015" thick.

Larger rifle calibers maybe .025" to .030". Thicker for the real big calibers for dangerous game.

[Doc Highwall]

Also you have to consider the velocity range if they are for big game hunting. Take a bullet made for the 30-30 Winchester and shoot it out of a 300 Winchester magnum at a deer at 50 yards and it will blow up like a varmint bullet.

[BT Sniper]

If you can read this your in range! LOVE IT!

Sorry to step on your thread KL, do keep us posted on your progress