Hello,
I'm new to the web site and new to bullet swaging. I'm hoping that someone might give me some perspective on reasonable jacket tolerance expectations. I recently purchased 45 caliber copper jackets with both .030" and .035' wall thicknesses. I QC'd the product with a ball micrometer, measuring at different points on the circumference, both at the throat and midway thru the length.
On both wall thickness jackets I measured a + - .004" - .005" variance. Does this seem excessive or reasonable? Will the process of swaging the cores to the jackets mitigate some of these variances? Thank you all for your input.
Stephenbh