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dodgyrog wrote:Very nice too.
Corbin charge a fortune for these dies.

Around $800 a set with a disgusting wait of around two years too and the de-rim die is extra!

ovenpaa wrote:Lovely work, very good indeed. What materials did you use for the dies?

Basically tool steel as I needed to be able to do all the heat treatment too. It is all a quite 'involved' process to make them!

I have been building some Anvil pins for dies recently and finding the right material has not been easy.

22-250 ready to rock'n'roll...

Some smart oomans on here...

A de-rim die for preparing rimfire cases to be swaged for 6mm cal.

WANT!

I saw videos on someone making these for plinking last year sometime, and wondered how involved it would be just to make the bullets using these, nevermind the actual dies to make them!

What kind of accuracy do you get from them? good enough for 600 yards? or more of a plinking round (1-300yards)?

TattooedGun wrote:WANT!

I saw videos on someone making these for plinking last year sometime, and wondered how involved it would be just to make the bullets using these, nevermind the actual dies to make them!

What kind of accuracy do you get from them? good enough for 600 yards? or more of a plinking round (1-300yards)?

Not got around to shooting any yet...
Have 'bonded' some, they turned out really nice!

sorry, what do you mean by bonded some?

Basically drop the lead core in the jacket put couple drops of flux in with the core then gas mark 15* ....
Basically the core gets soldered (bonded) to the jacket, makes for a tougher bullet. I imagine they will work nicely for Munties etc without huge meat damage. I'm making 57grain bonded core for my 22-250.

* joking, 375ºC for 20 mins.