Swaging a FN on a RN boolit??

[10 ga]

What is the process for swaging a FN onto a RN boolit? I'm thinking to change RN to FN for hunting. Any of you guys do this? How? Thanks, 10

[jmsj]

10 ga,
It is not swaging but one of the members here modified mold to turn a RN to FN. His modification was similar to a HP modification but with a flat pin instead of a HP pin. And I think he used a small screw to secure it to the mold so he did not have to hassle with the pin falling out as he casted. jmsj

[lathesmith]

With a Lyman or RCBS sizer, you can sometimes apply enough pressure to the nose with a flat punch, after bottoming out the boolit in the die, to get a decent flat nose. I've done this with Lyman 358430's, it made a nice hammerhead shape.

lathesmith

[mroliver77]

I have bumped a flat nose on a rn boolit with my Lyman sizer many times and it worked well. I did have problems with certain bore riders in that the nose section was bumped up(expanded) too large to fit in the bore. This can also sometimes be a fix for a loose bore rider.
I have found that cast boolits with round nose driven around 2000+ fps seem to make as large a hole as a flat nosed.
Jay

[Will]

I just file the point off after loading. You only loose a few grains and you can get pretty accurate with a few tries.

Will

[10 ga]

mrolliver77, is that on paper or meat? I like my FN boolits on meat as they do a good job of putin it on the table. haven't shot any RN except for .22 rimfire in a long time. even then it was 158s in a .38 spl. 10

[kawalekm]

It's easy with CH dies. Here are bullets I hollowpointed via CH. The left hand bullet is Lyman's 358477 (150 grains) and the right hand is Lyman's 358495 (140 grains). Both were cast in #2 alloy with 5% tin, not pure lead. Bullets must be lubed before swaging, because any un-filled grooves will be crushed out during swaging. You can order swaging dies at www.ch4d.com.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/kawalekm/swagingcastbullets.jpg