30 Cal swage set

My Walnut hill 30 caliber swage set was sitting on my front porch when I got home from work. LOL Im like a teenager had to run downstairs and get busy. Made 60 180 gr Rebated boat tail open tip bullets tonight. Will finish up the other 40 tomorrow and see how the shoot out of my 06 this weekend Lord willing. I am still waiting on my tubing jacket making set so I can get some shorter jackets to make lead tip and I have a 6s flat point die for 30-30 just have to find shorter jackets.

Nice..... defintaly have to share some photos at some point in time.

Those are purty. What type jackets are you using? You said these are the open tips? I take it HP?

yes hollow points. Corbins call them open tips because the lead core is solid.

those are sierra jackets.

Reload3006 wrote:

Nice looking bullets. Some day I will scrape up the funds to do those myself.

Those look great!

Now that you have samples, I really need to test them! I really really do.

algunjunkie wrote:Now that you have samples, I really need to test them! I really really do.

PM me your addy I will see what I can do

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Very nice. Now I have something to look forward to after I get the 224 setup going.

If they fly as good as his .224 bullets....you'll be able to split atoms at 100 yards....well, almost.

thats awsome that is what i want to do eventually i would like to be able to swage for all the major hunting cal 30 cal 270 243 etc but thats a long ways and alot of overtime away lol!

finished up my 100 180gr hps .... them made 25 190 gr soft points.

very nice

Looks real nice!

These are awesome..... how much was the swage set? what press did you use??

these look fantastic....

i need a set of those dies....

I have Richard Corbins gear. RCE LLC. I have about 1400. in my 308 stuff. but i have 3 point form dies and 2 lead tip dies. you can get dies to make the 180s flat base for about 500 more or less. and you can get his sea girt press for around 300.

Reload3006 wrote:I have Richard Corbins gear. RCE LLC. I have about 1400. in my 308 stuff. but i have 3 point form dies and 2 lead tip dies. you can get dies to make the 180s flat base for about 500 more or less. and you can get his sea girt press for around 300.

man that is a lot of money invested in your gear.... way out of my price range...

but those bullets came out looking like a million dollars...

the more i look at them the more I want to do that to but, I want to do it with my Rockchucker.... I do not have room for another press....

you can get dr blackmons stuff for your rock chucker. get into it for about 550 give or take.

Those are really looking great. It is in my future hopes to have a 308 swage die as well for my soon up coming 308 purchase.

Hopefully this little jewel is what the cures all ailments

What you think Reload? What ogive by the picture would you guess this to be? I am hoping it will make a great point forming die....

Its hard to say my guess would be a 6 or 7s take it low and slow and then lap the devil out of them you should do ok.

looks like a 7 to me

nah, more like a 6.8735

sry couldn't help it, those look Awesome btw

I just got done running some numbers. It costs me about 26 cents to make a match grade BTHP I have about 1400 in my dies so saving an average of 5 dollars a hundred .. on the low end 3000 bullets and I am even as far as tooling costs are concerned. I will shoot that many in about 5 years or so. So after 5 years I will be saving. Not as bad as i thought it would be. It costs me about 26.00 to make a hundred of these bullets. If I happen to get cheap or free lead even less the most expensive thing is the copper jackets. my cost with shipping is around 180.00 Copper tubing maybe a little less. If you are looking at match grade projectiles they will run any where from 32.00 to 67.0 a box I believe the bullets I make can hold their own with any I can buy so the Pay back isnt as far fetched as one may think.