Originally Posted by SBTCO
Geno, If you're willing to go to the trouble of milling down Barnes bullets why not just start with over size copper rod and swage down( or turn on your mini lathe) to .256 and mill from there?

Could be a new career for your "retirement".


SBTCO,

good ideas, and I might check out the cutting down copper rod one. Swaging though, of something as hard as copper rod might get expensive. I looked into some equipment a while back and was shocked at the price of something for that purpose.

Cutting bullets with a lathe from copper rod might be fun, but I'd have to figure out how to come up with a nose cavity that works, or perhaps some kind of jig to score the nose so it could expand some.

I'm not a machinist (I'm a fish dude) so the learning curve for just trimming some Barnes bullets will be somewhat steep. The cost of a mini lathe is reasonable, but If John can work his magic with the bullet mfgs, I may be able to get away from buying one of the lathes even!

Thanks for the ideas folks,

Geno

The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)

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