Bullet Making

Re Core Seating Punches
Just interested in were other bullet makers are sourcing their core seating punches today
Thanks for your advice
 
dwconder said:
He also made some great bullet lube I wish his daughter would give the formula
to make it
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I used Lanolin and Castor oil. Lanolin and Vaseline were ok, till my house dried out in the winter. Sometimes, the bullet would stick to the ejector pin and get sucked up into die. I twice made the mistake of trying to grab bullet, before it went back into die. The punch will make a perfect 6mm hole in your thumb nail.....
Lanolin and Vaseline makes for a great bolt lube.
 
Castor is not talked about a lot if any but, I had several high speed punch press
dies our shop had built for the older Ma' Bell switchers. Material was a thin strip
copper alloy not unlike bullet jacket. Lube to keep everything together was 100
percent castor. May be worth picking up some Klotz Benol or Maxima 927 and
give it a try.
 
Last time I made bullets my lanolin had dried out somewhat- was more of a solid consistency that previously. I was told to keep it in a freezer when not in use to prevent this.
 
Steve Kostanich said:
RG

You mentioned Allen Bench in a post here. I knew him well, he was one of my mentors in my early years. He was generous to a fault, gave me a Pindell 30 cal point up die that makes very nice bullets, a Pat McMillan 22 barrel that had polygon rifling that shoots quite well, and a partially finished Weber UNL receiver. He is missed by all the "old " BR shooter here in the NW.

On another post I mentioned I had a lot of .750" J-4 6mm jackets. I finally, last week, got to making bullets on them. I had the most pleasant experience making them, I hit an absolute perfect core seat punch/core weight combination such that there was almost no lead flash around the punch, no shaving of copper off the jacket wall, and no sticking of the jacket on the punch. Can't recall I every have made a batch of bullets where that occurred. Just plain luck!

FWIW
Steve Kostanich
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A few perspectives of the new George Ulrich bullet swage press (small file/low image quality for posting - larger file size and videos will not post). So far, pointed 2,500 .30 Cal. ten ogive bullets: silky smooth, rock solid, very good leverage. This was a quick mount assembly, at 27.5*, using a laminated column beam and plywood. Eventually, I'll nab some aluminum angle and make a variable angle mount.
I believe that George , "has a winner" here - well worthy of consideration for anyone wanting/needing a new swage press!:D
@ $1,600.00, worth every penny. RG
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A little table saw 'fixturing' resulted in a decent base-plate, which should hold up for a while.
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Fancy stuff. George always does top line work. He modified my 2 presses. I also made 45° mounting brackets.
Fancy with the eject try....Mine was just some old coroplast.
That is so heavy duty, it should last 2 life times....or more.
 
We seem to overwhelmed by bullet making presses
George’s any idea of a price🧐
Then there’s
STA-Moly
Lenzi
The Australian
armamentsbydesign bullet making Press $3,500 Australian
Wish l could say the same for bullet forming dies, it seems the only one out there is Jeff Piendhart, (Sta-Moly) and it’s a two year wait 😡
So…plenty of press options but no forming die
 
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