Thank you for the kind words. I had fun doing them. The press is abouth the same as most but it is solid, almost no give. I've been wondering the same thing about the tips. What I've come up with is using the lead tip die, it may indeed close the tip more. The other option is ordering the point forming die with a smaller ejector. Mine is .072 and it gives me a .050 hollow point. The othe option is a bullet pointing die.
I once looked into swaging and it just didnt seem cost effective. Corbon was really the only press and die maker I could find and they werent nearly in the same realm as reloading presses. If I remember correctly they were in the $400-600 range and it just didnt seem like a better option then just buying components. In your opinion is it worth it? Is there something you get out of it that makes it worth the cost? Also what are the component cost?
Thank you for the kind words. I had fun doing them. The press is abouth the same as most but it is solid, almost no give.
I've been wondering the same thing about the tips. What I've come up with is using the lead tip die, it may indeed close the tip more. The other option is ordering the point forming die with a smaller ejector. Mine is .072 and it gives me a .050 hollow point. The othe option is a bullet pointing die.
How do you know whether you're getting air trapped under the core?
I once looked into swaging and it just didnt seem cost effective. Corbon was really the only press and die maker I could find and they werent nearly in the same realm as reloading presses. If I remember correctly they were in the $400-600 range and it just didnt seem like a better option then just buying components. In your opinion is it worth it? Is there something you get out of it that makes it worth the cost? Also what are the component cost?
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zoom in, got it, thanks