Unloading and reloading Glazer safety slugs

[Wolfsbane]

Corbon doesn't make a Glazer safety slug in a caliber I want. I checked with them and they have no plans to make one.

Does anyone have any experience with pulling the bullets and reloading them in another cartridge. I'm concerned because it isn't a solid slug, but rather "a copper jacket filled with a compressed load of either #12 or # 6 lead shot. It is then capped with a round polymer ball" according to their website.

I want to use the either the .32 auto or the .32 NAA slug reloaded into a 7.62x25 Tokarev.

I checked the specs for them. The ,32acp uses a .309 dia slug. The .32NAA uses .3125 dia. The 7.62x25 specs out with a .310 dia slug. All according to wikipedia.

I'm concerned with two things, the make up of the slug and the fact that it's 55gr as compared with the Tokarev's usual 85gr loading.

Anyone have experience with pulling any Glazer Safety Slugs and reloading them? I'd like to hear about it.

Glazer safety slug

 

[Odd Job]

Have a look at the MagSafe 7.62x25 rounds, could save some trouble if you can just buy them new.

 

[j. rap.]

I dont own a 7.62x25 but i do know that the glaser is light for caliber in 9mm luger as well

 

[rcmodel]

.32 auto or the .32 NAA slug reloaded into a 7.62x25 Tokarev.

So, you would pay $2.50+ bucks a round to get bullets to reload a TOK, and have no load data, or performance history to justify it???

Mercy Mercy!

I should start selling .30 cal bullet jackets with some epoxy & shot stuck in them!

rc

 

[Wolfsbane]

Why do you think I was asking if anyone else had done it?

I was letting that <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sucker</span> intrepid individual be the one to do the R&D work.

You're right. One could probably do a reasonable facsimile using hollow points, a drill press, some shot and a polyethylene candle for a lot less money.

So, you would pay $2.50+ bucks a round to get bullets to reload a TOK, and have no load data, or performance history to justify it???

Mercy Mercy!

I should start selling .30 cal bullet jackets with some epoxy & shot stuck in them!

rc

 

[Fisherdave10]

I don't think this endeavor is worth your time R&Ding it or the mountains of money you would have to pay just for the bullets. Expensive, fragmenting specialty bullets are garbage and are marketed in a deceiving way IMO. http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot23.htm

The 7.62x25 caliber already has very high velocities and a relatively light weight bullet. I recommend finding a decent traditional hollow point and working up a load with that. A high velocity, light weight expanding round will have low penetration.
As for bullet diameter, I don't have an answer for you. Maybe a smaller sized case mouth expander would help you there. I don't know how well a .309" bullet will shoot for you though.

 

[Twmaster]

Wolf, what is it you are trying to accomplish? Maybe knowing that would get you some useful suggestions?