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FWIW, GT Bullets sells 96/2/2 alloy for a decent price (these days!)

https://www.gtbullets.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=Ingot

Same here. Easy cleanup with hot water.

If you start low and work up there shouldn’t be any pressure issues but one thing I’ve noticed with mags, especially in smaller cases, is that they tend to cause more forcing cone leading in...

I did a batch of PMC .308 brass and lost maybe one out of ten going straight to 6.5 in a standard RCBS FL sizer with RCBS Lube. There was a fine line between too much lube and oil denting vs. not...

Could be due to varying "case capacity" even with same head stamp brass? All I've used for jackets is spent brass and some lots/batches are super consistent, others... not so much. I haven't tried...

Not a highjack at all! The original question is being answered and explored.

666+1 is also an easy lube to use, it flows at room temperature through a lubesizer and while a bit gummy on bullets,...

FWIW, the mess is only in revolvers. 666+1 has proven to be a top performer in rifles, excellent accuracy, easy to run through a lube sizer, first shot is same place and velocity as last shot, and...

Thanks for the info, guys. I’m on the fence about making my own lube when there’s White Label but I have a few pounds of ingredients to use up. I’ll try the suggestions.

Some of you might remember .357Maximum's "Satan Lube", six parts of parafin/beeswax/vaseline + grated Ivory?

I made a big batch a while ago and have been using it for the last few years. Seems to...

Dave Scoville suggested a load of 30gr to 32gr of IMR4198 under a 150-170grainer fired with a MAGNUM primer works in just well in about any '06 he tried. Works for me too!

Velocities will be on...

I had a surplus five-screw S&W back in the early 90's but who knows where it is now. If you've read much Keith, he makes numerous mention of the shallow rifling in these revolvers and the subsequent...

While Scoville is old and tired, he's right in this regard.

I tried a short stint writing what I thought were useful, interesting and well researched articles but it just wasn't worth it. If it...

Zinc plated steel and although it doesn't seem to matter, the zinc is wearing away. I was too cheap to buy the copper plated ones.


Make sure the water is hot and give it a pretty hefty squirt of...

Hot water and dish soap, wet tumbled with air rifle BBs.

I'm no expert but figured it was the result of hot, high pressure gases full of burnt and unburnt lube, powder, bullet metal etc getting blown onto and into the surface.

Funny thing, when I was...

Same here. RCBS 240gr SWC GC is my baseline bullet in 44s

Here's some more results from odd-ball swaging - double jacketed silhouette bullet? 357 cast bullet for core, 9mm case inside 40S&W case makes a 280gr full jacketed ??? (Plus a normal type soft point...

Double whoa!


Are the SWCs formed in a closed die then knurled with the disc or do you have some sort of "roller" die to make them?

Math, looks like we're running our bullets around the same velocities. The ones in my picture are all bonded cores which really helped keep them together. I would like to have a smaller mushroom for...

Hey Traffer, I also tried the BBs for case cleaning but they didn't reach into the extractor groove or primer pocket corners so I case clean with commercial SS pins. The pins clean the heck out of...

Math, that's awesome!

I had a chance to shoot a few swaged slugs into a brown bear carcass but only found one picture of the results. One bullet was recovered from a quartering shot on a 150lb...

Hey Nun, they're the cheaper zinc plated ones but I'm sure the copper washed ones would work the same. The Palmolive/Lemishine mix seems to polish up the BB nice and shiny too.

Dang, those do look awesome! One step sure is nice.

Here's a few pictures and tips from some recent, random swaging.

A trick I came up with is to wet tumble finished bullets in standard air-rifle BBs in the standard case cleaning solution of dish...

Same story here, was doing a lot of PPing in rifles so had to try it in revolvers. I used the technique of patching the full diameter slug and running it through a sizer afterwards.

I don’t recall...