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Thread: hornady half jacket cups in 44

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    hornady half jacket cups in 44

    does anyone use hornady 44 cup half jackets any more ? i see nothing on the swaging forum talking about them. or are they too old hat ?

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    Affirmative; I do...

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    your message box is full

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    Are those still around? I remember there was a fad for them ~40 years ago. (Yeah, I'm that old.) The results were universally less than stellar, and I thought they had disappeared.
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    Way more than 40 years ago; many major bullet manufacturers offered SWC's with partial jackets. Not so much anymore but nothing wrong with them...

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    I have some in 38 and 44 and an old swag-o-matic press to install them but I haven't used any as I find cast boolits to work great without the half jacket. I might try them some day.

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    I have found that for 44 and 45 it is a lot, and I mean a lot, cheaper to use the 40 S&W brass cut down to the length you want. I just made some 45ACP half jacket SWC's using a new version of the old Swage-O-Matic dies that has the step on the bullet and they worked fine. I have used the Hornady copper jackets and for what I shoot I can't tell the difference.

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