HB-9 updated text (PDF) - Corbin Bullet Swaging

1. Introduction to Bullet Swaging
Good morning! I’m Dave Corbin, and for over 40 years I’ve had the
second best job in the world: I help people make the state-of-the art bullets
that you’ve read about in the gun magazines. Nearly every custom
bullet maker started with equipment developed at the Corbin die-works.
They have the best job in the world!
All you have to do is scan the pages of nearly any magazine catering
to handloaders, and you’ll see dozens of ads from our clients; the articles
are constantly talking about the bullets our clients make, and the major
ammunition firms are buying the bullets made on Corbin equipment for
use in their premium ammo. There has been a lot more research and
development that you don’t read about, because it isn’t intended for the
general shooting public. I can now include a small amount of that information
in this edition.
Corbin Manufacturing publishes an e-book called the “World Directory
of Custom Bullet Makers” listing hundreds of individuals and firms
whose names you may recognize if you are familiar with handloading.
When I read the list, I remember someone’s enthusiasm for the new business
venture they were able to start, thanks to the power of bullet swaging.
Olympians and world champions in every field of firearms sports,
from benchrest to air gun competition, using everything from paperpatched
blackpowder bullets to custom fin-stabilized shotgun slugs, have
come to the die-works where we have toiled for the last quarter century
and into the first quarter of this one, some just to improve their alreadyoutstanding
achievements, and some to help others become better shooters
by manufacturing new ideas in how a given bullet should look and be
constructed.
Engineers from the Department of the Army, Air Force Armament
Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, DuPont, Northrop, Lockheed, Martin-Marietta
and other defense-related organizations have visited us over
those years, sometimes sketching ideas on napkins during lunch. Tools
and designs we worked on are in use today all over the world, wherever a
long range, high precision projectile or a very special purpose bullet that
could only be made efficiently by the high precision techniques of swaging,
is needed for the job.
Whether it is protecting an important public figure at long range or
picking a pine cone from the top of an experimental tree, whether it is
surveying a dense mountain jungle with remotely launched flare projectiles
designed for vertical firing stability, or stitching mirror-based bullets
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