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Sunday morning musing... I was sitting here thinking about a future project, a .375 of some form that could be used for subsonic short distance shooting and started hunting for suitable jacketed bullets in the 200 grain range which did not result in a great deal for UK sourced bullets. So I started thinking about swaging and this set me wondering...

Could a 9x19 brass case be swaged to form a .375 bullet jacket and does anyone here have any experience of swaging jacketed bullets in general and have any views on such a project?

Why choose a jacketed bullet for "subsonic short distance shooting"?

I have swaged jacketed in the past, more from curiosity than need as cast costs far less especially in set up costs and delivers for most applications without much sophistication.

Perhaps if I was shooting thousands of rounds at long distance varminting in .22" - 25" calibres then swaging might be viable but otherwise no.

I used to swage 9mm using a Corbin die setup, I cast the core initially but afterwards cut lead wire on a home made guillotine . The jackets I bought in bulk from the USA . I could swage 130gr bullets so I could make major with my CZ75.

I have the Corbin swaging set up for .357" Rn/SWC/WC flat base or hollow base and optional base guard kit - all of which would cost over £1000 with the Corbin press theses days.

A man with your skills should be able to make a swaging die set Davy . Hardening the tool steel after polishing would be the biggest challenge , quite fancy swaging some .224 heavies using fired .22lr cases , hmmmm ?

Waterford103, you are right, building a set should not be too much of an issue, I will have to put some designs down on paper, I have a good idea on the initial swaging side which is a start.