mystery tool

[fallout mike]

I bought a lot of reloading stuff from someone last weekend and it had this tool in it. I have no idea what it is. Anyone have a clue?

 

[ReloaderFred]

Yep. It's a bullet ejector for the CH4D bullet swaging dies. It mounts to the top of the die, and after the bullet is swaged, you bring the handle forward and the off center cam pushes the ejector/nose punch down and ejects the bullet out the bottom of the die.

Wanna sell it?

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[fallout mike]

Does it come with the seating die set from CH4D? I can't find it on their site.

 

[ReloaderFred]

They're no longer offered, and CH4D is no longer offering their bullet swaging dies. They were made about 10 or 15 years ago, to the best of my knowledge.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[KansasSasquatch]

They're no longer offered, and CH4D is no longer offering their bullet swaging dies. They were made about 10 or 15 years ago, to the best of my knowledge.

Hope this helps.

Fred

Well I'll be........

I was just on their website a few months ago looking at swaging dies, its something I'd like to get into. They were still selling the swaging dies back the but sure enough they don't even list them now. Any idea why and when they stopped selling/making them?

 

[ReloaderFred]

The current owners of CH4D were selling old stock from the previous owners for many years. Sales were relatively slow for a long time, but have picked up in the last couple of years because people want to become more self sufficient during shortages.

When they sold out of the popular calibers, they made an attempt at making a good size run of .44 caliber swaging dies, but when they sent them for heat treating, they all warped. They made the business decision to put their efforts into dies that they sell a lot of, so they discontinued the swaging dies altogether. It's unknown if they'll make them again sometime in the future.

Hope this helps.

Fred