Thanks for the correction... After some more reading and seeing more calibers that can be adapted, going to get the equipment soon and add this to the things to keep me busy. I've shot close to or at 100k in Montana Gold bullets without barrel damage, annealing process will make cases softer to run down the barrel. With the amount of brass and lead on hand, and next 18 to 24 months of limited components, would keep the cabinets full to keep plinking.
Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:06 am
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Please explain further. What are you attempting to do?
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Please explain further. What are you attempting to do?
Take a 40 case and a lead 40 bullet, stuff the bullet all the way into the case and swage it. Makes a 44 mag bullet. Small bit more to it than that, but the gist of it. Yet, there's many bullets you can make out of different cases that I've found. So looking at 30, 40 and 45 calibers equipment to do it.
Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:42 am
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Still dont get why. You have to cast or buy the .40 cal then fiddle with the brass when it is so much easier to just cast .44 magnum. If you want them really hard and lighter cast them out of zinc.
Still dont get why. You have to cast or buy the .40 cal then fiddle with the brass when it is so much easier to just cast .44 magnum. If you want them really hard and lighter cast them out of zinc.
Just like everything else in life, it'd just be easier and less of a time consuming hassle to just buy the loaded ammo, and not shoot it, instead of doing some things on your own and your own way Much like reloading or making a knife, something to do and learn while keeping the brain and hands busy.
Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:20 am
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Kind of a cool idea. I actually have some junk 40 pulled lead bullets and a bunch of 40 brass, which is basically useless.
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Would be much harder to achieve consistent grain weight of finished projectile by pouring lead into the case mouth. I do wonder however, if the finished product would shoot accurate or consistent?
Have you fired any of these?
+1 on getting a .429 mold. Powdercoat them and shoot clean at close to jacketed velocity, and probably a hell of a lot more accurately.
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Why wouldn't just pour the molten lead INTO the 40case as you mold?
Why would you buy or cast 40s and then load them into a case? It seems to me to be way easier to just fill a bunch of 40 cases with liquilead.
Pretty much my thinking as it isn't so much about accuracy at distance, more just to have fun and shoot. Get some experience and probably get the lead pour close enough.
Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:31 pm
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