pillardrill on Boolit Swaging, has inpired me to try out some new tricks.
Swaging the prime castings!
This one is a fired boolit, swaged and reformed and a hollow point with partially closed hole added!
It is a two-diameter (if one looks carefully, the transition is visible).
A fired two-diameter swaged boolit with recovered patch (low velocity). The patch came off at the muzzle (or at least within a foot of it).
This is the other side of it - it hit the catch medium cylinder going in.
And this is it re-formed.
(Those defects aren't visible normally)
Other re-formed boolits.
The patched two-diameter boolit actually contacts the rifling leade when chambered. The bore ride section justs fits the bore at the breach end but cannot be inserted into the muzzle. As can be seen on the recovered patch, the rifling engages the bore-ride section of patch but does not impress into the casting.
Think this might work on the range?
I made a few extra bits for a push through sizer die I had made a while back (and had forgotten about).