Copper Jacketed Bullets

[Texasgrillchef]

My original question wasnt really about "saving" money which we all know isnt really so.

It was about an attempt to find an easier way to make copper jacket bullets that was for the most part cost effective. Meaning that the cost of projectile isnt $10 each for a 9mm bullet. (exaggerating to make a point). Also without a huge up front investment like it is to get into reloading! lol

I am always looking for and considering better ways to do just about anything. I enjoy brainstorming and thinking of different ways to do something that might be easier and or cheaper to do something. My ideas and thoughts may not always be good ones, but I do enjoy the non-critizing comments and input i get. It teaches me in many ways.

So to each and ever person that commented in this thread, i say thank you and I have learned quite a bit! Again thank you.

if anyone wishes to make additional comments i am all ears!

 

[forrest r]

At the end of the day it's hard to beat the simple cast and powder coated bullet. 9mm's for example, cast 9mm bullets from free range lead.


PC'ing bullets puts an excellent coat/jacket of polyester on them for me because I use the caveman simple shake and bake method of coating bullets with the dry powder/powder coating powder. Those cast bullets pictured above that have been pc'd.


It's nothing to have a 500 round+ range session with the pc'd bullets. No smoke from burning bullet lube (pc'd bullets can be shot at indoor ranges) no lube purge or build-up of lube in the chambers, cylinders or bbl.'s. Bo carbon ring built up from the burning lube. No leading, no lube built up in the reloading dies, nothing but range time. What that 1911 9mm looked like after a 500+ round ranger session with pc'd bullets.


No brushing needed that bbl cleaned up with 1 wet patch (hope's #9) and 1 dry patch. Granted that 9mm load wasn't hot by any means. It's a 25,000psi+ load that does 1100fps+ in that 5" bbl'd 1911. But 500+ pulls of the trigger and consistent accuracy with a 2 patch cleanup afterwards is huge. What a 686 looked like after a 200 round range session using plinking 38spl loads. The plinking load was a cast/coated 158gr bullet with 3.3gr of bullseye in 38spl cases that does +/- 900fps in that 686.


I haven't swaged any jacketed bullets for the revolvers since I started pc'ing cast bullets. Free range lead & 1# of pc powder will coat 10,000+ bullets for $10 a pound for the pc powder.

 

[1KPerDay]

I just hate the burning plastic smell of PC pills. Maybe I should get nose plugs as well as earplugs.

 

[forrest r]

I just hate the burning plastic smell of PC pills. Maybe I should get nose plugs as well as earplugs.

Absolutely, me too!!!!

I used to get a batch of pc'd bullets that would have that smell every now and then. When I switched to using a PID to control the toaster oven and bumped the cure time up to 20 minutes per batch. That "burning plastic" smell is a thing of the past. Turns out some of the batches were under cured.