Make Your Own Jacketed Bullets

Casting your own bullets gives you the added benefit of being able to make any size shape and variation you want.

Make your own jacketed bullets.

Shop our pistol and rifle bullet swaging jackets to increase your accuracy shoot more and save money by manufacturing your own custom bullets. Shop our pistol and rifle bullet swaging jackets to increase your accuracy shoot more and save money by manufacturing your own custom bullets. The video above shows how to make your own hollow point bullets with a case trimmer and a bit of skill. Cores seem to be the biggest concern cast bullets work well enough.

Just chuck the round and live rounds are ok despite what the nervous nellies may tell you in a drill press and drill no more than 2 3s down the bullet length. Make your own bullets with copper bullet swaging jackets from centerxbullets. There are other types but the copper jacket represents the bulk of the market. I d also make the hole no more than half the bullet diameter.

Make your own bullets with copper bullet swaging jackets from centerxbullets. Just because someone is selling a 1200 setup to swage bullets doesn t mean you have to buy use them when 30 worth of used dies or re using what you already have will make all the jacketed swaged bullets you care to make. While far less common than casting lead bullets there are people who make their own jacketed bullets. There is a lead core to give it the mass and a copper jacket to hold it together before and after it hits.

A modern bullet is normally two parts.