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Corbin Handbook of Bullet Swaging, No. 9 Revised September 2012 © Copyright 2004, 2012 David R. Corbin All rights reserved. May not be reproduced by any means, including electronic and mechanical, without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder. Published by: Corbin Manufacturing & Supply, Inc. PO Box 2659 White City, OR 97503 USA 541-826-5211 Mon-Thurs 10am-6pm Fax: 541-826-8669 24/7 E-mail: Sales@Corbins.com www.Corbins.com 2
Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Bullet Swaging ..................................................... 5 2. What is Bullet Swaging? .............................................................. 10 3. Bullet Swaging Secrets ................................................................ 25 4. Tubing Jackets ............................................................................. 48 5. Drawn Strip Jackets .................................................................... 67 6. Base-Guard Bullets ...................................................................... 77 7. Draw Dies ..................................................................................... 82 8. Making Lead Cores...................................................................... 97 9. Swaging with a Reloading Press ............................................... 106 10. Bullet Swaging Presses............................................................ 127 11. Lead, Base-Guard, Gas-Checked and Paper Patched Bullets ............................................................ 156 12. Jacketed Semi-Wadcutters..................................................... 172 13. Full-Jacket, Flat Base Bullets ................................................. 183 14. Lead Tip Bullets ....................................................................... 196 15. Rebated Boattails..................................................................... 205 16. Shotgun Slugs and Airgun Pellets........................................... 212 17. Bullet-Makers’ Tools ................................................................ 217 18. Custom Toolng ......................................................................... 228 19. Lubricants and Chemicals ...................................................... 240 20. Books and Software ................................................................ 248 21. Delivery Information .............................................................. 253 22. Warranty ................................................................................... 260 23. Non-Disclosure Agreements .................................................. 263 3
Page 1: Corbin Handbook of Bullet Swaging N
Page 6 and 7: in an arctic ice sheet from a low-f
Page 8 and 9: Instead, I try to teach the princip
Page 10 and 11: 10 2. What is Bullet Swaging? Befor
Page 12 and 13: A jacket is the “skin” of a bul
Page 14 and 15: Again, the steel rods that push the
Page 16 and 17: using a CSW die to adjust the weigh
Page 18 and 19: If you make a round nose bullet, a
Page 20 and 21: ebated boattail. Instead of making
Page 22 and 23: shoulder, and a 5/8-24 threaded ten
Page 24 and 25: a restocking fee or, if it is custo
Page 26 and 27: in almost everything in life, not j
Page 28 and 29: Today, you can hardly pick up a gun
Page 30 and 31: subjective, since one person might
Page 32 and 33: Obviously, it is much easier to pro
Page 34 and 35: lets, you may even get superior acc
Page 36 and 37: 6, or 2 to 1 in favor of the Giants
Page 38 and 39: ullet slightly elongated by the tig
Page 40 and 41: come 100 times cheaper and get 200
Page 42 and 43: mean that eating carrots causes you
Page 44 and 45: the scale has an accuracy rating of
Page 46 and 47: you can darn well bet that the micr
Page 48 and 49: 48 4. Tubing Jackets Before you can
Page 50 and 51: If you only want to make the jacket
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level competitive benchrest records
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of exposed lead or open tip, then t
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I’ll be glad to act as a buyer ag
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no set to the teeth so you get a mi
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e possible to just start to form a
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Where was I? Oh, yeah, I was gettin
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Step 4. Finish the Base: Now you ha
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jacket from internal lead pressure,
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ers. Fifteen hours might possibly g
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The edges need to be finished, so t
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The standard kit makes a .45 pistol
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dimensions for the punches and dies
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The redrawing and pinch trimming di
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once in a while, I found a short ru
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As you stroke the ram up and down t
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82 7. Draw Dies Drawing dies have a
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limit of the base material itself,
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A steel button is placed around the
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Can you draw down a solid copper bu
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damaged by hitting the die face. Th
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Do not operate the press with the d
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Making rimfire case jackets is one
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Right you are. The additional zinc
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The pistons rest upon a “rest pla
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The die screws into the top of the
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To eliminate these sources of weigh
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inches of rifling per side. Subtrac
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9. Swaging with a Reloading Press S
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not point form, lead tip, core swag
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The ones you can’t use are those
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The Pro-Swage Die The Pro-Swage is
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can do the same thing by using a we
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(Please note that PRO-SWAGE dies ar
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Please note also that you only need
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Paper-Patched Lead Bullets If you w
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flat punch to securely flatten the
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Fired .22 Case Jackets Making bulle
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You can have an O.T.H.P. or a L.T.H
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Corbin builds two models of power p
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alternative. Those who make “benc
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Mounting the CSP-1 Press The S-Pres
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of the S-Press (-S) dies. The stand
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The reloading press has a total ram
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You can easily tell if you are usin
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were designed without threads, for
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The Hydro-Mite is ideally suited to
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jacket material, and can lubricate,
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The CHP-1 press is built to do ever
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hurt General Motors and Ford that t
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Some people have modified the safet
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single-unit order and try to build
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it every time. It never fails that
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11. Lead, Base-Guard, Gas-Checked a
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is retracted from the die cavity wh
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mode, the ram travel is too long an
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either use the HP punch first, on t
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This double-swaging process does tw
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some of your 0.0025 thick cotton bo
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ness helps increase strength, of co
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ase as the internal punch. Since we
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172 12. Jacketed Semi-Wadcutters If
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Building sets from simple dies We
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closely, with a cavity in the end o
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make the edges form completely. Thi
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oattail cavity may build up to the
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That is, a short punch uses the tal
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If the HP punch is made large enoug
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When you form the ogive on the bull
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the jacket into the ogive portion o
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“dry” bullet to stick in the di
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Matching the bullet and die length
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wall annealed copper tubing) may pr
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14. Lead Tip Bullets The LT-1 lead
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1 die to the RBTO-4, you would crea
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ULD METAL TIPS The ULD or “Ultra
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To produce these special, high BC b
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difference in the steel versus alum
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V-shaped cone, acts like a big exte
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to leak out. In other words, the RB
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solid punch. The cost of one adjust
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16. Shotgun Slugs and Airgun Pellet
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The sharper inside angle near the o
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tional expansion is controlled or s
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a heel-type bullet. In this case, t
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Cannelure, knurling, and bullet gro
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and would probably work reliably wi
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The six hardened steel points are i
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part of the die screws into the flo
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228 18. Custom Tooling Corbin also
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What to expect Our work is limited
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cannot guess how it will perform ot
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But let us assume that, after havin
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We contact you, and give you a repo
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and finish it with diamond powders.
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19. Lubricants and Chemicals Corbin
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longer and is less aggressive in re
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flame-resistant woven gloves. If yo
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scoop or strainer. This is a “hot
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20. Books and Software Technical Bu
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HB-9-E You are reading it now! The
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DC-SALES Helps custom bullet makers
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whine, threaten, and cajole. The or
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Why prepayment for overtime? Well,
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whatever department name gets attac
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260 22. Warranty Corbin equipment i
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Any shape or dimension ordered to c
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only—are marketable at all. For u
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