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Offline jammer308

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dumb question?
« on: May 17, 2009, 12:55:43 PM »
Is it possible to jacket your own cast bullets?  ??? thanks.   jammer

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Re: dumb question?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 03:43:46 PM »
For a number of years I made my own jacketed bullets in .25 caliber and .22 caliber. Shot them in a .25-06 and a .222. Bought swaging dies and a swaging press. Bought blank jackets made of drawn gilding metal. I have a Lyman mold that makes a slug that looks like a piece of lead wire. The mold has a screw adjustable bottom in it allowing one to make a core that weighs from a very few grains to something over a hundred grains. This lead core, made of soft lead, was then swaged into the jacket making a jacketed bullet.

As to putting a jacket on a bullet made to be shot as cast, I don't see the point, and so far as I know, nobody makes equipment to do it.

There's one exception. You can buy shotgun plastic sabots made to seat a cast lead slug into, which makes your shotgun a slug gun. They work great.

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Re: dumb question?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2009, 05:10:17 AM »
The quick and dirty answer is NO.

The longer and vastly more expensive answer is yeah kinda. You can cast cores and buy or form jackets IF you have the equipment but that equipment is VERY EXPENSIVE and likely for your own personal use you'll never recoup the cost in savings.


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Re: dumb question?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2009, 12:25:31 PM »
There is a way to jacket your bullets, see the paper patching forum below.  Does the same thing as a copper jacket and the technology needed is nothing more than a pair of scissors.  For supplies, paper.  Lets you shoot a putty soft bullet at high velocities without barrel leading.

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Re: dumb question?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2009, 12:57:54 PM »
For most calibers the answer is NO.
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BUT, you can make your own jacketed .224 and .243 bullets using 22RF fired cases and proper diameter lead wire. http://www.corbins.com/kit-224.htm

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