Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Canada A brief explanation of how bullets are made - with pix -- Pt. 2

The next step is point forming. This will add some shape to it. The bullet is fed into the PF die open end first and the punch pushes it all the way into the die.



The bullet comes out almost ready to shoot. It mics at .224 inches, but the tip is not cleaned up. That's next.



Like the previous step, the bullet is fed into the tip forming die meplat first. The tip will come out looking like a protected point.





And that's it! There's some lube to wipe off, but the bullet is now ready to load.