Author Topic: How much lead is shaved off? (Read 515 times)

wreckhog · « **on:** March 17, 2010, 11:41:41 AM »

When you seat a bullet and you get a thin piece of flash peeling off? Does it turn a .457 into a .454? .311 into .309?

AtlLaw · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2010, 11:58:48 AM »

Hummmm, I dunno... $:-\$

Tell ya what, measure the outside diameter of sized brass neck, then the neck thickness of the same piece of brass, and the diameter of the (I'm assuming) cast bullet, and maybe we can figure it out... $:-\$

Or, if you trust yourself in measuring inside diameters, measure the inside diameter of the neck of a piece of sized brass... $:-\$

Or measure a piece of peeling with a micrometer... $:-\$

Or bell the mouth of the brass and don't worry about it!

If you're talking about jacketed bullets, that's another story...

BCB · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:33:38 PM »

That shouldn't happen with cast or jacketed bullets--period.

You need to chamfer and interior of the mouth, plus put a slight bell on it...

Good-luck...BCB

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2010, 02:20:17 AM »

if your shaving lead your not going to do it perfectly even all around the bullet and its going to cause an inbalance in your bullets.

Author Topic: How much lead is shaved off? (Read 515 times)

wreckhog

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BCB

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