Making bullet swageing dies/ does anyone here do it?

[swampdoctor]

I read Bullet Swageing Forums regularly because i am greatly interested in learning a whole lot more about it than the little bit that I currently know. Oh I have drawn the temper out of cases in my oven and made Cast Jacketed Bullets by inserting them into specially made bullet molds, then pushing them through a push through sizer to true them up. But I have gotten the itch to not only reform handgun brass into jackets, but to also form my own jackets from sheet copper and sheet brass, maybe even gas checks too while I am at it. So my question is: Have any of you made bullet swageing dies before and would you consider trying to make one or two? Or 25?,!00? And get paid well for it too? Lately the larger suppliers of bullet swageing dies have gone absolutely crazy with their prices. I'm just asking if anyone here knows anything about maybe making these dies?

 

[Rick Leslie]

For ideas on bullet swaging check out Corbin's web site.
http://www.corbins.com/

For the gas checks look up Free Chex.
http://freechex.net/

 

[Jericho]

I was following the swage forums until BT Sniper got up to the prices of Corbin's. Making your own jackets won't save you any money on anything but using 22 hulls. That's easy.. If someone gave you the dies, the raw materials cost as much as jackets for other calibers Only thing I've found that might be cheap would be to make aluminum gas checks from scrap and buying the forming tool.
That said, I think it reasonable to make pistol bullets by using spent hulls for jackets.
You can buy Die blanks that are knurled and threaded with an appropriate pilot hole from http://shop.pacifictoolandgauge.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_127&products_id=1096 .
I bought 40 cal and 45 swage dies from CH that work fine for those calibers. I am not going to encourage the manufacture of rifle calibers unless you are planning on making say 25,000 bullets a year and then I'd say buy them from BT Sniper or Corbin's. Been pursuing this for a couple of years in the quest for doing 22 hulls to bullets and should have spent all the money I've consumed on time and supplies to buy the dies commercially.
Hate to be the wet blanket but that's my experience. Lots of other stuff involved such as heat treating, lapping etc but don't want to wear you out.

 

[mack318]

here is what your looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JVm76Y37I&list=PL9tn9rGywKUXI2SDxGwI0YeYyMsUcWOqW


check out NYC CNC on youtube

 

[blaser.306]

I am currently making dies to fit the Corbin "s" press. I was using D scrapers to cut the blind hole , but was running into chatter and other un wanted troubles. I purchased a Grizzly G0704 for the ability to cut multi flute reamers. I have pretty near got a method down now. My next challenge is going to be making repeateable lapps. Once that happens I will post some pics. Also would LOVE to find a 1 foot long piece of 0-6 ( graph Mo ) 1" diameter annealled tool steel to try before I import a batch from the US.