hammer swage
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:43 pm
hammer swage
i decided to go ahead and make a hammer swaging die for a 204 round nose projectile. mostly because there are no round nose plinking and bench rest rounds. i have a metal cutting lathe and materials to make the die. plan on 34 grain round nose to test first. then will try other weights. the projectiles will be hammer swaged from copper. hope to keep the weights kept in tight tolerances. this should bring the costs down some.
i do not intend to sell them because i believe that would require a license and maybe a stamp. to be able to recast or reswage once fired all copper rounds should further bring the costs down. this is assuming that i could recover them from the wood backdrops.
personally think round nose is a bad idea for the high velocity rounds. but just incase i may need to get a rabbit etc round nose would not expand and destroy the meat. at least i would have that option. maybe even a small hog. but as short range bench rest and reswageing is the main goal. i have also seen brass bullets and i think that is not so good for the barrel. not sure how long it will take to make the die.
have done a lot of reading on other sites that discus this but have not seen anything for the 204. though i would try.
i decided to go ahead and make a hammer swaging die for a 204 round nose projectile. mostly because there are no round nose plinking and bench rest rounds. i have a metal cutting lathe and materials to make the die. plan on 34 grain round nose to test first. then will try other weights. the projectiles will be hammer swaged from copper. hope to keep the weights kept in tight tolerances. this should bring the costs down some.
i do not intend to sell them because i believe that would require a license and maybe a stamp. to be able to recast or reswage once fired all copper rounds should further bring the costs down. this is assuming that i could recover them from the wood backdrops.
personally think round nose is a bad idea for the high velocity rounds. but just incase i may need to get a rabbit etc round nose would not expand and destroy the meat. at least i would have that option. maybe even a small hog. but as short range bench rest and reswageing is the main goal. i have also seen brass bullets and i think that is not so good for the barrel. not sure how long it will take to make the die.
have done a lot of reading on other sites that discus this but have not seen anything for the 204. though i would try.