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DarylS
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Re: Pressing bullets and molds
23/02/14 04:45 AM

Here are some .458's - the ones I recovered from the railway rail bed tie along with one 480gr. unfired. To the far right is a 200gr. .375 recovered from a lengthwise shot into a large Aspen log. It went approximately 18".
The copper tubing, was cut from a length of normal 3/8" copper pipe. I have an old mould I bored 3/8" (boring out the grease grooves) but leaving the ogive. Placing a cut-off piece of pipe into the mould, then casting the bullet gives you a jacketed bullet with a pure lead jacket. The flashing form the cuttoff, leaves enough of a flashing to lock this jacket into/onto the poured core. I lost interest in this after firing just a few - they worked just fine.

I forgot to mention, after cleaning the cuttoff cases for pouring the cores, I lightly wiped the inside with soldering flux to obtain somewhat of a bonded core - it seems to have worked! The really balled up .458, was the pure lead cored bullet. It's jacket was made from a 're-sized .250 Savage case - lots of pressure needed to reduce it to .458, but it worked. I used RCBS lube sizing dies for this in a bench vice - hard on the die and potential to break it. A better scenario would be to simply use sized .303, .35 Remington or .30/40 Krag brass. The .35 Rem does not need the rim turned off - but used .35 rem brass is hard to find - thus - .303's get the nod at .457".

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Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

Edited by Daryl_S (23/02/14 04:52 AM)

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Pressing bullets and molds	Bidyanus1	19/02/14 04:30 PM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	4seventy	21/02/14 11:25 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	DarylS	21/02/14 12:28 PM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Englishman	22/02/14 10:55 PM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	DarylS	23/02/14 04:45 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	4seventy	20/02/14 08:53 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Viking338	19/02/14 08:56 PM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Huvius	20/02/14 12:46 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	DarylS	20/02/14 02:35 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	dpcd67	20/02/14 04:11 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Bidyanus1	20/02/14 09:18 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	DarylS	20/02/14 10:25 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	DarylS	21/02/14 03:06 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Bidyanus1	21/02/14 09:10 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Bidyanus1	21/02/14 11:08 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	4seventy	23/02/14 10:38 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	DarylS	23/02/14 12:10 PM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	Bidyanus1	24/02/14 08:47 AM
Re: Pressing bullets and molds	4seventy	25/02/14 04:50 PM

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