Hi, my name's Alex and this is my first post after lurking a while. I came to CB.com from HGS where I enjoy their gunsmithing convo's immensely. I got into casting to feed my 9mm when ammo prices leapt to their still unreasonable levels.
Since reading this fine website, I decided to look out for, and found, a nice .41 mag Ruger in barely used condition. I've been casting from the LEE 195gr mold and enjoy shooting it and working up loads.
My introduction out of the way. Here's my quandry: Lately I've been searching for information on hammer swaging and only finding that for pure Pb projectiles for front stuffers for the most part (got some of those too, and glad for the info, but not what I'm looking for).
My question is; can one successfully hammer swage lead core brass case boolits such as those detailed in BTSnipers posts about his .40 and .41 from 9mm brass?
I now those presses are strong and the dies carefully made, but not having a lot of space (common problem) was wondering if anyone's tried beating the **** out of a set of dies made with mason's hammers in mind?
I have a friend who is a machinist, 40+ years experience, and perhaps between the two of us we might turn a set of dies to make a brass jacketed SWC boolit. (am I wrong to call these boolits? They do have awfully large gas checks...)
I hope BTSniper will weigh in, he seems to be one of the leading experts on the forum at present.
Thanks in advance and I look forward to becoming more involved.
Bulldogger