MetalMouse wrote:
Yes bullets are the biggest cost factor in reloading ($0.12 each Berrys 124gr)
4gr T.G. ($0.02) + Primers ($0.05) = $0.07 is just amazing.
Someone is raking a huge profit when they charge over $20 for a box of 50 rns. ($0.45 each after taxes)
I bet manufacturers can produce it for less than $0.10 ea.
Do you cast with wheel weights by chance. Have not seen anyone who uses cast 9mm at the range.
The tire shops around here give away theirs to fishermen. Otherwise they had been throwing it in the dumpster.
I was not too pleased to have heard that.
Time to look into casting die manufacturer. Any recommendations?
MM
Yes - WW make perfect bullets for powder burners - as long as you don't get any zinc WW in the mix. Zinc will ruin the entire melt & can get into the pores in the pot as well and leach out for years, which ruins the pot as well. Zinc WW LOOK like zinc, feel like zinc and clink like zinc. Some guys still manage to miss them and then suffer the consequences. Do not put zinc in with your melt.
Again, WW make perfect handgun bullets. Too - WW bullets, normally in the 9 to 13 brinel range depending on who made them, can be hardened up to brinel 32 if you want. Dead soft copper is brinel 35. Lynotype, (Printing Type Metal) which is almost extinct now, is 22 brinel and considered VERY hard. You can harden ordinary WW bullets, up to brinel 32 quite easily - 34 if you want, but is more difficult due to the process & temperatures needed, being very precise.
The nice thing about really hard WW bullets, is they don't become brittle, like Lynotype, which is quite soft, in comparison - but brittle. Hardened WW bullets make terrific FMJ's - without needing jackets and cores.
Any handgun bullets can be case.
Truncated cone shaped bullets are most popular with 9mm shooters here. Many of the guys buy these from "The Bullet Barn" in the Fraser Valley - B.C. A box of 500 usually costs around the $50.00 range, or so- ie: about .010" each.
Casting your own can pay for the equipment in no time - if you shoot a lot.
Lee moulds are cheap and come in 6 cavity as well as double and single cavity.