JOHNNY WACKO

My friend Jack in filling 40 caseins with lead and using them for projectiles for his 44 mag.
Said you can load then aether way , rim in first or vice a versa.
Strange looking things to look at.He saids they are doing this on the site he goes too.
I think its weird,,,What do you think????

sheepdog

...thinkin' he better be careful...experiments can be dangerous...how ya been, Johnny???

Bountyhunter

He's using 40 cal cases?

deputy125

wow....had to think and look on that one..........

40 S&W cases filled with lead and then loading the 40 cartridge itself into a 44 mag case?

the 40 S&W case is widest i believe at the rim with a measure of .424".......a 44 mag is what at the throat? .429"???

sounds almost like a brass jacket version of a wadcutter design home brewed projectile.

JOHNNY WACKO

Yep,,He fills them with led and crimps them in the 44 mag after the powder and shoots them like a lead jacked bullets.



Sheepdog I'm doing OK I guess.Had a rough month and 1 more to come.Got my taxes paid and saved the farm from tax sale.But used my Aug.bill money so I'm still tight till i get them caught up.
Disability hearing on the 29.Hope it goes well..How have you been???

Bountyhunter

Your friend needs to get off the crack, Johnny.

deputy125

well a feller has to do something with all that glock fired 40 brass laying around that most are afraid to reload.........

Bountyhunter

Yeah, like blow up his gun and his face.

JOHNNY WACKO

Thats what i said 2 BH.He said there all doing it on the PA OPEN CARRY SITE.
Ill get some pictures next time he is here.He has a hand full in his pocket yesterday when he was here.Said they do 9MM into 357 Mag too.

deputy125

well......at least it won't lead up the barrel..........

JOHNNY WACKO

It will lead up the face ????Have to go google it..Must be info somewhere on it..

gunman42782

First I ever heard of anything like that. Shooters are a resoursefull lot. I know I fella at the range that takes fired .22LR brass and forms them into .223 bullets to reload. Time consuming, and the equipment to do it cost a lot of money!

Tom W.

http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/ ... 315.0.html

I've done it and it works ok. The next time I pour more bullets I'll make some more..

deputy125

appreciate the link........

Tom W.

And as an aside, you can load 45acp cases into .480 Ruger brass...

I haven't tried that as I sold my .480 like an idiot...

tx gun runner

Jacket bullet use copper alloy jackets , not brass . If you can not cast a bullet not to lead in your gun , maybe you shouldn't be casting bullets . The main reason for jacket is to use soft lead alloy to expand at low speed and not lead barrel . 40 cal brass is too thick to expand unless you hit a brick wall , plus it is very tuff on a barrel and raises chamber pressures super high with the same charge and bullet weight . Corbin use empty 22 lr brass to form jackets in 17 and 22 cal bullets , but that brass is thinner and softer than 40 cal brass and shot in rifles that will hold 50,000 psi plus . Some people like rolling the dice . If you season a barrel to shoot cast bullets it wouldn't lead up . I NEVER shoot a jacket bullet in my cast bullet guns .

Tom W.

And who said I can't cast bullets that don't lead? Who mentioned leading at all?

I'll be nice and say that if YOU don't want to try it, that's fine. It's not hard on the barrel, and I wasn't looking for expansion...

tx gun runner

You have your opinion and I have mine . I swage all my benchrest bullets in the 80's for matches . And Corbin never uses brass for there jacket . [only 22lr rifle] and they don't make dies to swage any cartridge brass down to make jackets either . There alot of new reloader need to see the other side of the coin to make a judgment call if they want to try it or not . I posted my opinion earlier and stand by it .

http://www.corbins.com/

tx gun runner

Before Berger and couple other custom bullet maker came about , making your own bullets from 22 brass or Cobin's jackets was the only way to go if you want to win a benchrest match . Factory stuff like Sierra , Hornady , Speer , ect couldn't hold a candle to hand made bullets .

Tom W.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=92482

Read up on it, it's pretty common.